The author of the shooting in a Copenhagen shopping center, which left three dead and four seriously injured on Sunday, has a psychiatric history, police said Monday, adding that there are no indications of a terrorist act.
Arrested shortly after the massacre, the shooter chose the victims at random, Copenhagen Police Chief Inspector Soren Thomassen told a news conference.
Videos of the suspect circulating on social media since Sunday night are considered authentic by police, Thomassen said. He is seen posing with weapons, mimicking suicide gestures, or referring to a drug treatment prescribed by a psychiatrist.
The suspect “has a psychiatric history,” Thomassen said. “There is no indication that he has accomplices,” he added.
Shooting in Copenhagen shopping center: they report “several injured and dead”
The three dead are a Danish boy and girl, both 17, and a 47-year-old Russian resident of Denmark, police said.
The four injured, who are reported seriously, are two Danes aged 19 and 40 and two Swedes, a 50-year-old man and a 16-year-old teenager.
“Our conclusion is that he chose the victims at random,” the inspector said. “There are no indications that this is a terrorist act.”
Other people suffered minor injuries in the stampede that followed the shooting.
