Investigators searched the now unnamed German-Iranian man’s home overnight and found a considerable amount of literature about mass killings, but maintained that was no evidence that he was linked to extremist groups.
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Munich chief of police Hubertus Andrae said the gunman appeared to be “obsessed with shooting rampages”.
The pistol-wielding attacker, identified by Munich police as a German-Iranian teenager from Munich, was later found dead of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The teenage killer who gunned down nine people in the German city of Munich had an “obvious link” to the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, police said.
-7:05 p.m. Munich police in a Twitter post warn residents and visitors to stay off the streets in the city.
Munich, capital of the southern German state of Bavaria, was rocked by the attack.
“These are hard hours for Munich”, he said, adding that the city’s citizens had shown great solidarity toward each other. The motive is yet to be established.
Mr Heimberger said they are investigating as “it appears it was prepared by the suspect and then sent out”.
Beck said the number of people receiving hospital treatment stood at 16, three of whom were seriously wounded.
The Chancellor said the operation between the agencies and security forces on Friday night was “seamless” and thanked them for their “phenomenal” effort.
Investigators searched the unnamed German-Iranian man’s home overnight and found a considerable amount of literature about mass killings, including a book titled Rampage in Head: Why Students Kill, but no evidence that he was linked to extremist groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
The police chief confirmed the identity of the gunman, who killed himself following the attack, as 18-year-old Ali Sonboly who had dual nationality and had lived in Germany for some time.
Foreign Relations Office condemned the attack and sent condolences to those affected by “the terrorist act”. His identity was established on the basis of witness statements and closed circuit television.
Initial reports that up to three gunmen may have been involved in the attack turned out to be incorrect, police said.
It is thought he may have used it to invite people to the McDonald’s restaurant, tempting them with offers of free food before attacking. “Only God knows what happened”, Telfije Dalpi, a 40-year-old Macedonian neighbor of the family told Reuters.
Terror and the values of those who represent it have no place Europe.
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The gunman, dressed in black, went on a shooting spree at a shopping mall on Friday evening before committing suicide.
