(10 Jun 2025)
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Graz, Austria – 10 June 2025
1. Wide of officials gathering at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Stocker, Austrian Chancellor:
"This day is the darkest day in the history of our country. The school shooting is a national tragedy that has deeply shaken us. Through this unimaginable act, nine people were suddenly torn from their lives. There are no words to express the pain, bewilderment, and grief. The entire Austrian nation is in shock. My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the bereaved, the families, and those who have lost a child."
3. Wide of officials and military personnel standing at podiums during news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Gerhard Karner, Austrian Interior Minister:
"National tragedy currently mourns nine deaths: six female and three male, in addition to 12 injured. Two seriously injured individuals are teenagers. The 10th death is the perpetrator himself. At this point, I can also confirm that this was the act of a lone perpetrator."
5. Mid of police officers
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Gerald Ortner, State Police Director:
"The suspected perpetrator was an Austrian from the Graz area. According to current knowledge, two firearms were used in the crime, which were secured at the crime scene. These weapons are being forensically examined. The suspect is believed to have legally possessed the weapons, but no information can currently be provided about the motive, as extensive criminal investigations are still ongoing."
7. Mid of officials standing at podium
8. Cutaway of Ortner
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Gerald Ortner, State Police Director:
"The suspected perpetrator has, according to the current state of the investigation, committed suicide in a restroom facility."
10. End of news conference
STORYLINE:
Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker described Tuesday’s school shooting in Graz as "the darkest day in the history of our country."
Speaking at at news conference, he said it was "a national tragedy that has deeply shaken us."
Earlier in the day, a former student opened fire at the school in Austria’s second-biggest city, killing nine people and wounding several others before taking his own life, authorities said.
There was no immediate information on the motive of the 21-year-old man, who wasn’t previously known to police. He had two weapons, which he appeared to have owned legally, police said.
Special forces were among those sent to the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school, about a kilometer (over half a mile) from Graz’s historic center, after a call at 10 a.m. At 11.30 a.m., police wrote on social network X that the school had been evacuated and everyone had been taken to a safe meeting point.
Authorities said the assailant was a 21-year-old Austrian man who had two weapons, which he appeared to have owned legally.
Police said they didn’t immediately have information on the man’s motive.
The shooter was a former student at the school who didn’t finish his studies, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said at a press conference in Graz.
Stocker said there would be three days of national mourning, with the Austrian flag lowered to half-staff and a national minute of mourning at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
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