A man arrested on suspicion of killing three people and wounding several others during a shooting at a shopping mall in Copenhagen was known to psychiatric professionals, Danish police said.
The shooting unfolded on Sunday at multiple locations inside Field's, a shopping center in the Danish capital. Social media footage showed people running through the mall and heavily armed law enforcement officers on the scene. At a press conference on Monday morning, Copenhagen's Head of Police Soren Thomassen said a 17-year-old Danish woman, a 17-year-old Danish man and a 47-year-old Russian national had been killed in the gunfire.
Hide Caption 11 of 11Earlier, the police had said they detained the suspect 13 minutes after receiving the first emergency call, and that he was"carrying a rifle and ammunition" at the time of his arrest.At the press conference on Monday, Thomassen said there is no indication the attack was an"act of terror" nor motivated by gender, and police believe the victims were chosen at random. The suspect was"known to people in the psychiatric field," he said.
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