Brave Huseyin Dayicik, 19, was one of 9
people baby-faced shooter Ali Sonboldy gunned down during a bloody
rampage in the German city
A hero brother died when he leapt in front of his twin sister as a deranged lone gunman sprayed them with bullets in Munich.
Baby-faced shooter Ali Sonboldy shot dead nine people in the German city after becoming obsessed with mass killings.
The
18-year-old German-Iranian opened fire near a busy shopping mall on
Friday evening, reportedly in revenge for years of bullying.
Seven of his victims were themselves teenagers, who he is believed to have lured to their deaths after hacking a girl's Facebook account and offering free food from McDonald's.
As
the first pictures of those killed began to emerge yesterday, it was
revealed one brave victim, Huseyin Dayicik,19, managed to save his
sister's life when used his body as a human shield. Alleged picture of Ali Sonboly the teen gunman responsible for the Munich shootings (Photo: Bild) But the teenager - that some claim is of Greek descent and
others claim is Turkish, was tragically shot twice outside McDonald's
after buying gifts for his family at the nearby shopping centre.
A
number of reports have suggested that instead of choosing to run the
dedicated youngster chose to stay and pushed his twin out the way of the
brutal gunman.
Other victims included Dijamant Zabergja, 21,
Armela Segashi and her 14-year-old friend Sabina Sulaj, football fanatic
Gulliano Kollmann, 18, and 15-year-old Can Leyla.
A further 27 people were wounded, some seriously, in the shooting,
which was the third act of violence against civilians in Western Europe -
and the second in southern Germany - in eight days.
Bavarian
state crime office president Robert Heimberger said Sonboly was carrying
more than 300 bullets in his backpack and pistol when he shot himself.
Munich police witnessed the suicide at 8.30pm local time (1830 GMT), authorities said. Armela Segashi was killedCan Leyla is believed to have been killed in the shooting Following a police search of the attacker's room, where a
book on teenage shooting sprees was discovered, Munich police chief
Hubertus Andrae all but ruled out an Islamist militant link to the
attack.
"Based on the searches, there are no indications
whatsoever that there is a connection to Islamic State" or to the issue
of refugees, he told a news conference. He told onlookers he had been bullied (Photo: Twitter)The gunman opened fire at a McDonalds "Documents on shooting sprees were found, so the perpetrator obviously researched this subject intensively."
The gunman was born and brought up in the Munich area and had spent
time in psychiatric care, and there was no evidence to suggest he had
had an accomplice, Andrae said. Sonboly was obsessed with Anders Behring Breivik (Photo: Getty Imag)Football fanatic Gulliano Kollmann, 18, who was killedInterior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said it was also too
early to associate the Munich shootings with Breivik, who in 2011 shot
dead 69 attendees at a youth summer camp hours after murdering eight
others by detonating a van bomb in Oslo.
But he told German
public television the government would look carefully at its security
measures once the investigation was completed to see if any changes were
needed.
De Maiziere said a unit of federal police had been
readied on Friday given initial indications of a possible large militant
attack, but in the end it was not used.
Robert Heimberger, president of the Bavarian state criminal agency,
told the news conference police were investigating findings suggesting
the Munich gunman invited people to a fast food restaurant at the mall
via the Facebook account.
"(He) said he would treat them to what
they wanted as long as it wasn't too expensive - that was the
invitation," Heimberger said.
He added that this still needed to
be verified, but there were many clues suggesting the attacker had set
up the invitation and sent it or posted it online.
Turkey's
foreign minister said three Turkish citizens were among nine people
killed in the Munich attack while Greece's foreign ministry said one
Greek was among the dead. Sabina Sulaj tragically died in the Munich massacreReported victim of the Munich shopping centre shooting Armela SegashiAccording to foreign media reports, there were also three Kosovo Albanian victims.
Chancellor
Angela Merkel said she was "mourning with a heavy heart" for those
killed, and that the security services would do everything to ensure the
public was safe.
Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofer said the killings - together with an
axe attack by a 17-year-old asylum-seeker that injured five people in
Wuerzburg, also in Bavaria, on Monday - should not be allowed to
undermine democratic freedoms.
"For the second time in a few days
we've been shaken by an incomprehensible bloodbath ... Uncertainty and
fear must not be allowed to gain the upper hand," a visibly distressed
Seehofer told reporters. Tragic Armela Segashi was caught up in the blood rampageBoth the Wuerzburg attack, and the Bastille Day rampage by
a truck driver in Nice, France that killed 84 people on July 14, were
claimed by Islamic State militants.
The Munich gunman, whose
father a neighbour said had worked as a taxi driver, had no criminal
record but had been a victim of theft in 2010 and assault in 2012,
police said.
De Maiziere said there were indications the killer
had been bullied "by others his age". He also cited concerns about the
role violent video games may have played in the crime.
Police
commandos, with night vision equipment and dogs, raided an apartment in
the Munich neighborhood of Maxvorstadt early on Saturday, where a
neighbor told Reuters the gunman had lived with his parents for about
four years. Neighbours were shocked at the teenager's involvement (Photo: Reuters)Specialist officers searched the family home (Photo: Reuters)In the killer's room, police found a German translation of
a book entitled "Why Kids Kill - Inside the Minds of School Shooters".
Asked
if the gunman had deliberately targeted young people, Munich police
chief Andrae said that theory could be neither confirmed or ruled out.
Bavarian
Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said there were several signs he had
been suffering from "not insignificant psychological troubles."
Three of his victims were 14 years old, two were 15, one was 17 and one 19. The others were 20 and 45, the police chief said.
Police
will also have to find out how the 18-year-old obtained the firearm in a
country whose gun control system is described by the U.S. Library of
Congress as being "among the most stringent in Europe".
"The
investigation is still trying to determine where it came from,"
Heimberger said, adding that the assailant was not the registered owner
of the gun.
"I am shocked. What happened to the boy? Only God
knows what happened," Telfije Dalipi, a 40-year-old Macedonian neighbor,
told Reuters. "... I have no idea if he did anything bad elsewhere."
