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I called Ndella, my best friend. We talked on Facetime.
It was my birthday and she congratulated me.
We talked about meeting up and what to do.
I'd made plans for us to enjoy the nice weather.
We were meant to have brunch and celebrate my 20th birthday.
We talked for a few minutes. Then, I heard loud bangs.
Several loud bangs. Then, it went completely quiet.
"Ndella, what happened? Ndella!"
Then I heard her husband say, "My wife's been shot!"
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
It's the middle of the night, August 28, 2019.
In Vällingby in west Stockholm, constable Niklas and his colleague
have just started work.
My colleague and I drive around in the center of Vällingby.
We discuss how we've slept and how we feel.
We have a few night shifts together. This is the first one.
We meet a car. We both react because it's driving unusually fast.
We stop in the middle of the road and block the car's way.
When Niklas and his colleague step out of the car
they hear an alert about gunfire.
They're only a few kilometers away from the location.
The people in the vehicle we stopped could be involved in the shooting.
The culprits could be right in front of us.
Amina Ceesay is at home and has just called emergency services.
She suspects that her best friend has been shot.
I ran down to my neighbor
while I had emergency services on the phone.
I was in shock. I passed on the phone because I couldn't talk.
I couldn't say my personal identity number because I was stressed.
By the stopped vehicle, Niklas and his colleague
cautiously investigate who's in the car
and if they could be involved with the shooting.
They receive more radio alerts about the shooting.
It keeps buzzing in our ears. The district control room
asks us to release the vehicle and go to the crime scene.
We mentally prepare for being the first to arrive.
It's likely that we'll find a wounded person.
We might also meet armed culprits who we'll have to deal with.
When we arrive, we park here on the street.
People shout from their balconies, "It was in the courtyard!"
We are very security minded. We draw our guns when we enter.
There's a cloud of gunpowder smoke in the entrance. It's a sharp smell.
We go upstairs. There's a door ajar.
I see a woman on the floor in the hallway.
There's a man sitting over her. The woman seems lifeless.
The man screams for help. He's trying to wake her up.
He's trying to help her and he's crying.
He repeats that it's his wife. "My wife, help her!"
I ask, "Where did they shoot from? Where are the culprits?"
He points towards the courtyard.
Niklas asks his colleague, who's in the stairway,
to go outside and secure the courtyard.
At the same time, Niklas enters the apartment.
It looks like a bomb has exploded in the apartment.
The door is loose, you can hear water gushing.
The power is out. It's dark. Everything looks broken.
It only takes about 30 seconds for the second police car to arrive.
They come inside. I get support from another colleague.
We take the woman by her arms and pull her out to the stairway.
It's light, so we can work there. The woman is severely injured.
She's been shot several times,
primarily from her stomach and down.
There's a great risk that she won't survive.
The woman is rushed to Karolinska Hospital.
Niklas is with her in the ambulance. He helps keep her alive
all the way to surgery where the hospital staff take over.
The woman's next of kin have arrived at the hospital.
After a short while, someone comes out and tells us
that she can't be saved.
We go to the reception to meet her parents and a friend.
She'd called the police to report that her friend had been shot.
We take them to a hospital room.
We prepare to tell them the news.
We have to deliver the worst possible news.
I used to call her Queen Ndella.
She was special and clever. She was going to become an actress
and make movies.
When I heard that she was dead,
I couldn't stand.
I slid down or fell over. I'm not sure how I fell.
She was gone, but I was on the floor.
I didn't cry, I was just quiet. I was in shock.
I left the hospital, got in a cab and went home.
The crime is classified as murder.
A check is run on the car Niklas and his colleague stopped.
The people in the vehicle weren't involved with the shooting.
The head of investigation, Ville Paloheimo, goes through
what could have happened at the crime scene.
They ran up to the window and shot into the apartment.
The young woman was shot several times.
The window was covered,
which indicates indifference about who was on the other side.
The intention was to kill this person
and they were indifferent about who else could get hurt.
This kind of deed displays brutality. It's a statement.
Alternatively, you're so scared
and have so much respect for the person you attack
that you use this kind of excessive violence.
Ndella Jack is 18 years old. The morning after the shooting
she's due to start her final year in school.
