German gunman was frustrated, computer-obsessed loner

The German suspect in a deadly anti-Semitic attack targeting a synagogue and a kebab shop in the east of the country was a frustrated, computer-obsessed loner who lived with his mother.

Stephan Balliet, 27, was captured by police on Wednesday after he shot dead two people in a gun rampage in the city of Halle.

"The boy was only ever online," spending many hours at the monitor and with few friends, his father was quoted as saying by Bild newspaper, without being named. Balliet had lived with his mother since his parents divorced when he was 14, the paper said.

While he finished school, he had to break off chemistry studies at university after a serious stomach operation, it reported.

A manifesto he is believed to have posted online contained chemical formulas the writer claimed to have used to produce pipe bombs and improvised grenades. About four kilos (nine pounds) of explosives were incorporated into the various bombs packed into his car, prosecutors said.

Balliet also served in ..