A prominent Swedish lawyer who represented US rapper ASAP Rocky in a recent assault case has reportedly been shot multiples times in Stockholm.<\/p>\n
Police were called to a shooting in Kungsholmen at around 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Friday.<\/p>\n
Paramedics took one person, a man in his 50s, to hospital with gunshot wounds, police said.<\/p>\n
The Swedish Bar Association has confirmed the victim is Henrik Olsson Lilja,\u00a0CBS News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mr Lilja is reported to be in a serious but stable condition and one suspect has been arrested.<\/p>\n The lawyer represented ASAP Rocky after the rapper’s arrest in Stockholm over an assault during a street brawl on 30 June.<\/p>\n On its website,\u00a0Stockholm Police described the shooting as “an isolated incident with no known connection to recent violent crimes”<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mr Lilja was shot in the head and chest at his block of flats and then called the police himself with a neighbour’s phone,\u00a0according to Swedish newspaper Expressen<\/a>.<\/p>\n A witness told the paper Mr Lilja was shot while wrestling with a man on the ground.<\/p>\n The gunman, who fled the scene in a black SUV, is still at large, the paper reported.<\/p>\n A suspect has been arrested and several people were questioned in connection with the shooting, which is being investigated as an “attempted murder”, police said.<\/p>\n The suspect in custody was a woman, also a senior lawyer, who had connections with Mr Lilja, Expressen reported.<\/p>\n Mr Lilja initially represented ASAP Rocky in the assault case, but was reportedly replaced by defence lawyer Slobodan Jovicic for the trial.<\/p>\n Last month ASAP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers, was found guilty of assaulting 19-year-old Mustafa Jafari during a fight in Stockholm.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old rapper was given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay damages to the victim.<\/p>\n ASAP Rocky and his co-defendants, Bladimir Corniel and David Rispers, claimed they had been acting in self-defence against two men who had been following their group.<\/p>\n The case attracted international attention when US President Donald Trump intervened, claiming the rapper was being treated unfairly.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened?<\/h2>\n
How was Mr Lilja involved in ASAP Rocky’s case?<\/h2>\n