She wanted to be a police officer or a criminologist.
Two days prior, she came home from her wedding in The Gambia.
At first glance, it's a mystery why someone would want to kill her.
As a person, Ndella was the happiest, most positive
and thoughtful person I've ever met.
She faced all obstacles with positivity.
She could solve all our problems. She only saw solutions.
As soon as there was a disaster or a shooting she said,
"It's crazy. We need to change this."
Ndella loved people. She wanted to help everyone.
She pushed us girls to study,
get our lives sorted and start working.
She was the best friend you could ever dream of.
She said she was getting married. As her friend, I was happy for her.
She was really happy.
I was the inquiry leader.
The first course of action was to interview all the witnesses.
It was how it usually is with witnesses of special incidents.
People experience situations differently.
They were in agreement that there were two culprits
who used automatic firearms and were masked.
They fled the scene towards the parking lot.
An hour after the brutal murder, a police dog is at the scene.
It searches the escape route observed by witnesses.
The dog soon finds something interesting.
The dog indicated biological evidence from humans.
It clearly indicated a glove.
Smells are usually perishable.
We didn't think the glove had been there for long.
It ended up there around the time of the crime.
The glove is sent for analysis at the National Forensic Centre.
Police hearings are held with the local residents.
A witness has managed to film a car
leave the parking lot and drive towards Bergslagsvägen
just after the shooting.
First, we tried to figure out what brand the car was.
We didn't manage. It was similar to many other cars.
There was a tree in the way and it was dark.
It wasn't a perfect film, but at least it gave us a good idea
of some details on the getaway car. We could tell
that the side mirrors were silver, which isn't very common.
At the shooting, Ndella's husband is also in the apartment.
He's just gone to the bathroom.
Ndella's husband was distraught during the first hearing.
He told us concretely and openly about the incident.
I was washing my face and brushing my teeth.
I heard a shot and wondered what the hell it was.
I hurried to the door, to the room where Ndella was.
Then I heard the noise again. I saw flames from the window.
I ducked, ran in and grabbed her foot.
I pulled her off the bed.
I saw that she'd been shot and was losing consciousness.
So, I started to breathe in her mouth.
He was courageous and painted a vivid picture
of what he'd done when he pulled her off the bed.
He did mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and tried to save his wife.
He told us straight away that he was the target.
Ndella's husband is known to the police.
He's been in criminal gang circles.
He's known for being aggressive and ruthless.
He's considered greatly capable of violence.
He's been convicted of robbery,
threat to a public servant and attempted manslaughter.
Ndella's husband's gang consisted of
his old childhood acquaintances from Brandbergen and Dalen.
There were also some new acquaintances
that I don't know how he met.
Connections are often made in prison. He'd spent a lot of time in prison.
They were all known to the police, but not the constellation.
Ndella's husband quickly told us
that he was the target of the shooting.
He didn't want to say what might be the reason.
The preliminary investigation was very broad.
Ndella's husband was involved in several conflicts.
We investigated a conflict between Ndella's husband
and a rival gang in the neighboring suburb.
We kept in mind that Ndella could be the target.
We didn't know what had happened.
We also investigated a lead about jealousy.
There was an ex-girlfriend who could possibly be...
We had information that she could be involved.
Because Ndella's husband didn't tell us anything,
we had to assume that either of them could be the target.
There is a worry that the husband may seek revenge.
He's monitored and his calls are tapped.
They realize that he could be the key to finding the culprits.
Criminals don't usually tell us about their conflicts.
They try to solve them without us.
We were worried that he might seek revenge.
So, we listened to his phone calls
and tried to make sure that nothing happened.
We discovered during the investigation
that he'd made his own inquiries the following day.
He'd asked the neighbors what they'd seen.
If they'd seen the culprits and what they looked like.
He received similar statements from witnesses as us.
Descriptions of the culprits.
He knew a fair amount about what had happened.
He made his own inquiries,
which indicates that he didn't know who had tried to shoot him.
WhatsApp messages on Ndella's husband's phone
revealed that he was looking for a bag.
The bag contained, as he said,
"Two large ones with 30 in each."
We interpreted it as a bag with weapons.
He tried to get hold of a weapon. He wanted to protect himself,
but perhaps he also wanted to avenge Ndella. It was clear.
