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Danish police say the deadly mall shooting was apparently a random attack

Copenhagen's police chief said investigators had no indication that anyone helped the gunman, identified as a 22-year-old Dane.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police say they believe a shopping mall shooting that left three people dead and four others seriously wounded was not terror-related. They said Monday that the gunman acted alone and appears to have selected his victims at random.

Copenhagen chief police inspector Søren Thomassen said the victims — a 17-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, in the Field's shopping mall, one of Scandinavia's biggest.

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