The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say.<\/span>
<\/span>Written material on such attacks was found in his room, and Munich’s police chief spoke of links to the massacre by Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik.<\/span>
<\/span>The gunman, who had dual German-Iranian nationality, later killed himself.<\/span>
<\/span>His name has not been officially released but he is being named locally as David Ali Sonboly.<\/span>
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<\/span>Friday evening’s attack at the Olympia shopping mall also left 27 people injured, including children. Ten of them are critically ill, including a 13-year-old boy, police say.<\/span>
<\/span>Seven of the dead were teenagers. Three victims were from Kosovo, three from Turkey and one from Greece.<\/span>
<\/span>Police say the Munich-born gunman had been in psychiatric care, receiving treatment for depression.<\/span>
<\/span>Authorities are also checking reports that he may have been bullied by his peers, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.<\/span>
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<\/span>Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said there was an “obvious” link between the attack and Friday’s fifth anniversary of Breivik’s attacks in Norway, when he murdered 77 people.<\/span>
<\/span>The killer reportedly shouted anti-foreigner slurs during the rampage and yelled “I’m German” at one man who challenged him.<\/span>
<\/span>Literature about mass killings was found at his home including a German-language translation of the book Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters.<\/span>
<\/span>Mr De Maiziere said the suspect had researched a 2009 school shooting in Germany as well as the Breivik attack.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo it appears not to be terrorism, but what qualifies as run of the mill white male American type violence.<\/p>\n
That last sentence is so f%$#ing depressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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