Munich Gunman Planned Shooting For A Year

The eighteen-year-old teenager who opened fire inside a McDonald’s restaurant at the Olympia Mall in Munich, Germany, used a hacked Facebook account to lure victims to the restaurant.

Heimberger also said the shooter likely obtained his weapon, a 9mm pistol, illegally via the dark web.

Steinkraus-Koch said there is still no evidence of any political motivation to the crime, nor that the shooter killed specific victims.

German authorities said on July 24 that Sonboly underwent two months of inpatient psychiatric treatment a year ago due to social anxiety and depression.

In a separate development in the southern German city of Ansbach on Sunday, police said a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 10 people.

Officials said photographs found on the gunman’s camera showed he had also visited the German town of Winnenden, the site of a deadly 2009 school shooting.

Police have been probing claims that the killer felt bullied by his peers and that he may have been inspired by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people exactly five years before the Munich shootings.

A 16-year-old who knew the gunman from playing Counter-Strike online told Der Speigel Sonboly was “very nationalistic” and frequently made xenophobic comments about Turks.

“[He] was obsessed with shooting rampages”, he said. He said medication had been found at his home but that investigators needed to talk with his family to determine whether he had been taking it.

“Such an evening and such a night is hard to bear”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said after the Munich shooting.

Police said they caught the unnamed teen late Sunday and investigators were able to retrieve a deleted chat between him and the German-Iranian attacker on the messaging app WhatsApp.

The people who died had Hungarian, German-Turkish, Turkish, Kosovar or Greek nationality.

A police patrol had shot and wounded the attacker but he had managed to escape.

“We share their pain, we suffer with them”.