At a press convention early on Monday morning, Copenhagen Head of Police Soren Thomassen stated the victims embody “a man in his 40s and two young people.”
A younger Danish man has been arrested in “undramatic fashion” in reference to the taking pictures, in line with Thomassen, and is presently the one suspect.
“We are convinced that the 22-year-old suspect arrested was the shooter, he was carrying a rifle and ammunition,” he stated, including that investigators “believe the suspect was not working with others, but that until they are absolutely certain they will not rule it out.”
Police arrested the suspect 13 minutes after receiving the primary emergency name in regards to the taking pictures, Thomassen stated.
Eyewitness Joachim Olsen, a former Danish politician and athlete, advised CNN that he was on his solution to a gymnasium inside Field’s when he noticed giant teams of individuals exiting the mall.
“It looked like something, I’m sorry to say, like something you would see from a school shooting in the US, people coming out with their hands above their heads,” Olsen stated.
“You have people running out, looking for friends and calling friends and family members who were inside, some speaking to friends who were inside,” he stated. “Old people with their arms around the necks of people carrying them out, their feet just being dragged across the floor.”
Outside the mall, Olsen spoke to a person who spoke to an off-duty paramedic whose arms “were covered in blood up to his elbows.”
“He wanted to go back in but the police wouldn’t let him,” Olsen stated.
According to Olsen, safety tried to get the crowds to maneuver away from the mall.
“At one point we were rushed away. The police came and said ‘Run, run, run, they’re still shooting in there.'”
A spokesman for Rigshospitalet, Denmark’s largest hospital, advised CNN that the hospital had taken in a number of victims and had referred to as in additional workers to cope with the emergency.
A telephone line for victims has been opened and police stated they’ve arrange a central location the place eyewitnesses can get help and report their experiences to regulation enforcement officers.
“We have all been brutally ripped from the bright summer that had just begun. It is incomprehensible. Heartbreaking. Meaningless. Our beautiful and usually so safe capital was changed in a split second,” Frederiksen stated.
In an announcement, Denmark’s Royal House stated, “Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with the victims, their relatives and all those affected by the tragedy.”
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, additionally expressed solidarity with the individuals of Denmark.
Journalist Susanne Gargiulo reported from Copenhagen.
