Neighbors told CNN the teen who lived in the apartment searched by police was Ali Sonboly. “I’m German, I was born here”, the black-clad assailant replies after the man swore at him, using curse words for foreigners.
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Vigils continue in the Bavarian capital to commemorate the victims, seven of whom were teenagers.
“He had been preparing (the shooting) for a year”, Bavarian police chief Robert Heimberger told a news conference. The page, he said, offered free food as long as it wasn’t “too expensive”.
The posting had been sent from a young woman’s account.
Six years earlier, another teenager, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer, had stormed the educational institute armed with his father’s gun and shot dead nine students and three teachers before moving to a nearby auto dealership where he killed another two people.
The gunman suffered from depression and had an obsession with shooting sprees like the massacre five years ago by Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik.
Following Merkel, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that society must stand together in these times.
Bayri said he heard the German-Iranian shooter yelling, “I’m German, you ******* foreigners”.
Meanwhile, Fadil Segashi, the uncle of Armela, said she was “an example to others”.
He describing the attack as a “classic act by a deranged person” and described an individual “obsessed” with mass shootings.
Initially believing three gunmen were involved, the authorities launched a city-wide manhunt, mobilising more than 2,000 police supported by the elite GSG-9 anti-terrorist unit and helicopters. “And it’s even more hard to bear because we have had so much bad news in so few days”.
Prosecutor Steinkraus-Koch said there was no indication that the shooting was politically-motivated or that he chose the victims due to their nationality.
Heimberger said that Sonboly’s parents were still in shock from what happened and have not been able to be interviewed.
“His whole body language was of somebody who was very shy”.
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About 2,300 police from across Germany and neighboring Austria were scrambled in response to the attack, which began at a McDonald’s across the street from the mall.
