Swedish School Stabbing Was Racist Hate Crime, Confirm Police

"We can confirm that this was a racially motivated hate crime," police chief Niclas Hallgren told Swedish Radio on Friday.

"We have reached this conclusion on the basis of what we found when we searched his apartment, his behavior during the act, and how he selected his victims."

 The Swedish newspaper Expressen has identified the 21-year-old suspect in the knife attack as Anton Lundin Pettersson. Pettersson reportedly attacked 

The suspect was shot by the police, and later died in a local hospital. A 17-year-old student and a 21-year-old teaching assistant died in the attack, and a 14-year-old boy and 41-year-old man remain hospitalized and are in critical condition.