Police searching for motive in Munich shooting; 10 dead

Police in the German city of Munich have asked members of the public to submit any videos, photos or audio recordings from Friday’s mass shooting at a shopping centre that left 10 people dead including the 18-year-old attacker.

He also said the attack was not linked to refugees. They said the motive for the attack was now “unclear”.

Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told a press conference on Saturday that Sonboly appeared to be “obsessed with shooting rampages” and was “deranged”.

Police investigator Robert Hemberger said the shooter was armed with 9mm Glock pistol and had 300 rounds.

Munich’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, declared a day of mourning for the victims of “this bad act”.

At least nine people were killed in the shootout on Friday evening.

He later said the suspect was a dual citizen from Munich and his motive was still quoted “fully unclear”.

The second shooting is said to have taken place at the Stachus metro station in the city centre about five miles away from the mall. Ten of the 27 injured are said to be in a critical condition, including a 13-year-old boy.

The gunman acked a Facebook account and sent a message urging people to come to near the Olympia Einkaufszentrum mall for a free giveaway, a police investigator said.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the train attack, but authorities have said the teenager probably acted alone. 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.

One book was called “Rampage in Head: Why Students Kill”.

Police officers secure evidence from a flat in Dachauer Strasse today.

Police had initially said that they were looking for up to three suspects in the attack.

Mr Heimberger said: “It appears it was prepared by the suspect and then sent out”.

During an exchange with a witness, captured on video phone footage, the gunman shouted that he was “German” and said he had been living on benefits.

One witness said: “I come out of the toilet and I hear, like an alarm, boom, boom, boom”.

“Many shots were fired, I can’t say how many but it’s been a lot”, a shop worker hiding in a store room inside the mall said. I looked down at the Mc Donald*s and saw someone shooting into the crowd.

Earlier Andrae told a news conference that it was too early to label it an act of terrorism, although police had used the term earlier to describe the nature of their operation, which included calling in the elite GSG9 special operations force. “The suspect is, according to the current level of intelligence, an 18-year-old Iranian from Munich”. As dozens of shots rang out, terrified shoppers ran from the scene, some carrying babies and pushing strollers.