The suspect reportedly expressed sympathy for the Islamic State. It is also a stark reminder of how hard it is for authorities to stop these types of attacks that are becoming increasingly common across the continet.
The four victims killed included a British man, a Belgian woman and two Swedes, authorities in those countries said.
"We have confirmed the identities of the dead, and their families have been informed", Evensson said. In addition to the four killed, 15 people were injured, four of them critically, Stockholm County Council said earlier.
Spokesman Patrik Soderberg says in a statement that four of the 10 are considered to be "seriously" injured and the remaining six, including the child, are slightly injured.
Thousand of people gathered at Stockholm's Sergel Square on Sunday to remember the victims.
Police have described the suspect as an Islamic State group sympathiser who had gone underground in Sweden after his residency permit application was rejected past year.
Police are holding a 39-year-old Uzbek man who they believe was the driver of the hijacked beer truck that crashed into a department store, leaving death in its wake.
He had applied for permanent residency in 2014, but this was rejected, and in December 2016 he was given four weeks to leave the country, police chief Jonas Hysing told a press conference.
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Spokeswoman Karin Rosander told The Associated Press "a person suspected of terrorist offenses by murder has been arrested" on Sunday. About 500 people have been questioned.
However, Reuters news agency said the person was arrested on "a lower degree of suspicion" than the first suspect.
Witnesses say the truck drove straight into the entrance of the Ahlens Department Store on Drottninggatan, the city's biggest pedestrian street, sending shoppers screaming and running.
Police in Stockholm on Saturday.
"I thought everyone would run past me and save themselves", said Papusa Ciuraru, whose foot was crushed by a boulder displaced by the speeding truck.
Stockholm officials, meanwhile, moved thousands of flowers at a makeshift memorial to a nearby square after a fence outside the department store was overwhelmed with tributes and threatened to collapse.
On Sunday politicians addressed the crowds, numbering over 20,000 according to city officials, while Swedish artists performed as people held up their arms and made peace signs with their fingers.
But police apparently never found the man, whom authorities have said was known to Sweden's intelligence service for undisclosed reasons.
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