He suspected that a member of a rival gang
had murdered her. The rumor spread in criminal circles.
The rumor reached the rival gang member.
He sent Ndella's husband a text message.
He assured him that he was innocent and had nothing to do with it.
He wanted to meet and talk about it.
It's September 8, ten days after the shooting in Råcksta.
A monitoring patrol see the husband
get into a cab on Ringvägen at 8.17 p.m.
He's with two other men. The cab drives south.
It's not always easy to keep an eye on a person
who goes around in cars, sometimes different cars.
It's not easy.
They lost sight of him when they monitored him.
Losing sight of him that evening turns out to be a mistake.
Half an hour later there's an alert from Alphyddan in Nacka.
When we were assigned the job, we were at the police station.
We'd just come back from a job.
The inspector on duty said,
"Get armed and go to Alphyddan. It's like the Wild West."
The evening we're assigned the job... For an outdoor job,
it's the worst possible scenario for forensic technicians.
It's rainy, very windy and dark.
We arrive at Alphyddevägen.
It turns out that the shooting was at a cul-de-sac.
We start there.
The bad weather conditions could ruin possible evidence.
All the rounds are in one area by the cul-de-sac.
They're all from an automatic firearm, a Kalashnikov.
A cab is found further away.
It's damaged by gunshots and has crashed into concrete.
The cab driver was wounded and in the car.
The people had left the car.
It's the same cab that the police had lost sight of.
The driver's injuries are serious, but not life-threatening.
The passengers fled the scene, but are found nearby.
One of them is Ndella's husband.
They're interrogated and reveal that they were on their way to a meeting.
They drive up the road and turn at a roundabout.
On their way back, they meet a car.
The people in the car have hoods on.
Ndella's husband suspects something and tells the driver to drive away.
By then, the car has stopped.
At least two people jump out and start shooting at the cab.
Many of the shots go that way and hit the buildings.
At building 23, a shot goes through the window
and hits someone in the head.
Despite being shot in the head, the man in the apartment survives.
Five apartments have been hit by stray bullets.
They're on the second to sixth floor.
From where the rounds are on the ground,
it's 115 meters to the property.
It's the third building on the right from the cul-de-sac.
If you've held an automatic firearm, you know that it's a powerful weapon.
Small changes of angle or height, when you're 100 meters away,
can result in hitting a completely different target than intended.
The cab drives off. The driver gets shot.
Somehow, Ndella's husband holds the wheel and steers the car
while the driver accelerates.
Then, they crash nearby.
That's when we realized that he was under serious threat.
Somebody really wanted to kill him.
There was no doubt that he was the target.
It wasn't Ndella.
September 11, 2019, is Ndella Jack's funeral.
Many of her friends and relatives have gathered.
The funeral is surrounded by a large deployment of police.
We were worried that there might be another attack
against Ndella's husband.
He was going to attend the funeral, so security measures were taken.
The police were there to ensure that nothing happened.
There were officers in every bush, but it was a precaution.
They weren't in the way. They were spread out.
The funeral was beautiful. It had rained all day.
When the funeral began, the sky opened and the sun shone.
It went from rain to shine. We felt Ndella's presence.
Due to the second attack, there are two crime scenes.
The police are hopeful that it'll help them find Ndella's murderer.
Initially, we worked on the basis that it was the same people
involved in both shootings in Råcksta and in Nacka.
We couldn't be sure until we had a connection.
The only connection we knew of was the target.
Two days after the shooting in Nacka we received a tip from the public.
After the shooting, cars had driven towards Svindersvik.
It's a couple of hundred meters from where the shooting was.
We wanted to search the area
and the woods close by with police dogs.
They found an automatic firearm, a revolver
and a license plate that still had tape on it.
The license plate had recently been stolen nearby.
The evidence is sent off to be analyzed.
The police shoot with the weapons to compare the ammunition
with the rounds found in Råcksta. The results are promising.
The same automatic firearms had been used.
We could focus on that it was the same people
who had targeted Ndella's husband in Råcksta and in Nacka.
Soon after the shooting, a patrol had observed
an Audi that was badly parked.
The note was added to the investigation.
The car had been there for a while and got a parking ticket.
