Munich shooter posed as woman on Facebook, promised victims free food

Police officers stand in front of a fast food restaurant on Saturday, July 23, 2016 in Munich, Germany, one day after a 18-year-old gunman who opened fire at a crowded Munich shopping mall and fast-food restaurant, killing nine people and wounding 16 others before killing himself.

Initial reports that up to three gunmen may have been involved in the attack turned out to be incorrect, police said.

“She claims that he had an altercation several months ago with a classmate at school and threatened to ‘go on a shooting rampage, ‘” Callimachi reported.

Police told reporters that a search of the red backpack lying next to his black-clad corpse revealed that the shooter was carrying more than 300 rounds for the 9-millimeter handgun he used to kill his victims. Andrae said police believe the video is genuine.

De Maiziere says the shooter’s parents came to Germany in the late 1990s as asylum seekers.

Most of the casualties were young people aged 15 to 21, with three women among the dead according to Munich police.

Police will also have to find out how the 18-year-old obtained the firearm in a country whose gun control system is described by the US Library of Congress as being “among the most stringent in Europe”.

“Such an evening and such a night is hard to bear”, she said of the attacks on Friday in Munich.

Munich, capital of the southern German state of Bavaria, was rocked by the attack.

He told a news conference Saturday that “no evidence” of links to the Islamic State group has been found in the home and room of the Munich shooting suspect.

It also appeared that the attacker had hacked a young woman’s Facebook account and posted a message to lure people to the mall for a free giveaway, police investigator Robert Heimberger told journalists.

Langman said his book was written “to keep people safe, to teach people what to look for to prevent such attacks”.

Video footage has emerged which allegedly shows the Munich shooter shouting “I am German” as he is confronted by bystanders.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet her chief of staff Peter Altmaier, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and intelligence officials on Saturday to review the incident. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said three of the victims were also Turkish nationals, naming them as Sevda Dag, born in 1971; Can Leyla, born in 2001; and Selcuk Kilic, according to Turkey’s semiofficial Anadolu news agency.

“It’s odd, but he never spoke with us”, said Ali, who regularly played football with the gunman’s brother in a nearby park.

“I started to get texts from friends asking if I was safe”, he said.

While police have released the name of the gunman, his body was found on a side street close to the mall where he had shot himself. The man who appeared to be a shooter said insulting things about Turks, did not espouse jihadist ideology and spoke with a German accent.