List of shootings in Sweden

This is a highly incomplete list of shootings in Sweden, ordered chronologically. Seventeen people were killed by firearms in Sweden in 2011, but by 2017, more than 300 shootings had resulted in 41 deaths and more than 100 people injured. By 2022, the number of deaths had risen to 60.

• 4 March 1961: Kungälv school shooting. A 17-year-old male shot seven students, killing one, and fled the scene. Later he surrendered to the police and was sentenced to compulsory treatment.
• 28 February 1986: Assassination of Olof Palme. The victim was the Prime Minister of Sweden, aged 59.
• 11 June 1994: Mattias Flink murdered five women, a bicyclist and a security guard.
• 4 December 1994: Tommy Zethraeus killed three women and a bouncer. They were all shot at the entrance to a restaurant.
• 22 or 23 July 1997: Keillers Park murder: The victim was Josef ben Meddour, aged 36.
• 28 May 1999: Malexander murders: Swedish policemen Olov Borén and Robert Karlström were killed by bank robbers.
• 10 January 2004: Knutby murder: Alexandra Fossmo was killed. Her employer, 30-year-old IT entrepreneur Daniel Linde, was shot in the head and chest, but survived.
• Between June 2003 and October 2010: Serial killer Peter Mangs shot 15 immigrants in Malmö, killing 3 and injuring 12.
• 18 March 2015: The 2015 Gothenburg pub shooting was a gang-related shooting in which a 25-year-old said to be a leading figure in a local gang and a 20-year-old bystander was killed.
• 4 February 2025: The 2025 Risbergska school shooting in Örebro at Campus Risbergska was a school shooting in which a 35-year-old man shot and killed 10 students and injured 12 others before committing suicide.
• 29 April 2025: Three people were killed in Uppsala shooting on the eve of the Walpurgis festival.
• 14 May 2025: one person was shot and killed outside a restaurant in the Boländerna district of Uppsala.