The parking company had photographed the car.
On the photo, there was visible tape on the license plate.
It was the same kind of tape we found on the license plate
that was with the weapons in a bush.
They go to where the car was, but the car is gone.
They begin to search for the car.
The car is used by one of Ndella's husband's friends.
He drives around in the car.
The police focus on the silver Audi and the male driver.
We monitor the car. Not a lot happens, so
we decide to use an entrapment to get evidence.
We go public in Efterlyst and say we're looking for a car like that.
We claimed that it was the culprit's getaway car.
We hoped that he'd try to get rid of the car,
which could be considered an indication that it was used.
We believe that the weapons were dumped soon after the crime.
They didn't want to get caught with weapons in the car.
The car is a silver Audi Avant A4 from about 2005.
Before and after the shooting it's been on Alphyddevägen.
It's the same car as the friend's.
Shortly after the TV show, the car was set on fire.
The car's owned by a man called Ian.
Police have come across his name previously in the investigation.
Ian is one of Ndella's husband's friends.
He was a best man at the wedding in The Gambia.
Hearings with the wedding guests and Ndella's husband's cell phone
reveal that their friendship isn't entirely straightforward.
Ndella and her future husband
decided to go to The Gambia and get married.
They invited their friends.
There's a conflict and some of the friends leave early.
The conflict is about Ndella's husband and his friends.
Ndella's husband attacked one of his friends.
When Ndella and her husband return from The Gambia,
one of his friends wants to meet and talk about it.
They meet at what was called El Cocodrilo on Södermalm.
It's evident from the messages that the meeting gets out of hand.
They fall out even more.
Someone pulls a gun at the meeting.
It's also clear that Ndella's husband is very upset by this.
He wants an apology from the person.
Finally, he says that if he doesn't get an apology,
he'll hunt them down until the day he dies.
In October we get an answer from the National Forensic Centre.
One of the rounds from Nacka has Ian's DNA on it.
The DNA match on the cartridge is a huge breakthrough.
To find DNA on a round
that's heated up when it's fired is very unusual.
Usually, those traces are burnt away.
There was also a DNA match on a glove found in Råcksta.
Traces of an igniter were found on the glove,
which made it interesting for the investigation.
You can't date the traces, but they are volatile.
It's interesting because the glove was near a weapon when it was fired.
The igniter traces matched ammunition
that automatic firearms use.
Eventually, we found out that Ian's DNA was in several places.
The police investigated if more of those involved
were Ndella's husband's friends.
They try to find out if the possible getaway car,
filmed by a witness in Råcksta, could be connected to anyone.
We looked for the type of car amongst the friends.
We could confirm that one friend
had owned a car that matched the car on the film.
We found the car at a scrapyard. It had been set on fire.
That indicated that it had been used at the shooting in Råcksta.
The car is a Honda CR-Z.
It was set on fire shortly after it was publicly declared wanted.
It's found in Södertälje harbor,
not far from where the friend lives with his girlfriend.
The person the clues point towards is called Ahmad.
He was also a best man at the wedding in The Gambia.
We could hone in even more on the conflict in The Gambia.
The difficulty was that there were many conflicts around the husband.
We needed a lot of evidence
to rule out other theories, which is quite unusual.
But two witnesses in Råcksta told us
that they'd heard the culprits shout "Ahmed" or "Ahmad".
The culprits shouted at him
because he was probably the driver.
They wanted him to drive up or start the car.
It seemed clear that Ian and Ahmad were involved
in the attacks against Ndella's husband.
Ian and Ahmad are arrested in the beginning of November 2019.
Related to the arrests, the police find more evidence
that prove that Ian was involved in the shooting in Nacka.
When Ian was arrested, his cell phone was confiscated.
It was revealed that there'd been a search.
In Google Maps, the phone had gone from the site of the shooting
all the way to where the car was parked.
The person who had the phone knew how the vehicle had traveled.
New evidence is also found on Ahmad's phone.
It's information about Ahmad's girlfriend's car,
which they suspect was involved in the deadly shooting in Råcksta.
Two days after the shooting in Råcksta,
the Honda CR-Z was set on fire.
A few hours later, there was a text message conversation
between Ahmad's girlfriend and Ian.
