[Guardian] Ali David Sonboly finished his paper round on Friday evening, used a young woman's hacked Facebook account to issue a clumsy invitation to a local McDonald’s, then set off to kill anyone unlucky enough to take it up.
The 18-year-old was known to neighbours and schoolmates as a chubby loner who was shunned by classmates and shunned his local community in turn, rarely seen unless he was out on a paper round delivering a local free-sheet.
He had sought treatment for depression and psychiatric problems, police revealed after he shot nine people in cold blood, then killed himself. But his transformation into a violent killer still stunned those who had watched the uneasy teenager grow up.
Classmates, family friends and neighbours said the tall, withdrawn young man had always seemed more shy than violent. Police confirmed that he had no criminal record and had never crossed the radar of German intelligence services. "He wasn’t intimidating-looking, but a little strange in character," said Stephan Baumanns, the 47-year-old owner of the Treemans bakery and coffee shop, which sits near the entrance to the Sonboly family apartment. "He always seemed a bit nervous."
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