{"id":79061,"date":"2016-07-24T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79061"},"modified":"2016-07-24T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:29:59","slug":"munich-shooting-tearful-witnesses-linger-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/24\/munich-shooting-tearful-witnesses-linger-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"After Munich shooting, tearful witnesses linger at scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MUNICH \u2013 It was the beginning of a typical Friday night out. Crowds streamed through Munich\u2019s glass-and-concrete Olympia Shopping Mall, while across the street, a mostly young crowd relaxed in a McDonald\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n

Then the first shots rang out.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the buzz was replaced by silence. Instead of shoppers, kids hanging out or older folks sitting in arm chairs, the mall was empty, except for police and white-clad cleanup crews wiping away traces of a shooting spree that left nine victims dead and an 18-year-old gunman dead from an apparent suicide. Over two dozen more were injured.<\/p>\n

Police barriers remained up for most of the day. Outside, nearby residents from high-rise apartment buildings behind the mall left candles and flowers. Witnesses lingered hours after the end of the tragedy, apparently in disbelief at what had happened. Many appeared to be in shock, and some cried as they mourned young victims they did not know but saw die.<\/p>\n

The shooter was a dual Iranian-German national born in Germany after his parents sought asylum there. But witnesses said he shouted anti-foreigner slurs as he pulled the trigger.<\/p>\n

The mall was built in a sleepy suburban part of Munich with a high immigrant population. Eight of the nine dead were from 14 to 20 years old. All were Munich residents of various ethnic backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Hueseyin Bayri, who witnessed one teenager\u2019s death, said the shooter screamed a profanity about foreigners, adding \u201cI will kill you all\u201d as he pulled the trigger. A video shot of the perpetrator also showed him yelling anti-foreigner slurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was exactly at the spot where the boy died,\u201d Bayri said of the victim who died in his arms. \u201cI saw that the boy beside me \u2013 I didn\u2019t know him, but I\u2019ve taken him into my heart \u2013 fall down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bayri described trying in vain to keep the teen alive until help arrived.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Your injuries aren\u2019t that bad, brother,\u2019 I said to him. \u2018The ambulance is already coming. Don\u2019t worry, it\u2019ll all work out.\u2019 Then he died in my arms,\u201d he told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will never forget the last words that he told me,\u201d said Bayri, shaking his head. \u201c\u2018Please help me, please help me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Monica Raduvanov was at the Munich McDonald\u2019s where the first shots fell. Terrified, she ran for cover beneath a bush outside the restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just hid and trembled and screamed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Running into a nearby shop after a few minutes, she spent the next five hours inside until police sounded the all-clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was petrified,\u201d she said, still shaking a day after the ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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