Shooting suspect in Germany had fixation on deadly rampages

Bayri described trying in vain to keep the teen alive until help arrived. ‘The ambulance is already coming.

Although police had engaged in a shootout with the Munich gunman, an autopsy indicated he had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police officials told a press conference in Munich on Saturday. “The attacker apparently occupied himself intensively with this”, Andrä said. It showed the attacker, in front of the McDonald’s restaurant on Hanauer Street, firing off a fusillade of shots as people ran to get away.

“Nine people who were going shopping on the Friday evening, or wanted to eat something, they are now dead – it seems according to the investigations, hit and killed by the bullets of one single perpetrator”.

David S, an 18-year-old who killed nine people in and around the Olympia Einkaufzentrum (OEZ) shopping centre on Friday is thought to have shared the message before the attack, inviting friends to come to the fast food chain to receive free food.

According to foreign media reports, there were also three Kosovo Albanian victims. He called them “heroes in the war for the joint freedom and values in Europe”.

“That act of violence has touched our hearts and Europe’s consciousness”, he added. Around 1 a.m., police said the gunman was dead.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that Ireland stands with Chancellor Merkel and the German people and extended his sympathies to the victims.

Neigbhors told CNN that the 18-year-old who lived in the apartment searched by police was Ali Sonboly.

De Maiziere said there were indications the killer had been bullied “by others his age”.

“At the moment it’s simply impossible to say that”.

French President Francois Hollande expressed sympathy and solidarity with German officials and people “in these hard hours”, while US President Barack Obama voiced staunch support for Washington’s close ally. It can count on Frances friendship and cooperation.

Hollande is holding a special government meeting Saturday where government ministers are discussing consequences and next steps after the Nice attack July 14. And of the 27 that were also injured, 10 of them are in critical condition, including a 13-year-old boy, police said.

The shooter may have hacked a Facebook page to lure victims to the McDonald’s where the shooting started, Heimberger said.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris was lit up in the colors of the German flag late Saturday in tribute to the Munich victims.

Race director Christian Prudhomme joined the riders on the starting line in the ski resort of Megeve.

Rather, investigators searching his belongings found numerous documents on rampage killings, including a book entitled “Rampage in My Mind – Why Students Kill”, said Robert Heimberger, president of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office.

Police Chief Andre says that the suspect appeared to be “obsessed with shooting rampages”.

Munich police said on Facebook that witnesses reported seeing “three different gunmen” but it was not clear whether they were referring to three separate shooters or the same shooter at three different locations.

The woman reported that her account had been hacked shortly afterwards.

Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae told a news conference early Saturday that the suspect was a dual citizen from Munich and his motive was still “fully unclear”.

Officials said the killer used a 9mm pistol and had 300 rounds of ammunition in his rucksack when he went on what they called a “classic shooting rampage”.

The young gunman who paralyzed Germany’s third-largest city and shot dead nine people before killing himself was described Saturday by police as obsessed with mass shootings but lacking any apparent link to Islamist militant groups. The man, whose name wasn’t released, was not previously known to police and there was no evidence of any links to terrorist organizations, Andrae said.

“We’ve seen initial reports about a shooting at a shopping center in Munich, Germany”, said State Department Spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau.

Organizers also canceled a weekend beer festival, citing security.

Even though Stoll was safely ensconced in her grandmother’s apartment – police urged nearby residents to remain indoors – she remains shell-shocked.