The video shows him at the entrance to a McDonald’s restaurant, directly outside the shopping centre.
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They also confirmed further shootings had taken place in Hanauerstraße, but said they still could not confirm other crime scenes.
German President Joachim Gauck said he was “horrified” by the “murderous attack”, while Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, who was on a flight to NY when the shooting began, will return to Germany.
Witnesses reported seeing three people with weapons, police said on Facebook.
Munich’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung paper says city’s transit system has shut down following shooting at a mall.
Live video from the scene on Twitter showed more than a dozen police vehicles and ambulances descending on a building in a district of the Bavarian city.The livestream video shows a street cut off and the arrival of SWAT team units.
In March, IS claimed suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a city metro station that left 32 people dead.
“The shooter or shooters are still on the run” either in or around the mall, she said.
Heavily-armed police also rushed to the city centre, where a panic had broken out and people ran from the pedestrian area to the central Karlsplatz, also known as Stachus.
A spokesman for the police says officers are investigating a body near the shopping center that they believe is connected to the attack, but they have not confirmed if it is the body of a perpetrator.
Several hours after the shooting, police said it was unclear if the shooters were still in Munich.
Authorities declared a state of emergency in Munich, and police urged people to stay home or seek safety indoors.
Munich police spokeswoman Claudia Kuenzel told The Associated Press there had been “several dead and wounded” in the shooting at Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall.
At the White House President Barack Obama told reporters he’s been getting briefed on the shooting and the pursuit of the gunmen, but that the situation continues to unfold and “we don’t yet know exactly what’s happening”.
The incidents in Germany follow an attack in Nice, France, on Bastille Day in which a Tunisian drove a truck into crowds, killing 84.
Police sign blocks the entrance to Odeon square following shootings at a shopping mall earlier on July 22, 2016 in Munich. German public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk is reporting six people have been killed, while CNN is reporting five.
“I was lucky because he shot toward the other directions not mine”, she said, speaking from a hiding spot inside a storage room.
The Munich police warned people around the mall to stay in their homes and get off the street, amid reports that the gunman was still at large.
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“Our thoughts are with the victims of the attack, with their loved ones and also with the police who are defending freedom and security”. That attack, allegedly carried out by a 17-year-old Afghan, was in the town of Wurzburg, north of Munich, in the same state of Bavaria. The first reports came at 6 p.m., the shooting apparently began at a McDonald’s in the shopping center.
