Since he didnt attend BORG anymore at the time of the attack. how did he get inside without any suspicion?

Does anybody know which photos of Arthur were took closest to the shooting? Or the date/years for his Whatsapp and Tumblr pfps?

Does anyone know exactly how Arthur was bullied verbally or physically? (I know that he left school in the 6th grade because of this)

Does anyone know or have any guesses what brand/model gloves he’s wearing in the picture that he posted on tumblr where he’s holding his Glock?

If anybody happens to know

Which (if any at all) of Langman’s school shooters categories do you think Arthur fits in: traumatized, psychotic, and/or psychopathic?

something makes me think that Arthur might have done this when he was alone

Main Signs like: preferring to withdraw socially and isolation, emotional detachment, escaping into virtual worlds or online network. Cops and the media kept calling him really introverted, like extremely shut off from everyone,a total loner who barely had any social life outside his immediate family and online gaming. Classmates said he straight-up didn’t want contact with anyone, he’d just stand alone in group photos, and he came across as shy and awkward with almost zero interaction. He only stayed in touch with one friend but never really opened up to them about anything. His main escape was playing online shooter games, especially Valorant. He even jumped in as a substitute player for a few tournaments (like VulkanLAN 2024 under the name “zenie”). In real life though, he wasn’t involved with people much at all. the esports team later said he was never a proper member or anything serious, just a random last-minute sub. Early reports claimed he had zero social media, but some old gaming profiles and ancient YouTube videos (Minecraft stuff and random clips from years back), steam, tumblr, all with few comments or posts turned up later. Few people quoted in the Austrian media (either from the investigation or someone who knew him like from the shooting club and the classmate in a computer class) said they’d “never met a more cold, empathy-less person” than Artur A. He didn’t really show any obvious anger or emotional outbursts in the few contacts he had. I just think what could have prevented him from being accepted in austrian military, and why he never seek out help with his mother.

I see a lot of people, even in this sub, who say he might have been. But based on what exactly could one deduce that he was?

Recently, I’ve asked myself what the first ever signs were of him glorifying mass shootings or becoming interested in shooting up his own school. Initially, I thought he had been thinking about it for 1–2 years, but then I remembered that signs like him following Samantha Rupnow on Spotify and his Tumblr activity appeared about 3 months before the attack. So, is it known when he started planning or even becoming interested in the topic?

Sam Askari was in the classroom where the worst part of the shooting went down. He was shot in the face by the perpetrator and survived after being in a coma for 2 days. In a recent interview he talked about his experience and how he recovered from his injuries.

This is the full interview translated into english:

It was 9:57am, third lesson, how do you remember the following minutes?
I stood in front of the board and heard a loud bang. Then another 3 or 4. Calculated, fast, loud. I thought: maybe something fell?. Then I thought: Maybe it's a prank by my classmates? This can’t be real. But a part of me knew, 4 heavy things falling right after another, that doesn’t happen. A part of me knew what's going on before I could even realize it. Or wanted to. I went to the back of the classroom and took cover behind my desk, I thought about what I should do next. That's when he came through the door.

What did he look like?
Like a monster. From a video game. He had headphones on, black glasses, black gloves. Or like a robot. He had no emotion on his face. If someone has emotions, he wouldn’t do what he did.

When the shooter came closer, what went through your head?
After I realized this is really happening, for a moment I didn’t feel anything. And then panic. A lot of thoughts. It was seconds but it felt like eternity. If I die now, what about my parents? I’m so young. I have so many dreams. I wanted to be a rapper but I didn’t have enough time. I talked to god, I said: god, god, god. And then I thought about 50 cent.

50 Cent?
The Rapper. I also rap. He is a big idol of mine. 50 cent was shot 9 times, one time even in the face, and still lives. I said to god: would it be possible that I live too? I don’t care how, even if I get shot in the face. I just want to stay alive. And that's what happened.

What else do you remember?
The man came closer. He shot slowly and concentrated. I don’t want to talk about what happened around me, it’s their stories, I will leave it up to them if they want to tell it. I thought I’m going to die now. And then my mind shifted and I thought about my bread in my lunchbox.

Your bread?
It was in my backpack. I only took one bite and put it back. Why didn’t I eat it? I was wondering. I should have eaten it when I still could but wanted to keep the rest for lunch break. When I want to do something today I do it instantly. Maybe the perfect time will never come. I could be gone tomorrow, or even in two minutes.

Can you tell us what happened next?
Right before I got shot, I felt very good. Like nothing bad could happen to me.

