Swedish rapper Einar, who won awards and topped charts in the Scandinavian country, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said as police hunted for suspects.

Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who has topped the country's charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said Friday as police hunted for suspects.

Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who has topped the country's charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said Friday as police hunted for suspects.

STOCKHOLM: Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who has topped the country’s charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said Friday as police hunted for suspects. The 19-year-old Einar, who raps in Swedish, was the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden in 2019. He was shot several times outside an apartment building shortly before 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) on

Stockholm  - Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who topped the country’s charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said Friday as police

The award-winning rapper, who was abducted and assaulted by rival rappers last year, was shot dead in Stockholm. According to Swedish media, the shooting was gang-related.

Swedish rapper Einar has reportedly been shot dead in Stockholm aged 19. He's believed to have died after being gunned down in the city on Thursday night

Einar was also kidnapped and attacked by rival rappers last year, amid Sweden having one of the highest rates of gun crime in Europe.

Award-winning Swedish rapper Einar, who has topped the country's charts, was shot and killed in Stockholm, police and media said Friday as police hunted for suspects.

Einar, 19, died in a fatal shooting on Thursday evening, local time, that a Swedish broadcaster linked to gang activity.

Swedish rapper Einar, who won awards and topped charts in the Scandinavian country, was shot and killed late Thursday in Stockholm, police and media said as police hunted for suspects.

Einar, one of Sweden's most popular rappers, was shot dead in Stockholm late on Thursday, heightening outrage over gang-related violence that has afflicted the Nordic country in recent years. Einar, 19, whose real name was Nils Gronberg, was killed in the upmarket Stockholm suburb of Hammarby Sjostad, and no arrests had been made so far. In a previous incident last year, Einar was abducted and assaulted by rival rappers. "A young life has been extinguished, and I understand that he meant a lot to many young people. It is tragic," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told TT.