(12 Jun 2025)
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Graz, Austria – 12 June 2025
1. Wide of candles at school entrance
2. Wide of news conference
3. Mid of briefing with phone filming
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Lohnegger, Head of the Styrian State Office of Criminal Investigation:
"He put on a gun belt with a hunting knife. He put on shooting glasses, a headset, took a Glock 19 pistol and a Mercury double-barrelled shotgun with a sawed-off stock out of his backpack and armed himself accordingly.”
5. Sign reading (German) “Police”
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Lohnegger, Head of the Styrian State Office of Criminal Investigation:
“From 9:57 he carried out an approximately seven-minute rampage in the school, during which he went from the third floor to the second floor and there opened fire on several individuals in the school building."
7. Wide of news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Lohnegger, Head of the Styrian State Office of Criminal Investigation:
"It was an apology directed to his family for the crime and a general thank-you. It doesn’t go in any direction where you could say you could have an indication for a motive."
9. Wide of news conference
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Lohnegger, Head of the Styrian State Office of Criminal Investigation:
"We determined that his great passion was taking part in online first-person shooter games. Here he naturally socialised with this community and cultivated social contacts."
11. Wide of news conference
12. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Lohnegger, Head of the Styrian State Office of Criminal Investigation:
“But even here, there is no information from his personal surroundings that he ever expressed any anger or resentment toward the school, students or teachers."
13. Wide of people at memorial outside school
STORYLINE:
A former student who killed nine students and a teacher at a school in Austria and then took his own life planned the attack in detail, but he appears to have shot his victims at random and investigators still haven’t been able to ascertain his motive, officials said Thursday.
The 21-year-old had left the BORG Dreierschützengasse high school in Graz three years ago, breaking off his studies after attending for three years, police said.
They said they knew of no personal connection between the gunman and the students he shot, but that one of the two teachers he shot had once taught him.
They were still investigating whether that was a factor.
The attack prompted Austria to declare three days of national mourning, and large numbers of candles have been laid in Graz’s main square and outside the school.
The assailant, an Austrian who lived with his mother near Graz and whom officials have declined to identify, used a Mercury double-barreled shotgun and a Glock 19 handgun in the shooting.
Michael Lohnegger, the head of Styria province’s criminal police office, said that he arrived at the school Tuesday morning with a backpack containing the weapons, and put on equipment including shooting glasses and a headset in a bathroom before starting a roughly seven-minute shooting spree.
He opened fire indiscriminately on the building’s third floor before shooting open the locked door of a fourth-floor classroom and again firing indiscriminately, Lohnegger told a news conference.
Lohnegger said that he had enough ammunition to continue shooting and it was unclear why he hadn’t; the assailant then returned to the bathroom and shot himself fatally in the head.
The shooter was in unspecified vocational training at the time of the attack, investigators said.
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