"He seemed very violent and angry," witness Mahdi al-Wazni told TV2.
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Copenhagen — Killed Shooter Denmark Police said the three seemed to act alone and randomly select victims when firing in a crowded shopping mall.
Police have not identified the motive for the attack on Sunday at one of Scandinavia's largest shopping centers. The suspect with a rifle and knife was immediately arrested, and Copenhagen police chief Soren Thomassen said a 22-year-old Danish man also had another gun.
He said firearms were illegally obtained and the suspect was known to mental health services, but did not provide further details on either.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the attack "abnormally brutal" and "it was the worst nightmare" on Monday.
According to Thomassen, the three killed were a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both Danish and a 47-year-old Russian man. Four more were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and were in critical but stable condition. All 30 people were injured after a bullet struck at a field shopping center on the outskirts of the Danish capital, most of them panicked stampede.
Such attacks are rare in Denmark. The last of this scale was in February 2015, when a 22-year-old man was killed in a gun battle with police after a shooting in the capital, killing two and injuring five police officers.
The suspect will be prosecuted late Monday for preliminary charges of murder. This has not led to a formal accusation, but authorities can detain the suspect during the investigation.
Thomassen said police had no sign that anyone had helped the shooter and his motives remained unclear.
He said, "Our investigation, the documents we reviewed, the ones we found, or the witness statements we obtained can prove that this is an act of terrorism. There is nothing. " Thomassen, who previously identified the suspect as "ethnic Dane," is a phrase usually used to mean that someone is white.
Danish broadcaster TV2 wears a man who is supposed to be a shooter, knee-length shorts, a vest or a sleeveless shirt, and what looks like a rifle in his right hand. I have released a grainy photo of a man who has it.
"He seemed very violent and angry," witness Mahdi al-Wazni told TV2. "He talked to me and said it wasn't real because I was filming him. He seemed very proud of what he was doing."
Images from the scene show people running out of malls where people put flowers on Monday.
Chasand Rastorz, an 18-year-old student on his way to a Harry Styles concert scheduled for a nearby Sunday night, described stampede when the shot rang. At first she thought she and her sister and father were because someone found a style, but soon noticed a panic, including a man who grabbed a child from a stroller in the turmoil.
"People guided us towards the exit signs. We ran up the roof and got stuck there for a while. Then people panicked here and there and people Cried, "Stoltz said.
The Styles Concert was canceled due to the shooting.
The Sunday attack occurred about a week after the shooting in neighboring Norway. According to police, a Norwegian man from Iran fired during the LGBTQ festival, killing two and injuring more than 20.
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