Brussels .- The alleged perpetrator of the shooting that took place yesterday in a shopping center in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn was a 24 year old member of a shooting club and licensed weapons, as reported today local authorities. The alleged perpetrator of the killing of seven persons, who committed suicide with a shot in the head after opening fire at the entrance of the mall, a young native named Tristan van der Vlis.
The incident took place yesterday at noon in the town located some 20 kilometers from Amsterdam, in the southwest of the country, a time when the mall was very crowded. Six people died at the scene and the seventh in the hospital, where they remain hospitalized ten injured, three of them in serious condition.
The author of shooting left in his car a note indicating that he had placed explosives in three other shopping centers in the Netherlands, which was dismissed by the police after evacuating and inspect these places. Although Van der Vlis was questioned by police in 2003 for violating Dutch law of arms, was later granted permission to have weapons, according to the website of Radio Netherlands Dutch public radio.
The young man legally possessed five firearms, three of which carried with it when the events occurred, although it is unclear whether any of them used in the shooting. Eyewitnesses say they opened fire with an automatic weapon or a machine gun, a type of weapon that could not be obtained legally, local authorities said.
In a press conference yesterday, the prosecutor Kitty Nooy denied that the young come "in a military environment," noting that he left a farewell letter to his mother, with whom she lived in an apartment in the town, but not gave details of the contents of the letter. The event has generated a great commotion in the Netherlands, where more than 4,000 people have left by now his condolences to the victims on a website specially set up for this purpose (www.
condoléances. Nl), and has reopened the debate on legislation for possession of firearms. Likewise, the Rotterdam police last night arrested a 17-years in the town of Hoogvliet by stating in the Twitter network yesterday that the killing "would be repeated" at that position. 
The incident took place yesterday at noon in the town located some 20 kilometers from Amsterdam, in the southwest of the country, a time when the mall was very crowded. Six people died at the scene and the seventh in the hospital, where they remain hospitalized ten injured, three of them in serious condition.
The author of shooting left in his car a note indicating that he had placed explosives in three other shopping centers in the Netherlands, which was dismissed by the police after evacuating and inspect these places. Although Van der Vlis was questioned by police in 2003 for violating Dutch law of arms, was later granted permission to have weapons, according to the website of Radio Netherlands Dutch public radio.
The young man legally possessed five firearms, three of which carried with it when the events occurred, although it is unclear whether any of them used in the shooting. Eyewitnesses say they opened fire with an automatic weapon or a machine gun, a type of weapon that could not be obtained legally, local authorities said.
In a press conference yesterday, the prosecutor Kitty Nooy denied that the young come "in a military environment," noting that he left a farewell letter to his mother, with whom she lived in an apartment in the town, but not gave details of the contents of the letter. The event has generated a great commotion in the Netherlands, where more than 4,000 people have left by now his condolences to the victims on a website specially set up for this purpose (www.
condoléances. Nl), and has reopened the debate on legislation for possession of firearms. Likewise, the Rotterdam police last night arrested a 17-years in the town of Hoogvliet by stating in the Twitter network yesterday that the killing "would be repeated" at that position.
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