On Friday , 28 February 1986 , at 23:21 CET ( 22:21 UTC ) , Olof Palme , Prime Minister of Sweden , was fatally wounded Bodily_harm by a single gunshot Use_firearm while walking Self_motion home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen .

On Friday , 28 February 1986 , at 23:21 CET ( 22:21 UTC ) , Olof Palme , Prime Minister of Sweden , was fatally wounded Bodily_harm by a single gunshot Use_firearm while walking Self_motion home from a cinema with his wife Lisbet Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen .

Lisbet Palme was slightly wounded Bodily_harm by a second shot Use_firearm .

Christer Pettersson , who had previously been convicted Legal_rulings of manslaughter , was convicted Legal_rulings of the murder Killing in 1988 after having been identified Check as the killer by Palme 's wife .

Pettersson died Death in late September 2004 , legally declared Expressing_publicly not guilty of the Palme assassination Killing .