The arrest represents the third recent incident in which a Swedish teenager has committed a suspected shooting in Denmark.
The 17-year-old cannot be put into arrest due to his age, but is in the care of authorities, news wire Ritzau writes.
Police believe the boy to be behind an incident in which six shots were fired from a semiautomatic weapon at an 18-year-old man in a jewellery store on the Falkoner Allé road in Frederiksberg.
He was arrested shortly after the incident at around 7pm on Monday. The target was hit by one of the shots according to the report.
The weapon was subsequently discovered by police in a hiding place at a local swimming baths, Frederiksberg Svømmehal.
Police believe the boy to have worked with accomplices, according to Ritzau.
The case is the third in a week involving a Swedish minor using a firearm in Denmark.
Last week, two Swedish nationals aged 17 and 16 years were placed in pre-trial detention in after carrying out shootings in Kolding and Copenhagen respectively.
According to Danish police, the two youths were recruited on social media to commit crimes in Denmark. In the Kolding shooting a man was shot at least three times in the leg, and in the Copenhagen shooting, at the Blågårds Plads square in Nørrebro, no one was injured.
A senior Danish police officer subsequently said there have been cases of Swedish teenagers receiving payments of 200,000 kroner from Danish criminal groups or more to commit serious crimes in Denmark.
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"We have seen that criminals are looking for people willing to commit serious crimes on social media and that young Swedes unfortunately are agreeing to do so for payment," senior police investigator Torben Svarrer, from the Danish police's NSK unit for serious crimes, told Sweden’s TT newswire.
“They are simply getting a large amount of money to carry out violent crime including murder. What we are seeing now is attempted murders. But in Sweden there have been murders and some of the same channels have been used,” he told DR.
The motive for the most recent shooting is so far unknown.
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