Hamburg shooting: First picture of gunman who killed seven including unborn baby

dailyrecord.co.uk:

A gunman who killed seven people including an unborn baby at Jehovah's Witness church in Hamburg has been named. Philipp F, a 35-year-old business centre employee, is believed to be responsible for the mass shooting that took place Thursday evening, according to German Nespaper BILD.

Seven people were killed in the attack, including an unborn child, and eight others wounded, four of them seriously.His motive is still unknown, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a former Hamburg mayor, describing the attack as as “a brutal act of violence.”Last night, police said they believed the shooting was carried out by a lone gunman and this could be a person who was found dead in the building.

According to the German magazine Spiegel, the suspect was a former member of the congregation, who were gathered for a Bible study meeting at the centre.Citing his website, Spiegel said Phillip F.

grew up in Kempten in the Allgäu region in a strict, religious family. After leaving high school, he trained as a bank clerk and went on to study business administration.He lived abroad on a number of occasions before settling in Hamburg, describing himself as "multicultural" and "a self-confessed European".On his website, he offered consulting services in areas ranging from "controlling" to "theology", with customers charged a "minimum daily rate of 250,000 euros plus 19 per cent VAT".