Award-winning teenage rapper fatally shot in Sweden

The scene of the shooting in Stockholm (Henrik Montgomery/TT via AP)

An award-winning 19-year-old Swedish rapper was fatally shot in the country’s capital in an incident that media reports suggested could be gang-related.

The rapper Einar was hit by several bullets in the Hammarby suburb south of central Stockholm and died at the scene late on Thursday, police spokesman Ola Osterling told the Swedish news agency TT.