Posted on 04/09/2011 5:18:22 PM PDT by nuconvert
(CNN) -- Dutch officials say a gunman opened fire at a mall on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 16 others before shooting himself in the head, a journalist with CNN affiliate SBS reported, citing police and other officials.
Bas Eenhoorn, mayor of Alphen aan den Rijn, told reporters that the 24-year-old suspected shooter -- identified only as Tristan V -- fired an automatic rifle and killed himself before police arrived on the scene.
The suspect, whose full name is being withheld until a formal investigation is concluded, is a Dutch national who was living with his father, police told SBS. Computer equipment and other materials were confiscated from the father's apartment after the shooting.
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I was amazed when I first went to Amsterdam many years aco when we couldn’t even spell terror, to see the airport guards armed with SMG’s. I was suprised to learn that he could posses a gun.
Yes. It depicts "Procrastination".
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