Please explain more
It's hard to explain how it felt. I felt good. Like nothing bad could happen to me. My brain accepted that I will die. I was calm, then I had a thought, like intuition. If I’m going to sleep forever, I want to lay down in a comfortable position. When I was a child I always had my sleeve on my forearm and fell asleep like this. That's what I did in the classroom too. I closed my eyes and turned my head. Then he shot at me. Later I understood that turning my head in this moment saved my life.

Turning your head saved your life?
If I didn’t do it the bullet would have gone through my brain and exited through my forehead. But because I turned my head before the shot it entered my jaw and exited next to my nose. Everytime I tell this it feels like I’m not talking about myself. It feels like a story I heard somewhere. But I remember everything. It feels like a movie in my head.

Were you in pain?
No. The adrenalin. I saw white and had a high pitched ringing in my ears, nothing else. Fiiiiih, that's what it sounded like, very loud. The white and the sound blended out what happened around me, then it went away. I saw everything that happened, and I heard everything. I saw him leave the room.

When did you realize you got shot?
First I looked at my hand. There was a hole. I didn’t look any further, I was scared it would be too much for me if I found worse injuries. I didn’t know how I would react. I wanted to say something but the muscles in my face didn’t work anymore. My head hurt. I had a lot of blood in my mouth. I kept spitting it out. I tried to stay awake, it was hard. Then police came in. Someone carried me from the classroom to an ambulance, that's where I lost consciousness. 

You had emergency surgery and were in a coma for two days.
I had a dream, but it wasn’t a normal dream.

What kind of dream?
A dark room with a table, two chairs and a lamp on the ceiling. Garri Kasparow, one of the world's best chess players, sat on the opposite chair. He played white. So he had even higher chances of winning. I sat down. We didn’t speak a word, but I knew there was a rule. If I lose the game, I have to die, if I win I get to live. We play, and suddenly he stands up and offers me a handshake.

He gave up
Yes. It means hes giving up. I shook his hand, then I woke up. It was weird. 

What does the dream mean to you?
That I can do more than I thought.

Did you know what happened when you woke up?
A nurse asked me if I knew where I was, I said yes, at a hospital. Next time I woke up my family was there. My mom and my dad. We looked at each other and cried. My dads friend was also there, he's like an uncle to me. He asked: how are you? I said: what do you think? I got shot. And we laughed. To this day when I see him and he asks how I’m doing, I always say: I got shot, how do you think I’m doing? And we always laugh.

Does laughing help?
I think it does.

When did you realize what happened?
My parents told me. The shooter was an ex-student. He entered the school before 10am, and prepared himself in the bathroom. He had eye and ear protection, tlc suspenders, a glock 19 and a sawed off mercury shotgun. It lasted less than 10 minutes. He went inside my classroom and another one. He killed 9 students and a teacher. Then he went to the bathroom and shot himself. They also told me what exactly happened to me. 

Do you want to tell us about it?
First they weren’t sure if I would survive. Only a few hours after the surgery the doctors thought maybe I could make it. My ears and eyes were injured, it wasn't clear if I could ever hear or see again. The bullet went through my head, punched through my jaw and went into my hand, I almost lost my thumb. The following weeks I could only open my mouth 4-6mm. I had to drink through a sponge and couldn’t chew food for months. It was terrible.

What fears did you have?
I didn’t know if I would ever be able to rap again. I was scared I would have to give up my big dream. In the hospital I wrote a song which helped me process the shooting. It hurt a lot when I was moving my mouth, but I went to the studio to record the song as soon as I could. In the song I’m saying: My life, god gave it to me, that's what matters.

After performing on a stage now, do you see this as a victory over the shooter?
The shooter took enough from me. I don’t want him to have any more power over me, my present or my future. This terrible thing he did to me, I’m turning it into something postive, a song, which brings me joy. When I heard he shot himself I was very angry. He cowardly escaped facing the consequences of what he did. I wanted him to be in court and get sentenced.

How did you process that?
There were really dark moments. The anger almost consumed me. I asked myself: Why me? I wanted to understand why, I tried to reason with it. I wanted to understand why someone would do this.

What answers did you find?
There is no reason. There is no explanation. I'm lucky I realized this early on. Looking for an answer is a waste of time. There is no answer, so I stopped looking. I don’t want my life to revolve around the shooter. 

Do you still think of him a lot?
Never. He is never in my mind. But I talked about it in therapy a lot. I think it's good to talk about it a lot so it's out of your head. Otherwise, maybe you feel better in one moment when you don’t talk about it, but then it all comes back and it might be even harder to process.

When did you return to the school?
On the same day I was released from the hospital.

