Austrian gunman was obsessed with school shootings, police say

The 21-year-old, who meticulously planned the attack at his former high school in Graz, killed nine students and a teacher.

According to police, the gunman was fascinated by school shootings, but his motive remains a mystery.

After killing 10 people at the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school in Graz, the perpetrator killed himself. He left the school three years earlier.

The incident in Austria’s second-largest city was the deadliest mass shooting in the country’s recent history.

Although his motive for the attack remains unclear, investigators can “say with certainty that, over the years, he developed a passion for school shootings,” said Michael Lohnegger, the head of Styria province’s criminal police office.

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