Berlin university killer bought guns in Austria and took a taxi to the crime scene

He drove to the scene of the crime in a taxi, then the Berliner opened fire in the lecture hall: new insights into the rampage at the University of Heidelberg.

by Janine Wollbrett

► The killer Nikolai G. (18), who came from Wilmersdorf, had bought three guns in Austria a week before the crime. Two found investigators at the scene, plus 150 rounds of ammunition. The third weapon – a rifle – was secured by the Austrian police in the room that the gunman had rented.

► Nikolai G. took a taxi to the scene of the crime and put a sports bag with the weapons in the trunk.

The police are securing evidence at the crime scene.  Mobile phones and laptops were secured in the killer's apartment (Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa)
The police are securing evidence at the crime scene. Mobile phones and laptops were secured in the killer’s apartment (Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa)

It is still unclear whether he was specifically targeting the biological student (23), who was shot in the head, or whether the young woman from Landau (Rhineland-Palatinate) was a random victim.


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The “Zeit” reports that the perpetrator had contacts with the right-wing extremist party “The Third Way”. Investigators found his name on an older, internal party list.

A police spokesman did not want to confirm this when asked: “There is currently no evidence of a political motive.”

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