Graz (Austria), 11 June (LaPresse/AP) – Investigators found a suicide note and a non-functioning homemade bomb during a search of the home of the 21-year-old who opened fire at his former school in Austria, killing 10 people and taking his own life, police said. The 21-year-old Austrian lived near Graz and was a former student at the Borg Dreierschützengasse high school in Austria's second-largest city, which he had not completed. Police said he used two weapons, a hunting rifle and a pistol, which he apparently owned legally. Police did not provide further details on the investigators' findings. However, a senior official who admitted the letter had been found on Tuesday evening said it did not allow them to draw any conclusions. ‘A farewell letter was found in analogue and digital form,’ Franz Ruf, director of public security at the Austrian Interior Ministry, told public television Orf. "It says goodbye to his parents. But no motive can be deduced from the farewell letter, and this is a matter that requires further investigation." When asked whether the attacker had attacked the victims at random or targeted them specifically, Ruf replied that this was also under investigation and that he did not want to speculate. He added that injured people had been found on various floors of the school and, in one case, in front of the building. In Austria today at 10 a.m., the time when yesterday's shooting took place, a minute's silence will be observed as part of three days of national mourning.
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