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Austrian school shooter was likely fan of online shooting games
- On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, Arthur A., a 21-year-old former student, carried out a shooting at his old high school in Graz, resulting in 10 fatalities and 11 injuries before he took his own life.
- Authorities said Arthur A. led a withdrawn life focused on online first-person shooter games, and the motive remains unclear despite detailed planning.
- Arthur A. arrived at the school carrying a rucksack and was equipped with a Glock pistol, a sawn-off shotgun, and a hunting knife, firing indiscriminately on the building’s second and third floors.
- Authorities found a farewell message and video in which Arthur A. expressed apologies and gratitude to his family, while a search of his residence uncovered a non-functional pipe bomb along with bomb-making plans.
- In response to the tragedy, Austria has observed a three-day period of mourning, while the shooting has sparked renewed demands for stricter gun control measures amid increasing firearm ownership and violent incidents.
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They are drawn through the biographies of the school amok runners of the past years. Columbine in the USA, Erfurt and Winnenden in Germany and with us Graz – the perpetrators were all enthusiastic first person shooter gamers. Did his hobby favour the development of 21-year-old Arthur A. as an amok runner, did the shooter perhaps even use virtual tactics? Krone+ knows what Arthur A. played – and possibly learned – at the same time.
A 21-year-old boy planned the attack, left a letter of resignation and ended up committing suicide. Authorities reveal that a boy had a life “very reserved and was not willing to take part in real life”.
Austrian school shooter described as introvert who withdrew from real world
GRAZ: Austrian police on Thursday (Jun 12) described the 21-year-old gunman who carried out the country’s worst school shooting as an introvert who had largely retreated into virtual spaces and carefully planned the deadly attack. The shooter, identified by local media as Arthur A., killed 10 people and
(Rome = Yonhap News) Correspondent Shin Chang-yong = Austrian police said on the 12th (local time) that the suspect in the shooting incident at a high school is isolated from the outside world and living alone...
The attacker shot ten people and then killed himself.
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