Norway mosque shooting suspect won't talk

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The defense lawyer for a suspected gunman accused of an attempted terrorist attack on an Oslo mosque and of having killed his teenage stepsister says her client “will use his right not to explain himself for now” in a detention hearing later today.

Unni Fries declines to comment on Norwegian media reports that the suspect was inspired by shootings in New Zealand, where a gunman killed 51 people in March, and on August 3 in El Paso, Texas, which left at least 22 dead.

A picture taken on August 10, 2019 shows medics with a stretcher near the al-Noor Islamic center mosque where a gunman, armed with multiple weapons, went on a shooting spree in the town of Baerum, an Oslo suburb. (Terje Pedersen / NTB Scanpix / AFP)

Her client was arrested Saturday after he entered a suburban Oslo mosque waving weapons. A man stopped the aggressor, who injured one person slightly. Police who raided the suspect’s house found the body of his 17-year-old stepsister.

— AP