Kvenzel had no further information. Authorities shut down public transportation and warned people to.
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Senior German officials called on Sunday for a review of gun laws and even stricter enforcement after Friday’s shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine people and the gunman himself, a deranged 18-year-old who was obsessed with mass killings.
Heimberger said there is still no evidence of any political motivation to the crime, nor that the shooter killed specific victims.
Neighbors told CNN the teen who lived in the apartment searched by police was Ali Sonboly.
They included a Turk, two Turkish-German dual nationals, a Hungarian, a Kosovan and a Greek, police said.
On Sunday, investigators revealed he had left behind a long written statement on his computer, which was still being analyzed. They also said they had found photographs on his camera showing he had also visited the German town of Winnenden, the site of a deadly 2009 school shooting.
According to police, 58 bullet casings were found at the shooting scene and 57 of them were from the gunman’s weapon, while one was from a police weapon. A police spokesman also confirmed that the suspect spent two months having inpatient psychiatric treatment previous year.
Sonboly had spent two months as an inpatient at a mental care facility in 2015 for two months and was afterwards treated as an outpatient, according to Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, spokesman for the Munich prosecutor’s office.
The shooter’s father saw a video of the start of his son’s rampage on social media and went to police as it was taking place, Heimberger said, adding that the family was still emotionally not up to questioning by police.
Police on Sunday raised the number of people injured in Friday’s rampage from two dozen to 35.
Heimberger said the McDonald’s restaurant were most of the victims died was a hangout for youths with an immigrant background.
“It is not the case that he deliberately selected” the people who he shot, he said.
Although the German Prosecution initially denied finding incriminating evidence at the home of Ali Sonboly, who murdered 9 people in Munich, a message on his computer is now revealed to have contained an exact description of his preparations for the attack for almost s year.
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In the aftermath of the attack, Bavaria’s top security official urged the government to allow the country’s military to be deployed in support of police during attacks.
