Austrian school shooter who gunned down classmates pictured for first time

Artur A has been identified because the suspect within the deadly shooting in Austria

The gunman behind certainly one of Austria’s deadliest school shootings has been pictured publicly for the primary time.

Artur A., a 21-year-old from a suburb of town of Graz, has been identified because the suspect who killed at the least 10 pupils before taking his own life.

The previous student was pictured holding his cat in the primary images of him to emerge because the massacre on Tuesday morning.

Discarded plans for a bomb attack and a non-functional pipe bomb were discovered during searches on the suspect’s home, police confirmed today.

Investigators found a farewell letter at the house of the suspected gunman, Austrian newspaper Krone has reported.

He also allegedly left a goodbye message for his mother. As soon as his mum saw the message, she called the police, however the shooting had already taken place.

Medical helpers stand outside a school where a former student opened fire the day before fatally wounding several people and injuring many others before taking his own life, Graz, Austria, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) — The shooting has rattled Austria’s second-largest city (Picture: AP)

GRAZ, AUSTRIA - JUNE 11: School students gather and mourn in the main square the day after a nearby school shooting on June 11, 2025 in Graz, Austria. Austrian authorities have confirmed that eleven people died and more are being treated for injuries, following a shooting at BORG Dreierschutzengasse secondary school on Tuesday. The 21-year-old suspected shooter is among the dead, and is believed to have taken his own life, according to police. (Photo by Matej Povse/Getty Images) — One victim has been identified as a 15-year-old Kosovan girl (Picture: Getty)

Police reportedly raided his property yesterday afternoon and located a note, the contents of that are unknown.

He left school two years ago, had no previous convictions and no known social media.

Artur was a former student at the varsity and didn’t finish his education there.

Lea Bajrami, 15, has been named as certainly one of the eleven victims within the shooting.

Lea’s grandfather, Muhabi Bajrami, told Tevë1: ‘She was a wonderful student in class. We heard this happened within the morning, and everybody called us and asked where Lea was.

‘We hoped it wasn’t true, but at 2 pm, my son called me and said, ‘Father, Lea has left us.’

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