Police have not named the attacker. They said that they boy was with dual German and Iranian nationality who was born and raised in Munich. According to the Neighbors, a teen named Ali Sonboly lived in an apartment searched by police, the same name reported by German media outlets.
Robert Heimberger, president of the Bavarian state crime office, said material founded at the gunman’s home showed he was an avid player of violent video games.
Mr Heimberger said the 18-year-old purchased his weapon — a reactivated Glock 17 pistol — on the so-called dark net, an area of the internet accessible only via special software. “He had been preparing [the shooting] for a year,” Mr Heimberger said.
Police said Saturday the attacker was a mentally troubled individual who extensively researched rampage killings, and had no apparent links to terror groups and no political motive.
On Sunday, investigators revealed he left behind a long written statement on his computer, which was still being analyzed.
Photographs of German town of Winnenden, the site of a deadly 2009 school shooting, were also found in his camera.
Earlier, officials said they found in the gunman’s belongings numerous documents on mass killings, including a book entitled “Rampage in My Mind — Why Students Kill.”
The gunman had also been under psychiatric care in a hospital for two months in 2015, officials said Sunday.
Documents found in his home confirmed that he suffered from mental illness, including depression and anxiety, Munich prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch said Sunday.
Police found medication in his home and are trying to determine whether he had been taking it. the shooter had a history of having been bullied by his peers, and in 2012 had been injured in an attack by other young people that had been reported to police.
The deadly attack began in a McDonald’s outside Munich’s Olympia mall on Friday evening, bringing Germany’s third-largest city to a standstill before the gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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