The suspect, identified as Ali Sonboly, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was of dual German-Iranian nationality, police confirmed on Saturday. Sonboly’s body was found around 9:30 p.m.
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Herrmann said the attacker, who came to Germany two years ago but had his asylum claim rejected after a year, had tried to kill himself twice in the past and had spent time in a psychiatric clinic.
The restaurant remained cordoned off Sunday, as nearby residents and relatives of the victims gathered for a second day to pay their respects.
Heimberger said there is still no evidence of any political motivation to the crime, nor that the shooter killed specific victims.
Most of the dead were teenagers, and six had a non-German background, police said.
Munich Police confirm at 20.20 that six people have been killed.
Ismail said Sonboly had been bullied because he was seen as something of a “nerd” who liked to study.
“[He] was obsessed with shooting rampages”, he said.
Members of a special police forces in Munich, Germany.
Investigators said the pistol Sonboly used in the attack appeared to have been restored to working order having previously been rendered unusable and sold as a stage prop. He had evidently researched previous killing spress, prosecutors said.
Police commandos, with night vision equipment and dogs, raided an apartment in the Munich neighbourhood of Maxvorstadt early on Saturday, where a neighbour told Reuters the gunman had lived with his parents for about four years.
“From documents we have examined thus far, it seems he had been planning his act already since last summer”, said Robert Heimberger, chief investigator at Bavaria’s criminal investigative agency, at a press conference.
“It does look like he was studying mass killers…the fact that the attack was on the fifth anniversary of Breivik’s massacre does suggest that he was using Breivik as a role model”.
He apparently lured victims to the McDonald’s where he opened fire after hacking into a girl’s Facebook page and promising people free food if they showed up.
The residents of Aratos, a village of 700 near the northeastern Greek city of Komotini, expected 17-year-old Hussein Daitzik and his family, migrants living in Germany, to visit next week as part of their annual vacation in their ancestral home.
A German-language translation of the book by Peter Langman, “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters”, was also found.
Investigators said preliminary findings did not point to links with Islamic State.
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The debate in Germany in the aftermath of the shooting turned to gun control on Sunday, with two members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet calling for the existing legislation to be reexamined.
