Country will respect three days of national mourning
The suspect of the shooting in Austria was a student at the Secondary School in Graz, southeastern Austria, but did not conclude the course, the Interior Minister said at a press conference cited by Reuters.
According to Gerhard Karner, the 21 -year -old suspect did not complete the course.
Austria will fulfill three days of national mourning for the shooting that killed nine people – six women and three men – and made 12 injured
In turn, the Austrian police spokesman revealed the gunman had Austrian nationality, had his weapons legally and who committed suicide at the school’s bathroom after committing the crime.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and expressed solidarity with the victims.
The Kronen Zeitung newspaper indicates that the shooting began around 10:00 am (09:00 in Lisbon) and that the alleged perpetrator fired in two different classrooms. The area around the school has been isolated and is being watched by strongly armed police, and traffic has been diverted.
Within 10 days, on 20 of this month, there will be 10 years of another shooting in Graz, in which three people were killed.
Graz, the second largest city in Austria, is located in the southeast of the country and has about 300,000 inhabitants.
