"One person, a man, was hit and injured," police press spokesperson Daniel Wikdahl told the TT newswire.
"He's been taken to hospital in an ambulance helicopter. He was seriously affected by his injuries but was awake and could talk," he added.
"Multiple shots were fired, but I don't know exactly how many hit the individual in question."
The incident occurred at the shopping centre food court and police were working with witnesses shortly after lunch, Wikdahl said.
"The fact that it's this kind of environment means that there are CCTV cameras as well, which is very useful," he said.
According to Aftonbladet's sources, a young man has been arrested in Huddinge in connection with the shooting, as well as reports of an armed man in an industrial part of the suburb a few hours later. Police would not confirm or deny this when questioned by TT.
"We're looking into two serious crimes and those cases are both in different, sensitive stages of investigation," Wikdahl told TT.
It has not yet been confirmed whether the two cases are connected, although Wikdahl told the newswire that police believe they may be.
The Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper spoke to two women who were in the food court when the shots were fired, one of whom had spoken to the man in question just minutes before he was shot.
"We heard loud bangs and ran to hide under the tables," one of them said.
"I'm shocked and scared. My legs are shaking," she added.
A police helicopter was still circling overhead just after 1pm on Monday. The incident is being investigated as an attempted murder, although no arrests have been made.
The shooting is the third shopping centre shooting to take place in Sweden since the start of October. The first was in Kungsbacka in the south of the country on October 6th, with two 14-year-olds suspected of murder and assisting an attempted murder.
The second was in the food court of a different shopping centre in Sollentuna, close to Stockholm, on October 9th.
"I can't believe it's happening again," one witness told TT. "It shouldn't even have happened once. You shouldn't be worried about a shooting on a Monday at noon."
Another witness to Monday's shooting who DN spoke to, Jan-Erik Nordin, also expressed frustration at the recent number of shootings in Stockholm.
"It's bloody awful. I get so tired. It's simply not possible for us to stay here in Stockholm. It's happening all over the place, all the time. We already decided we were going to move a while ago," he told the newspaper.
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