Police released more details of Munich attacker David Ali Sonboly on Sunday, saying the 18-year-old was depressed and had spent two months in a psychiatric unit last year.
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The statement says the youth reported to police immediately after the shooting on Friday, and was interviewed as somebody with a connection to the attacker.
He took his own life following the attack.
Police earlier said the gunman was a deranged Iranian-German who was fixated with mass killings but not inspired by Islamist militancy.
But toxicological and autopsy results were still not available, so it’s not yet clear whether he was taking the medicine when he went on his shooting rampage Friday, killing nine people and leaving dozens wounded.
“He had been planning this crime since last summer”, Heimberger told reporters.
He said the shooter, who likely got his illegal weapon through the internet’s “dark net” market, was an avid player of first-person shooter video games, including “Counter-Strike: Source”.
There is so far no evidence that the shooter knew any of his victims, or that there was any political motivation behind the attack, said Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, of the Munich prosecutors’ office.
Officials said that the man had previously tried to commit suicide on two separate occasions and been admitted to hospital in Ansbach for psychiatric care.
The shooting spree, in which Sonboly killed nine people before shooting himself, sent shock waves through a country on edge.
Sonboly carried out his sickening attack on the fifth anniversary of Norway terrorist Anders Breivik’s massacre in 2011, where 77 people were killed.
Steinkraus-Koch said the suspect suffered from “fears of contact with others” and also depression.
Guns are tightly controlled in Germany and authorities investigating precisely how the shooter obtained the Glock 17 handgun used in the attack.
“Unfortunately, this is a awful new attack which will surely increase people’s anxiety”, regional interior minister Joachim Herrmann said, adding that investigators “have not ruled out” he had an Islamist motive.
He said the weapon had been rendered unusable and sold as a prop before being restored to its original function.
Bavaria’s top security official says Germany needs to be able to call upon its military in times of crisis like Friday night’s shooting rampage at a Munich mall. On Monday, a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker wounded five people in an ax-and-knife rampage on a train near Wuerzburg, and the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.
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She said: “We are in deep and profound mourning for those who will never return to their families”.
