A man who was shot to death at a shopping centre parking lot in Malmö Saturday night had allegedly been involved in gang wars in the city and lived under threat.

The man was reportedly in his thirties and involved in gang warfare between 2007 and 2011, regional newspaper Sydsvenskan reports. He was previously a member of a criminal gang called Brödraskapet, meaning the Brotherhood. “He was a very dangerous person and a suspect in several incidents where the public could have been harmed. He knew how to handle both explosives and automatic weapons,” Sydsvenskan’s crime reporter Tobias Barkman told news...