Denmark mall shooting likely not terror-related, gunman acted alone: police
Global News
Three people were killed and four others seriously wounded after gunman opened fire on Sunday afternoon in a shopping mall in Copenhagen.
Danish police believe a shopping mall shooting that left three people dead and four others seriously wounded was not terror-related. They said Monday that the gunman acted alone and appears to have selected his victims at random.
Copenhagen chief police inspector Sren Thomassen said the victims – a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both Danes, and a 47-year-old Russian man – were killed when the gunman opened fire on Sunday afternoon in the Field’s shopping mall, one of Scandinavia’s biggest.
Four other people – two Danish and two Swedish citizens – were treated for gunshot wounds and were in critical but stable condition, Thomassen said. Several other people received minor injuries as they fled the shopping mall, he added. Some 31 ambulances responded to the emergency, rescue officials said.
Thomassen said police had no indication that anyone helped the gunman, identified as a 22-year-old Dane. He said while the motive is unclear, there is nothing suggesting terrorism, and that the suspect would be arraigned later Monday on preliminary charges of murder.
In Denmark, preliminary charges are a step short of formal charges but allow authorities to keep criminal suspects in custody during an investigation.
“There is nothing in our investigation, or the documents we have reviewed, or the things we have found, or the witnesses’ statements we have gotten, that can substantiate that this is an act of terrorism,” he said.
Police said they seized a rifle from the suspect who also carried a knife. “We also know that he has had access to a gun,” Thomassen said, adding “I will not comment further on it now.”
He confirmed that the suspect was known to mental health services but provided no further information.
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