Quick facts about Ali Sonboly who shot nine people in Munich

The man who shot at least nine people in a Munich shopping centre,  was an 18-year-old Iranian-German "loner" named locally as Ali Sonboly,  who reportedly complained of bullying shortly before gunning down his nine victims outside a shopping centre and fleeing the scene to commit suicide.

• He was a student, born and raised in Munich.
• Police have found no indication that he had links to Islamic State but have said there are 'obvious links' to far-right terrorist Anders Breivik.
• There appeared to be no links to immigrants or immigration into Germany.
• He appears to have acted alone.
•  He used a semi-automatic 9mm Glock 17 handgun, which had had its serial number illegally removed.
• An additional 300 rounds of ammunition were found in his rucksack when his body was found.
• He had previously received psychiatric treatment, including for depression.
• A search of his room had unearthed a document about "frenzied attacks" and a book called: "Rampage in Head: Why Students Kill."
• Munich chief of police Hubertus Andrae said the gunman appeared to be "obsessed with shooting rampages".
• The gunman appeared to have hacked into a Facebook account to tell people free food was going to be handed out at the McDonald's where his rampage started.

Posing as a teenage girl called 'Selina Akim', Sonboly is thought to have used messages posted on a fake Facebook account to lure young victims to their death with fraudulent offers of free food just hours before his murderous rampage began.

Instead, he opened  fire outside a nearby McDonald's, leaving nine people dead and three seriously injured, while thirteen others escaped with less serious injuries. 

"The perpetrator was an 18-year-old German-Iranian from Munich," police chief Hubertus Andrae told reporters after the massacre on Friday that left 10 people dead including the gunman.

"The motive or explanation for this crime is completely unclear."

The suspect's body was found about 2 1/2 hours after the attack and was identified to be the shooter based on witness statements and closed circuit television footage of the attack. He was not previously known to police and there was no evidence of any links to terrorist organisations.