Swedish police said the suspected perpetrator was found dead nearby a short time later. They were treating the incident as double attempted murder and were not looking for anyone else in relation to the shootings.<\/p>\n
Police confirmed the man and girls knew each other, but would not comment on their identity as it was an active investigation. <\/p>\n
However local media are reporting the alleged shooter was the girls\u2019 father, while the Herald understands the man was from New Zealand. <\/p>\n
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed it was in contact with the family of a New Zealand citizen, but would not comment further for privacy reasons.<\/p>\n
In March last year police began looking into allegations that the man had abused his ex-wife, but that investigation closed after one month, Swedish newspaper Sm\u00e5landsposten reported.<\/p>\n
The couple had been married for around 20 years, but had been living apart for more than two years, according to the newspaper. <\/p>\n
Their divorce had been finalised last week, despite several attempts by the man to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n
A source told Sm\u00e5landsposten that social services had held a family meeting last Monday, with the mother voicing concerns about the children\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish police said the suspected perpetrator was found dead nearby a short time later. They were treating the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1443,3225,207904,9218,149004,49325,13978,4731,3602,2209,13838,5511,194,440,1073,6178,111,43,139,69,1321,7819,10117,1072,5778,1361,165,8222,4767,3608,4741],"class_list":["post-478940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-about","tag-according","tag-aggressively","tag-before","tag-behaving","tag-dad","tag-daughters","tag-days","tag-earlier","tag-father","tag-girls","tag-just","tag-kiwi","tag-local","tag-media","tag-mother","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-services","tag-shooting","tag-shot","tag-social","tag-sweden","tag-that","tag-their","tag-warned","tag-weekend","tag-were","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}