How was it?
It felt weird, but I wanted to do it. It wasn’t fear. Back then I was still wondering why this happened. And the school felt empty. Because 10 people who should be here will never be back.

How did you feel after your time in the hospital?
I had a lot of flashbacks. When I heard the sound of heavy boots. Or any loud noise, it made me flinch hard, panicked, my body had a strong reaction to it. A part of me was back in the classroom. 

Does that still happen?
The month after it happened a lot, yes. But now not anymore.

Many people that escaped death say they look at life differently since then, how is that for you?
I know now how precious it is to have a future. That's why I'm working on mine. Before the incident I only recorded a song every now and then whenever I felt like it. Now I work on new songs almost daily and practise a lot. I take better care of my body because I know that life is a gift. I appreciate the smaller moments more. I didn’t realize how nice it is to just hang out with friends. I enjoy it a lot more now. And I feel more connected with God. I trust him more.

How can you leave the incident behind?
What happened that day will always be part of me. It's on my body and in my soul. I don’t think you can forget this kind of pain. But I want to talk about it and tell my story. When I see my memories in the form of song texts in front of me, and when I talk about them, it gives them less power. Then my experience has no power over me anymore, but I have power over it.

If Arthur could see what he did, would he be satisfied? What do you think he would feel? Would he regret it? Would he have expected more from himself? Did he even have a “goal”? Was his plan simply to kill as many people as possible, or did he deliberately stop after that “short” time and take his own life? Did he run out of ammunition, or was he “finished”?

Sometimes I wonder what these people feel when they commit such acts… What do you think—how many of them regret it in the very moment they pull the trigger? Obviously there are perpetrators like Lanza who seemingly feel no remorse, but also others like, for example, Rupnow, who from my perspective stopped very quickly and took her own life. She had clearly announced far more than she ultimately carried out…

hi im sorry if this is a dumb or already asked before question, but ive noticed that on a lot of arthurs accounts there he used "zenie" "z3nie" "zenie2k" "z3" or another version of that, and im pretty sure that on either his discord or steam account his username was just a bunch of z's. is this a reference to another shooter or does it translate to something in german?

I have a theory. His Steam account picture was Juzo Suzuya's. Juzo is a very androgynous character who changes throughout the series, including his hair. He dyed it black, like Arthur, and increasingly dressed in black. Perhaps that was one reason why Arthur dyed his hair at the end.

I've been researching him for a while and couldn't get any information on what his height is, and other personal info.

Is there a known manifesto and was ist released?

Is there a known transcript of what excactly he said in his last video?

Does anybody have statements of people who used to know him? Like their thoughts on him and how he used to act according to them? Id really like to know how people thought of him and how he acted outside of the internet, if anyone has articles and sources on this too it would be great

Do you think there is any greater significance to why he chose June 10th as the day for his shooting?

Did Arthur ever have a love life & girlfriend or play any real sports besides esports? Just curious.

He went to the Landesberufsschule Feldbach for around 7 months, but going there via public transport would have taken him 1h30m, even a car ride from his home-district to Feldbach takes around an hour (not like that matters, I'm pretty sure he didn't have a driver's license, let alone a car). Did he waste ~3h daily just by going to school and all the way back?

is there any known information about what his political views are? both of his inspirations, columbine and rupnow, were nazis. however, he didn't do the white power hand signal in this bathroom picture when referencing rupnow. is there anything known about his views?

Alguien sabe si en algún medio la madre declaró algo? Arthur le dejó un video despedida, no hay algo acerca de eso?

Arthur targeted 2 classrooms and 1 of them was his former classroom, whats your theory on why he attacked the 2nd one?

not that it bears much significance but I was wondering if he was partly of Armenian descent as initially reported or if that was fake news. I’d guess if his dad was Armenian they either weren’t married or been divorced - otherwise he wouldn’t have a German sounding last name.

I think that's would be pretty hard to guess but maybe someone into psychology can know, i dont know

I saw a video recently where there was a guy saying that, in fact, Arthur and Natalie could be connected to each other. But have they ever really talked, or is it just a surface-level acquaintance? Because to me, it doesn’t seem like they’ve actually met, not even online.

It feels so sad to think about this, but he really spent as much time on his pc as possible and that behavior didn't change at all, he was probably playing games for most of june 9th. I really wonder if he still enjoyed them or if he just wanted to kill whatever time he felt he had left to live

Translation: According to information provided by KURIER, army psychologists became aware of the future killer because he presented himself as extremely introverted and as a loner. He is also said to have complained about a lack of support from his parents. He therefore did not fit into the army, where soldiers must above all be able to function as part of a team.

