An Angry Teen

In the post immediately below this we wrote that the Munich shooter - born of Iranian immigrant parents - was an unlikely Islamic radical. Apparently, the authorities have come to the same conclusion, see this Reuters story on the Yahoo News website.

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.

"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.

The story notes the Munich shooting happened on the fifth anniversary of the Norwegian shooting by Anders Breivik that killed 77, an unlikely coincidence.