Peter Beck, a Munich police spokesman, said officers were still collecting evidence at the scene of the crime Saturday morning.
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A string of recent terror attacks have put Europe on high alert.
In this grab taken from video, police run in the area of the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall, after Friday’s shooting.
Andrae said it was premature to say whether Friday’s shooting was a terrorist attack, as French President Francois Hollande said, or the work of a deranged person.
Police investigator Robert Heimberger told a police press conference in Munich that it appeared the gunman had hacked a Facebook account and lured people to the shopping centre with an offer of free food. “People were very confused, and they were running and they were screaming”, she said.
The Scottish Daily Express leads with a manhunt being under way, with all public transport in and around Munich being suspended.
Police, citing witnesses, had initially said they were looking for up to three suspects and were treating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack.
Police say they believe the gunman is an 18-year-old German-Iranian who was not known to them and had no criminal record.
The teenager’s home was being searched and his friends and family being questioned.
The shooter replied: “Yeah what, I was born here”, and said he grew up in Germany.
Police said the weapon was a Glock 17 handgun which had had its serial number illegally filed off and there were indications the gunman had been in psychiatric care and treated for depression. “The man who appears to be a shooter said insulting things about Turks, did not espouse jihadist ideology and spoke with a German accent”.
A book called Amok in the Head was discovered along with newspaper articles detailing how police respond to shootings.
The assailant – believed to be an Afghan or Pakistani – or had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany in June 2015. “I hear like an alarm and boom, boom, boom … and he’s still killing the children”. Previous attacks in France and Germany were claimed by Islamic State.
The IS group also claimed suicide bomb attacks at Brussels airport and a city metro station in March that killed 32 people.
Andrae said nearly sixteen people, including several children, were injured in the attack and three of them are in critical condition.
The shooting coincides with the fifth anniversary of the the massacre of 77 people in Norway by rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik.
He said the city was safe to visit and that the attack wasn’t linked in any way to the recent influx of asylum-seekers that has stirred a debate about immigration in Germany.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel will convene her security council on Saturday to address the deadly rampage in the European economic powerhouse which took in more than one million migrants and refugees past year.
