New revelations about the psyche of the 21-year-old perpetrator who caused the massacre at an Austrian school are coming to light. As it becomes known, the graduate who turned his former school into a bloodbath, killing 10 students with a weapon, had sent his mother a farewell video just minutes before opening fire. Investigators found the message yesterday when they searched the home of the 21-year-old perpetrator, who took his own life after the attack at the high school in the city of Graz. At the same time, it is revealed that the first victim of the attack was a 15-year-old girl named Lea from Kosovo.
Specifically, Franz Ruf, the director of public security at Austria’s Interior Ministry, stated that a “farewell letter” was also found. “He says goodbye to his parents. However, from the farewell letter no conclusion can be drawn about the perpetrator’s motive and this is a matter for further investigation,” the official emphasized.
Austria massacre: The shooter’s mother’s concern
The shooter’s mother, after reading the message and becoming worried, immediately notified the police. However, despite her efforts to prevent a tragedy from occurring, it was too late, as she opened the video message 24 minutes after receiving it, and by then her son had already invaded two classrooms.
When asked whether the perpetrator attacked victims randomly or targeted specific individuals, the director of public security at Austria’s Interior Ministry emphasized that this issue is also under investigation. He added that injured people were found on various levels of the school and, in one case, in front of the building.
Dozens are wounded while during the incident gunshots and screams were heard. This is, as the media report, the most violent mass shooting at a school in the country, with students terrorized and pretending to be dead while hiding in corridors and two classrooms to avoid being shot by the perpetrator.
Students and teachers are on the list of the dead, with the tenth victim being a woman who succumbed to her injuries at the hospital last night.
“He was completely withdrawn. He wore his big headphones and a backpack every time he came and went. He never greeted anyone, but he was never unpleasant,” say neighbors of the young man who spread death at the Austrian high school.