Which means: He was likely trying to avoid service, since he presented himself as unfit (at least psychologically), if he had any intention of joining he would have probably just kept his mouth shut about his introversion and family issues. He clearly knew how to present himself as capable and fit to buy/use a gun, as he did in march of 2025 when he passed the psychological test for his weapons-ownership license.

And on top of that, I don't think 18 year-old Arthur had any incentive to join the military nor the alternative of an 8-month-long mandatory community service (which he would have been obligated to do had he passed his psychological evaluation), he probably wasn't in need of a gun or experience with one at the time, valorant was his biggest priority back then.

The idea that he wanted to join the armed forces was probably just something that aligned well with him killing a bunch of people, I'm pretty sure you don't even get to pick between the armed forces and community service until the physical and psychological tests are evaluated and you are deemed to be suitable for service. I might have to dig up my own documents to prove that though, if I still have them somewhere

Why did he got the guns when he was mentally instable for the millitary but passed the psycho test for a gun license

Do yall think he played Roblox tcc games to get a better sight for the situation 😭

I have my suspicions about where he might be buried. But I don't want to go into detail to avoid anyone finding it. I'm just interested in your opinion and how he was buried.

Translation: The 21-year-old was also wearing wired headphones. However, they did not have a voice or Bluetooth function. A corresponding adapter was found on his cell phone. Next to the perpetrator, investigators also found earplugs that are used in shooting training. The glasses found were “optical vision aids.”

Which means that he was actually wearing headphones during the attack (or at least at the time of his suicide), he just had earplugs with him for whatever reason

It's also interesting that he wore glasses to help with his vision instead of shooting glasses. We know that he used to wear glasses in his childhood due to multiple class photos in which he is wearing them but I'm surprised that he actually brought them with him, since he hadn't worn them during the VulkanLAN

Source is: (The article was written on the 17th of June, after a lot of rumors were confirmed to be true/false, and the headphone thing was stated by the head of the investigation team that was assigned to the school)

hello, wanted to ask if there is new info on the case anywhere, austrian news outlets aren‘t really reporting on it anymore. Thank you

I tried to search up Beryl Chason and Jeryl Chason but nothing came out that would make sense with him?

Do you think that if Arthur had managed to enlist, it would have changed anything about him?

At first i thought it was shortly before he bought the weapons, but seems really weird to me to be playing counter strike knowing it will be your last days alive. Or was there no date set and he just decided that day?

Is it because it's something new in Austria that never happened before, or is it something else? maybe the victims who were teens and so people feel sad because literal kids lost their lives or because of Arthur himself who is a bit mysterious and we don't know much about him?

And no, I dont want it focused by looks only I mean overall

Every time I look at all pictures of Arthur, I have a strong feeling that he may have some anorexia nervosa, or maybe an eating disorder. He looked so pale and gaunt too.

Since the autopsy of his body is not available to measure his weight after death. I wouldn't be surprised if his BMI is below the average BMI of a normal person or even listed as underweight.

Was it inspiration by other mass shooters, isolation or hatred of his school or a combination of these that you think are the motivations for the shooting? Inspired by Columbine and wanted to surpass the deaths of that mass shooting?

There’s no simple answers, no manifesto or anything foreshadowing his attack. This is why this is speculation.

How did he get them since theres really strict gun laws in Austria?

As far as I remember, I managed to find a link to his Twitch profile about 5-7 days after the attack, but I couldn't access his profile

Did the perpetrator know his victims personally or did he simply shoot indiscriminately?

I have a gut feeling that he was pretty unpolitical, yet he interacted with political content and left as well as subtle messages.

Arthur's followed twitter accounts (on zenie77_):

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I originally thought the coali_yuga account might have been a remnant of Samantha's followed accounts but it's not ()

Another hint at Arthur's (un)political views is the toilet picture:

It's just insanely unlikely that his refusal to do the ok-handsign was an accident, but we have no clue what his motivation behind that decision was

We know that he came into contact with the Columbine shooting and at least Abundant Life Christian School shooting (Rupnow) and maybe Antioch High School shooting (Henderson).

Do we know about any other shooting that could’ve influenced him? or any that we could trace back based on the information that we have?

Like, contrary to what I believed back when the shooting happened, he seemingly wasn’t influenced by any prior shooting that happened in the german-speaking area, but was primarily influenced by American shootings.

edit: he used a zero day pfp on Spotify

I was just chilling when this question popped into my mind: why did he stop playing competitively, 

Was he playing other games in the days leading up to the attack? 

