SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Police say the suspect in the killings at a Salt Lake City mall is dead but they're still trying to find out why he shot nine people.
"The reason for that is there were five people killed. We're not going to just stop our investigation here. We're going to continue investigating like any homicide to find out what the motive was," Salt Lake City police detective Robin Snyder told the Desert Morning News.
The gunman, Sulejman Talovic, 18, died Monday in a shootout with police after he'd killed five people and wounded four.
Former friends and neighbors in Bosnia, where Talovic survived "ethnic cleansing" and fled with his family to the United States, said they were surprised by the news from Salt Lake City.
"I know all Talovic family," said Omer Johic, a neighbor of the Talovic family in the Bosnian village of Cerska told the newspaper.
"Everybody are nice, quiet and fine people, and I just cannot believe that Sulejman has been able to kill those people."