She's clearly upset, but the reason isn't clear.
But she's clearly angry at Ahmad and Ian.
We think that the conversation was about her car
that was set on fire after the incident.
The car meant a lot to Ahmad's girlfriend.
It was a gift from a relative and she was upset that it was burned.
It's not clear, but around the time it was burned,
he was kicked out of her home.
Ahmad and Ian deny all accusations in interrogations.
In this kind of case they usually say, "No comments."
But neither of them said that.
They both said that during the shooting in Råcksta
they were at Ian's place.
Finally, Ian and Ahmad are prosecuted
for the murder of Ndella and attempted murder of her husband.
The trial commences April 20, 2020, at Solna District Court.
What can you say about that your phone was off
during both the incidents in Råcksta and in Nacka?
I can't say anything.
- Have you been to Alphyddan? - No.
- No? Do you know the place? - I haven't been there.
We've found your DNA, both on a round in Nacka
and on a glove in Råcksta. Can you explain that?
I used gloves like that before The Gambia.
There has been ammunition in the circles I moved in before.
I haven't touched weapons, ammunition
or anything criminal after the trip to The Gambia.
I've distanced myself from that lifestyle.
How did your DNA end up at the crime scenes?
I'm not here to assess possibilities.
I can't comment on that.
We weren't sure if Ian and Ahmad would be found guilty in court,
even though we were convinced that they were the culprits.
We know that sometimes
the evidence is valued individually, instead of the whole picture.
So, the Honda. Whose car is that?
That's my ex-girlfriend's dad's car.
It was set on fire two days after the shooting in Råcksta.
Can you tell me about that?
I received a phone call, or a message or something.
I think it was a phone call.
There was a fire by the coastguard. Several cars were on fire.
- I told... - What happened next?
She kicked me out. She was furious. It was impossible to talk to her.
- Because you set fire to her car? - No.
You've made that up. There's no evidence at all.
No, you've made it up.
The verdicts on May 20, 2020, are what they feared.
Ian is found guilty of complicity in the attempted murder in Nacka,
but both Ian and Ahmad are found not guilty for the murder of Ndella.
It wasn't clear that they'd be found guilty.
We hoped that the prosecutor would lodge an appeal.
The District Court found a flaw in the investigation.
We hadn't compared the footage of the getaway car in Råcksta
with other tips we'd received about cars.
The car on the film could be different types of cars.
An appeal is lodged to the Court of Appeal.
The investigators receive help from a team of analysts
from the National Operations Department.
They collect material from all cars that could match the getaway car.
They compare rims, mirrors, lights and other details
of different types of cars with the suspected getaway car.
Some details of the car stood out as characteristic.
Other cars could be ruled out.
But the Honda CR-Z couldn't be ruled out.
There's only about 20 of those cars in Sweden.
We contacted the other owners and could conclude
that only the car Ahmad drove could've been at the crime scene.
The District Court also thought
that there wasn't enough investigation
into when the glove ended up at the parking in Råcksta.
That point was just clarified.
The area was closed and a dog handler was called in.
He perceived the glove as unmoved
and that it had got there recently.
It had to do with the weather. If it had been there for longer,
it would've been exposed to the weather.
The Court of Appeal's verdict is different.
With the new evidence Ian and Ahmad are sentenced,
for complicity in murder and in attempted murder,
to 16 and 12 years in prison respectively.
But when the verdict falls, Ahmad has disappeared.
He's been on the run for months, chased by the FAST team.
They're specialized in finding and arresting fugitives.
This evening he was arrested in Trosa by the regional police
and a task force from Stockholm.
Ahmad Al-Shewani has been handed over to the Prison Service.
I don't think that this conflict was serious to begin with.
But we never found out what the conflict was about.
The police did a great job.
I'm less pleased with the fact that we don't know
who fired the shots in either of the cases.
They were found guilty of complicity in both cases.
So that question is still unanswered.
Ndella's friend Amina will always associate her birthday
with what happened to Ndella.
I can't be positive when something so awful has happened.
But it's our day.
Every anniversary, I think that it's mine and Ndella's day.
I can't describe how much I miss her.
Subtitles: Hannah Jerming-Havill Iyuno-SDI Group