The gunman, an 18-year-old German of Iranian descent, first shot people at a McDonald’s before moving across the street to the Olympia shopping mall in the culturally diverse, thriving middle-class neighbourhood of Moosach.
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Although police had engaged in a shootout with the Munich gunman, an autopsy indicated he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police officials told a press conference in Munich on Saturday.
“Documents on shooting sprees were found so the perpetrator obviously researched this subject intensively”, Andrae said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel met with her top security advisors Saturday to review Friday’s attack.
-12:21 a.m. Saturday: Police say at least 10 people killed in mall shooting, including attacker.
After gunfire broke out at the mall, one of Munich’s largest, the city sent a smartphone alert declaring an “emergency situation” and telling people to stay indoors, while all rail, subway and trolley service was halted in the city.
Nine people were killed and 16 injured, of whom three are in critical condition, Munich police said.
The IS group also claimed suicide bomb attacks at Brussels airport and a city metro station in March that killed 32 people.
She and her Turkish husband, with their children aged two and four, found themselves with nowhere to go because the nearby street where they lived had been cordoned off.
However, the police believe there was something more appalling behind the shooter’s motives. In fact, while carrying out the attack, he shouted, “I am German!”
“Massacre of innocent and defenseless people today has turned into another stain in the human history, for which there is no other way than waging an unrelenting and all-out battle without double standards in order to eliminate it”, Qassemi said.
In the killer’s room, police found a German translation of a book entitled Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters, by the U.S. academic Peter Langman.
The gunman killed nine people and himself on Friday around a mall in Munich.
Special police forces searched an apartment in the Munich neighborhood of Maxvorstadt on Saturday morning, apparently in connection with the shootings, residents told CNN.
The shooter may have hacked a Facebook page to lure victims to the McDonald’s where the shooting started, Heimberger said.
Merkel said of the Munich shooting: “Such an evening and such a night is hard to bear”.
One victim was 45, another 20 and the rest were between 14 and 19, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said.
However, while police don’t know precisely what triggered Sonboly they are sure that there was no clear political motivation, ruling out links to Islamic State, and to far-right groups. But his transformation into a violent killer still stunned those who had watched the uneasy teenager grow up.
Investigators later found the body of the suspected shooter, who appears to have acted alone and then killed himself with a shot to the head.
-8:11 p.m. Police write on Facebook that “witnesses report three different people with guns”.
She said the whole of Germany is “mourning with heavy hearts” and suffering alongside the families who lost loved ones.
“‘Your injuries aren’t that bad, brother, ‘ I said to him”. “First I thought someone had thrown some firecrackers”.
But he told German public television the government would look carefully at its security measures once the investigation was completed to see if any changes were needed.
Bavarian State premier Horst Seehofer said attacks should not be allowed to undermine democratic freedoms.
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At another point, he yells, “I’m German!” to which the man on the balcony, identified by the Bild newspaper as Thomas Salbey, a 57-year-old construction worker, responds, “You are a jerk!” and demands to know what he is up to, saying “you should be in psychiatric care”.
