Reports say that Sonboly, who killed nine and injured 16 before turning his gun on himself, posed as a teenage girl called ‘Selina Akim’ on the social network, and used this account to send an invitation to his victims.
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“But whether the acts or the motivation of those killers inspired the Munich shooter is still under investigation”, the minister said, as Soraya reported.
The shooter, identified as David Ali Sonboly, 18, by the German media, also received two months of psychiatric treatment a year ago and played shooting video games, including Counter-Strike: Source, according to Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office.
“He had been planning this crime since last summer”, Heimberger told reporters.
Police also found medication, but it was not clear whether he had been taking it.
Sonboly carried out his sickening attack on the fifth anniversary of Norway terrorist Anders Breivik’s massacre in 2011, where 77 people were killed.
The attacker, who took his own life, was born and brought up in the Munich area and had spent time in psychiatric care, Reuters said.
He reportedly started planning the attack after visiting the site of a 2009 school shooting in southwest Germany.
The gunman who murdered nine people at a Munich mall Friday may have attempted to lure young people to the scene of the crime with a fake Facebook post offering free food, authorities said Saturday.
Police believed it was an older weapon that had been reassembled, and were still working to establish where the attacker had obtained the 300 rounds of ammunition found in his rucksack.
Heimberger said he could not reveal details of the document yet because there were “many more terabytes” of information to evaluate. They included three 14-year-olds, two 15-year-olds, and four others aged 17, 19, 20 and 45.
An 18-year-old gunman opens fire at a shopping mall in the German city.
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Three victims were from Kosovo, three from Turkey and one from Greece. According to neighbors, a teen named Ali Sonboly lived in an apartment searched by police after the attack.
