A note saying "we will never you forget forever in our hearts" accompanies the flowers brought to the shopping centre where a lone gunman killed six people in Alphen aan de Rijn on April 10, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Michael KoorenBy Ivana SekularacALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands. Sun, April 10, 2011 1: 48 a.m. EDT
ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands (Reuters) - deadly rampage of a shooter with a shopping centre has been met Sunday disbelief by residents of a quiet Dutch city which once considered such carnage could not happen in their country.
Dressed in camouflage trousers and a jacket, Tristan van der Vlis opened fire with an automatic weapon in a parking lot Saturday and walked quietly in the commercial centre of Ridderhof, where he continued shooting.
The death of six people, including a woman of 91 and an old man of 80 years and 17 wounded, including two children aged six years and 10 years.
The Member of the club 24-year-old gun and then shot and killed himself.
"It's something that usually see you in America, not to the Netherlands," said local resident Martin van der Ploeg has fixed his motorcycle near the commercial centre.
The town of Alphen aan den Rijn, 46 km (29 miles) South of Amsterdam, lies between the towns of the University of Leiden and Utrecht and is close to the famous area of the Netherlands for the growth of tulips and other bulbs.
"The Dutch consider themselves as on Earth." "We have this kind of excess," said Van der Ploeg.
"It was my house, my sanctuary, where I need to feel safe and now that ' s gone."
The shooting was the deadly attack in the Netherlands since a national Dutch drove his car into a crowd in 2009, killing seven people and himself in an attempt apparent to knock the Queen Apeldoorn, 90 km (55 miles) to Amsterdam.
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The gunman left a farewell letter, found by his mother, in which he talks mostly about suicidal feelings. He lived in a building of some 200 metres (yards) in the nine-storey shopping centre.
"He was very polite and very nice," said one of the neighbours of Van der Vlis, a woman who refused to be identified.
"I was very surprised to hear that it was he who shot." I have children and they were often in the elevator with him, and now when I think about it, it's scary, "she said."
Crown Kitty Nooy said after interviewing members of the family Van der Vlis, investigators had still found no reason for the attack.
"This young man had psychological problems which was known by a number of people", she said.
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