One of the nine probably the attacker

Press conference announced 50 minutes from now

Public Transport Starts again. Seems to be a hint that Police think danger is over

dochmbi wrote:Balcony Man has got balls of steel or a big gun. Either that, or he is feeling suicidal, provoking the rage of a spree killer.

Or one of those "knee-jerk" situations when humans act without regards for own life nor logical action. Think jumping into wild river to safe another.

Police say only one attacker who is among the nine Dead after killing himself.

Attacker was 18 year old German born of Iranian descend. Motivation still unclear.

Balcony guy might have saved a few lives holding the shooters attention ....shooter appears mentally disturbed.....

NineBerry wrote:Attacker was 18 year old German born of Iranian descend. Motivation still unclear.

Won't be hard to guess what his motivation was I'm sorry to say.

Don't jump to conclusions. Many of the Iranians I have met in Germany are very anti-Islam. There are some hints ( but nothing confirmed so far) that the Attacker specifically targeted Turkish victims.

Police say they found no connection to political or religious ideologies but lots of Materials on past School Shootings in the attacker's Apartment.

Police confirm that he had been in Psychiatric treatment. Only Police Records on him had him as a victim, one was a reported Theft, the Other had him as the victim of a physical attack by Other students. Nearly all of the victims were teenagers.

Police say he had a 9mm Glock with the s/n removed and about 200 rounds in his rucksack. It seems he was a delusional sad teenager with an unhealthy interest in 'mass shootings'.

At least six of the eight teenagers killed probably had a Muslim background. Three from a Turkish background. Three from a Kosovo background.

An unconfirmed Story is that the attacker has for months posed as a Turkish girl on facebook befriending Other young people with Muslim background. The Facebook Account has yesterday over day called on people to go to the mc Donalds for a meetup.

Guardian does a good report....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... isis-links

I notice that English Media Call the attacker Ali S. While the German Media use the name David S. An explanation was just given in a press conference by the interior minister: the attacker was originally called Ali but changed his name to David after converting to Christianity. the

Rumraket wrote:

NineBerry wrote:Attacker was 18 year old German born of Iranian descend. Motivation still unclear.

Won't be hard to guess what his motivation was I'm sorry to say.

It won't be eh?

I'm curious what's your guess? Just come out and say it don't be coy.

I'm interested as well.

The point about conversion to Christianity is not confirmed. Seems to be another case of our interior minister De Maiziere pulling fact out of thin air during a press conference. Still, "David" is the official name, not "Ali". Guy seems to have been non-religious, but "friends" report that he expressed nationalistic ideas, anti-turkish ideas and anti-semitic ideas.

Those friends (actually just members of an online gaming clan that he had joined) and class mates also report previous threats of committing a shooting.

He had been in a mental hospital for two months in 2015 and since still been under treatment for social phobias and depression.

The attack has been planned for more than one year. He had visited the scenes of the Winnenden school shooting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnenden_school_shooting) some months ago (photos of these settings were found on his digital camera).

Gun and munition were bought via the darknet. 7 of the 9 killed were killed from close proximity and within the first two minutes. Besides the other two killed with the gun were only three other persons wounded by the gun. All the other people wounded were not wounded by the attacker but suffered from the mass panic, some even kilometres away from the settings when there were rumours about a shooting and people paniced. So, the guy was not a very good shot. Only killing from close proximity using surprise factor.

How hard is it to get a gun off of the darknet?

Don't know. I haven't tried