Shooting in Copenhagen: at least three dead, injured in critical condition

Several people died in a shooting that took place this Sunday near a concert hall in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. At least three people died after being hit by gunfire this Sunday at the end of the day in a large shopping mall in Copenhagen, Danish police said. A suspect has been arrested, police said. He is a 22-year-old Dane. The young man, armed according to witnesses with a large rifle, was arrested without violence shortly after the arrival of the police near the large Fields shopping arcade, located between the city center and the airport in the Danish capital. “There are three dead and several injured, three of them in critical condition,” Copenhagen police chief inspector Søren Thomassen said during a a press conference. The motive for the moment unknown The motives of the suspect, described by the police as “a 22-year-old Danish man”, remain unclear. He is known to the police “but only peripherally”, explained Søren Thomassen. “He’s not someone we particularly know.” The three killed are a man in his forties and two young people whose ages have not been specified. “On social networks, we see flourishing that it would be a racist motive, or some other form of motive, but I cannot say that we have anything which supports that at this moment”, specified the head of the investigation. The police, however, confirmed that they are investigating videos published online claiming to show the suspect with weapons, the barrel of which he points to his temple, which also question his psychiatric condition. A little earlier, the investigators had refused to exclude an act of terrorism”, but explained that their hypothesis was that the alleged shooter acted alone.