VIENNA — A former scholar who killed 9 college students and a trainer in Austria per week in the past after which took his personal life had change into fascinated with faculty shootings lately, however his motive for the rampage stays unclear, investigators stated Tuesday.
Police have stated the 21-year-old gunman deliberate final Tuesday’s roughly seven-minute assault on the BORG Dreierschützengasse highschool in Graz, which he left three years in the past, right down to the smallest element. However a lot stays unsure: amongst different issues, why he selected that exact date and why he stopped taking pictures when he did.
After his physique was discovered, investigators discovered that the shooter nonetheless had 24 bullets in two magazines and one other 18 free bullets for his Glock handgun, in addition to 17 bullets for his shotgun, stated Michael Lohnegger, the top of Styria province’s legal police workplace.
A couple of minutes earlier than the taking pictures started, the gunman took an image exhibiting his legs and boots in a faculty toilet and posted it to a social media account, Lohnegger stated. Investigators are nonetheless working by means of some 30 different accounts attributed to him, created between 2019 and this yr, to find out that are real.
They will “say with certainty that, through the years, he developed a major ardour on the whole phrases for the phenomenon of college shootings,” Lohnegger stated. “He glorifies not simply the acts on the whole, but additionally the perpetrators who carried out these acts.”
Nevertheless, he stated, police nonetheless haven’t any info on his motive for the taking pictures.
Eleven individuals have been wounded final week. As of Tuesday, two had been launched from hospitals however 9 have been nonetheless being handled, two of whom have been nonetheless in intensive care, Lohnegger stated. Their lives weren’t at risk.
Chancellor Christian Stocker stated Monday that Austria will tighten its gun legal guidelines, that are among the many extra liberal within the European Union. The gunman owned the 2 firearms he used legally.
