Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, spokesman for Munich prosecutors’ office said there is still no evidence of any political motivation to the crime, nor that the shooter killed specific victims.
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“At the crime scene 58 shells were found”, he said.
Heimberger said the parents of the gunman remained in shock and were not able to be interviewed.
The deadly attack began in a McDonald’s outside Munich’s Olympia mall on Friday evening, bringing Germany’s third-largest city to a standstill before the gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
“He completely occupied himself with this act of rampage”, Heimberger said. Police piecing together a profile of the gunman whose rampage at a Munich mall Friday left nine people dead described him Saturday as a lone, depression-plagued teenager.
Because of the excesses of the Nazi era, Germany’s post-war constitution only allows the military, known as the Bundeswehr, to be deployed domestically in cases of national emergency.
State Interior Minister Joachim Herrman told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that those laws were obsolete considering the “absolutely stable democracy in our country”.
“Then we have to evaluate very carefully if and where further legal changes are needed”, he said.
It was the second attack targeting victims apparently at random in less than a week in Bavaria.
Most of the victims in Munich in their teens: Three victims were 14 years old, two were 15, one was 17 and one was 19.
Officials also believe there likely was significance in the timing of the attack, which came five years to the day since Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, many of them attendees at a youth camp.
The proposed changes, which must still be enacted by European Union member states, would also set more stringent rules for deactivating previously fully-functioning guns and making them available for sale as so-called decorations. Its serial numbers were filed off and David S. had no permit to purchase weapons, authorities have said.
Germany’s top security official, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, said that Germany’s weapons regulations are already “very strict” and appropriate.
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Investigators analyzing the computer of the Munich gunman have discovered he was an avid player of first-person shooter video games, including “Counter-Strike”, officials told reporters at a press conference Sunday.
