The teenager who killed nine people during a shooting spree in Munich had been planning the attack for a year, Bavaria police chief Robert Heimberger says.
According to prosecutor Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, the gunman was not motivated by a political ideology and chose his victims randomly.
The Iranian-German teenager acquired the semi-automatic pistol he used to kill nine people in Munich on the dark web and did extensive research on mass shootings, Bavaria's interior minister told the B24 broadcaster.
The 18-year-old had a copy of the manifesto of Norway attacker Anders Breivik saved on his computer and travelled "within the past two years" to the scene of a 2009 school shooting in the southern German town of Winnenden, Joachim Herrmann told the broadcaster.
Six of the nine victims had a non-German heritage, police said earlier Sunday. They included three 14-year-olds, two 15-year-olds, and four others aged 17, 19, 20 and 45.
Police on Sunday raised the number of people injured in Friday's rampage from two dozen to 35.
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