And sorry if the questions seem a bit silly

What do you think was he planning to do with it? And do you think he got inspired by Roslyakov? The russian school shooter.

Thankfully no one got killed during that day.

I’ve been trying to figure what his eye colour is, I just can’t seem to figure it out since it’s unclear in his photos. They look blue but they also look grey.

Does anyone know how Arthur exactly killed himself after in the bathroom stall? If he shot himself, which of his guns did he use to shoot himself?

I took this screenshot on the 13th of June, 3 days after the shooting, if anyone knows how to use the Waybackmachine and find it, it would be very perfect. It was on Sissi State's Facebook account, as I remember? If not, then its probably on VulkanLans Facebook.
When I tried to click on the link, the post was deleted.

I haven’t seen anyone mention that before, so I’ll post it now. In fact, I think this is pretty interesting information, especially for everyone who speaks German and has watched some streamers. KubaFPS (Jakub Dogan) is the biggest and most watched German-speaking Valorant streamer and is always participating in the biggest German streamer events, so it’s really crazy that Arthur once played against him in a tournament, but this was before KubaFPS was really known. KubaFPS currently has 350k+ followers on Twitch.

The match was played on February 2, 2021, at 23:17 UTC, and it was the final of a tournament called Agent’s Rising Cup #6. It was a Best of 1, and the winning team received 350€, while the second-place got 150€.
Arthur's team got second-place. The tournament was hosted by Agents Range, which is a product of Freaks 4U Gaming GmbH, a company that has been in insolvency proceedings since last month.

Sadly, the VOD of this match has been deleted on Twitch and was not uploaded to YouTube afaik, since the cups #4–#13 are missing on YouTube.
However, here is a short Twitch clip of the match that at least proves that it was streamed:

Here are all infos about the match and tournament:
(tracker.gg), (escorenews), (escorenews),
+ a reply of KubaFPS after the match on Twitter (X), where Arthur was tagged:

Arthur was playing for eXile Academy at the time, while KubaFPS was playing for Vivid Fraggers. Both of these teams don’t exist anymore. KubaFPS also wasn’t the only “famous” person Arthur played against in this match, since he also played against bucher (Maximilian Bucher), who currently has 80k+ followers on Twitch.
Arthur even played against bucher two weeks before that in this best of 3:
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Those matches even still have an available VOD on YouTube as of right now:

Since Rupnow, School Shooters / Stabbers like Solomon, Arthur and Timothy have been inspired by her (I think she was the first to do it?) to take a picture doing the OK sign with showing their legs in the School Washroom or outside.
Arthur on the other hand doesnt do the OK sign, most likely because he didnt have any white supremacist motive? Or most likely he didnt do it so he wouldnt be associated with any political party like FPÖ (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs)
(Mb if my english is bad)

In your opinion, could a speech or a conversation with Arthur have stopped him if perhaps he had found someone who truly understood him? It could be anyone a psychologist, a friend, a teacher, anyone who could have genuinely helped him. Would that have been able to stop him?

According to BILD, Arthur was shooting inside his old classroom

Source:

This teacher is getting alot of hate on tiktok comments from Austrians-Speaking comments, calling him a coward for running away and not trying to help the students.
Your opinion?

Let me elaborate: looking at how he presented himself online with all those declared interests in anime, video games, and a certain aesthetic one wonders if he purposely failed the test to avoid being accepted.

Or, is the opposite hypothesis simpler: perhaps he sincerely wanted to join the military, but his personality, his true interests, or insufficient preparation made him objectively unsuitable for the test, with no ulterior motive?

In short, was it a strategic failure (intentional) or a genuine failure (due to real incompatibility)?

Is there any online friends of arthur that can be interviewed?

I live in graz since 2019 and my theory is that this was MOST likely the route he used.
Also I read that he was 20 minutes earlier inside the school? So that basically means he has probably used the 2 drive times (Sorry my english isnt that good)

Sorry if its a stupid question lol im just wondering how his cv has been leak

it’s a interesting concept and it would of been more interesting too see photos and videos of arthur achleitner.

surely in school shooters there’s plenty of photos but I’m disappointed in the lack of detail and photos of Arthur.

It would have given more light into the shooting too see how important it is too speak about pepole who go through homocidal thoughts. ( media coverage.)

Will there ever be more photos of Arthur? )-:

( Ich hoffe wirklich, dass wir bald mehr Neuigkeiten zu dem Fall erhalten. Seit der schießerei bin ich davon FASZINIERT.)

Does anyone know what the name of his cat was? I saw many pictures of his cat but no one has ever mentioned the cats name