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Saturday, July 23, 2016

Munich gunman had book about Columbine and Virginia Tech killers

American academic’s 2009 work Why Kids Kill ‘provides an interior view of the mind of rampage school shooters’

As German authorities try to determine what could have led an 18-year-old student to murder nine people at a shopping centre in Munich, one of the pieces of the puzzle they will be considering is a book called Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters.

A copy of a German translation of the 2009 work, by the American academic Peter Langman, was found by police in the suspected gunman’s bedroom.

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Here's book found in #Munich shooter's flat written by US academic Peter Langman. English and German translations. http://pic.twitter.com/AVjEroEEJW

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