Officials said the searches had revealed no links to Islamic State, and suggested the attack was unlikely to have been motivated by Islamist extremism.
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“The situation is still completely confusing”, Thomas Baumann, a deputy spokesman of the Munich police, told Germany’s dpa news agency, according to The New York Times.
Prosecutor Steinkraus Koch tells a news conference the suspect had a book titled: “Rampage in Head: Why Students Kill”.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said it was also too early to associate the Munich shootings with Breivik, who in 2011 shot dead 69 attendees at a youth summer camp hours after murdering eight others by detonating a van bomb in Oslo.
-1:30 a.m. Munich police say the shooter acted alone and has killed himself.
“Such an evening and such a night is hard to bear”, she said of the Munich attack.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to chair a meeting of her government’s security Cabinet Saturday.
David Akhavan, a 37-year-old who from Tehran, Iran, who works at the Shandiz Persian restaurant, described his anguish as he learned of the shooting.
Police said there were no tourists among the victims.
“There was material found in the apartment of the suspect that showed a particular interest in shooting sprees, (but) there is so far no indication of any connection to global terrorism”, Mr de Maiziere said.
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.
“The investigation is still trying to determine where it came from”, Heimberger said, adding that the assailant was not the registered owner of the gun. Local residents described the scene as the shooting unfolded.
Born to Iranian parents who came to Germany in the 1990s as asylum-seekers, Sonboly lived in social housing in Munich’s well-heeled Maxvorstadt neighbourhood.
Most victims were teenagers and residents of Munich.
Andrae, the police chief, said seven of the victims were teenagers; a 20-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman were also killed.
Police officers stand behind a wreath near the Olympia shopping center where a shooting took place leaving nine people dead two days ago in Munich, Germany, Sunday, July 24, 2016.
They were two 14-year-old Kosovan girls, Armela Segashi and Sabina Sulaj, and their Turkish friends Can Leyla, 14 and Selcuk Kilic, 15. The 18-year-old took his weapon, as well as a pack holding more than 300 rounds, into the mall to start his brutal spree.
Reiter said Saturday would be “a day of mourning, not of celebration” and that all public festivals in the city over the weekend had been canceled.
The Munich shooter who went on a rampage in a German mall on Friday was obsessed with violence and death, according to sources in Germany. Heimberger noted that the area where the shopping mall was situated and the McDonald’s outlet where Sonboly began his rampage were frequented by both foreigners and Germans with migrant backgrounds.
“I looked towards him, he fired at two people and I fled the building by climbing a wall”.
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And it occurred just over a week after a Tunisian used a truck to mow down 84 people after a Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice, the third major attack on French soil in the past 18 months.
