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The Latest: Police: Swedish school attack had been planned

Mourners light candles outside Kronan school in Trollhattan, Sweden, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, a day after an attack. The attacker who stabbed two people to death at the school before being shot and killed by police had a racist motive, police said. (Adam Ihse/TT News Agency via AP) SWEDEN OUT
Mourners light candles outside Kronan school in Trollhattan, Sweden, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, a day after an attack. The attacker who stabbed two people to death at the school before being shot and killed by police had a racist motive, police said. (Adam Ihse/TT News Agency via AP) SWEDEN OUT Mourners light candles outside Kronan school in Trollhattan, Sweden, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015, a day after an attack. The attacker who stabbed two people to death at the school before being shot and killed by police had a racist motive, police said. (Adam Ihse/TT News Agency via AP) SWEDEN OUT

TROLLHATTAN, Sweden (AP) – The latest about the stabbing attack at a school in southern Sweden that police say was motivated by racism. All times local:

12:20 p.m.

Police say the man who stabbed two people to death at a school in southern Sweden before being shot and killed by police had planned the attack.

Investigator Thord Haraldsson said Friday police have “found evidence that the incident was planned” and that the 21-year-old masked man had acted alone.

He said police had also found “a kind of suicide note” left behind by the attacker in his apartment.

The man, who has not been identified by police, entered the school in southern Sweden Thursday and stabbed four people, two of whom died, before he was shot by police.