Officials had earlier said they were considering all possible motives for the attack, but Munich police chief Hubertus Andrä said Saturday that there were no indications that the gunman had any connection with Islamic State following a search of his bedroom.
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Officials said the searches had revealed no links to Islamic State, and suggested the attack was unlikely to have been motivated by Islamist extremism.
German police confirmed in a press conference this morning that the 18-year-old gunman, named as Ali Sonboly but also being referred to as David S by local media, was investigated in 2010 and another year for involvement with two youngsters.
However, there was no apparent political motivation behind the shooting and the Police are questioning his parents. But, then the shooter was believed to have staged the attack alone.
Germany has been on high alert after a teenage asylum seeker attacked people with an axe on a train on Monday, injuring five.
He has been identified as an 18-year old German National of Iranian decent.
Dieter Reiter said the city is “shocked and aghast at this awful act”.
German public broadcaster BR reports that six people have been killed during the shooting.
German authorities say the shooting began near a fast food restaurant, leaving several people dead.
In a statement in German on Facebook, Reiter expressed his condolences to the victims, their family and friends, and thanked security forces for their work.
Police also said there was an “obvious link between the gunman and Norway’s mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who murdered 77 people in July 2011”.
It is understood police raided a home in the the city’s Marxvorstadt district, around 1.2 miles from the scene, and are believed to be interviewing the gunman’s father.
“Munich, a city which has known terror in the past, today mourns the innocent victims who were going about their daily lives on a Friday afternoon”, he said.
Officers say they’ve reached that conclusion after extensive research overnight. “They are even more hard to bear because we have had so many different and hard reports of horrors in the past few days”.
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A grainy video appears to show a man firing a gun outside McDonald’s as people flee.
