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Lone shooter kills 9, 16 hurt
The shooting began at a McDonald\'s fast-food restaurant at the Olympia shopping mall near Munich\'s Olympic stadium shortly before 2130 IST on Friday. A video posted on social media appeared to show a man dressed in black walking away from the restaurant while firing repeatedly on people as they fled. Nine people were killed and 16 injured, of whom three are in critical condition, Munich police sai
A German-Iranian teenager suffering from depression shot dead nine people and wounded 16 others at a Munich shopping mall before committing suicide, with police on Saturday denying any link with the ISIS. The gunman suffered from depression and had an obsession with shooting sprees like the massacre five years ago by Norwegian rightwing fanatic Anders Behring Breivik.
The shooting began at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant at the Olympia shopping mall near Munich's Olympic stadium shortly before 2130 IST on Friday. A video posted on social media appeared to show a man dressed in black walking away from the restaurant while firing repeatedly on people as they fled. Nine people were killed and 16 injured, of whom three are in critical condition, Munich police said. Kosovo said three of its citizens were among the fatalities while Ankara said three Turks had died.
It was not immediately clear if they had dual nationality. Most of the casualties are young people aged 15 to 21, Bavarian public television said.
Initially believing three gunmen were involved, the authorities launched a city-wide manhunt, mobilising more than 2,000 police supported by the elite GSG-9 anti-terrorist unit and helicopters. Munich's main train station was closed and public transport suspended for several hours.
Investigators later found the body of the suspected shooter, who appears to have acted alone and then killed himself with a shot to the head. Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae said the suspect was an 18-year-old dual-citizen German-Iranian from Munich. His name has not been made public. Investigations of his home and police files point to "a classic act by a deranged person," Andrae said.  
There is absolutely no link to the Islamic State," he said, adding that the suspect had been obsessed with books and articles about mass killings "linked to maniacs."  He said German investigators have established an "obvious link" between Friday's shooting at a Munich mall and Breivik's mass killings on July 22, 2011.
