He had a fascination with shooting rampages. The youngest was just 13. The remaining two were 20 and 45. Six were male, and three female.
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An official did note, however, that none of Sonboly’s classmates were among the victims. “15 years”, she said.
“Such an evening and such a night is hard to bear”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said after the Munich shooting.
She said: “We are in deep and profound mourning for those who will never return to their families”.
US President Barack Obama voiced staunch support for Washington’s close ally Germany, while European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said: “Europe stands united”.
“The suspect had fears of contact with others” and also depression, Steinkraus-Koch said.
Other world leaders, including from the UAE, condemned the attack.
They said medication for his problems had been found his room.
Police have found evidence at the boy’s home which showed his obsession with far-right extremism.
Mr Steinkraus-Koch said Sonboly spent two months in a closed psychiatric ward in 2015 and received treatment for “social phobias” and anxiety.
Andrae said the 18-year-old attacker’s room had been searched, adding: “Based on the searches, there are no indications whatsoever that there is a connection to Islamic State”.
He also shot at a man, Thomas Salbey, who remonstrated with him from the balcony of his flat, hurling a beer bottle at him.
Then the first shots rang out. “Bam bam, that’s what it sounded like”, he said.
Across the street, at the shopping mall where the rampage spilled over from the restaurant, the pavement was covered by a long line of flowers, some with messages of condolences. It is directly underneath our house. “First I thought someone had thrown some firecrackers”. The killer had written: “You can talk to me at McDonald’s”. He had reloaded his pistol.
Police will also have to find out how the 18-year-old obtained the firearm in a country whose gun control system is described by the U.S. Library of Congress as being “among the most stringent in Europe”. “I’ll give you something if you want, but not too expensive”. “Now I have to buy a gun and shoot you”.
The filed-off serial numbers of the Glock made it hard to establish its origin.
At an address on Dachauer Strasse that was searched by police early Saturday, a neighbor described the suspect as “very quiet”.
“The lad was very, very nice”, said one.
One, named Ashul, 19, said: “I would see him all the time”.
He had been bullied at more than one school.
Witnesses and a dramatic cell-phone video that police think is genuine indicated the gunman was unstable and disliked foreigners.
Some 2,300 police from across Germany and neighboring Austria were scrambled in response to the attack, which happened less than a week after a 17-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker wounded five people in an ax-and-knife rampage that started on a regional train near the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg. All public transport was stopped and taxi drivers advised not to pick up fares.
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The son of a taxi driver and department store worker, Sonboly was born and raised in Munich but suffered at school – becoming obsessed with mass shootings.
