Shooting Rampage in German school kills 15, suspect killed

[michal]

He fired more than 100 rounds according to polish media. He was former pupil of that school.
Lifes of wounded are not in danger
He was shot in the leg by Police and than commited suicide
He was FPS games freak according to some reports ...

[m0ve]

i read numerous newspapers regarding that topic, seems like the thing with the supermarket wasn't true, MEK sweeped the place but didn't find him.
final shootout was at a car dealership where he killed a salesman and a customer.

police said they are looking into his clothing, computer and music now to find out about his motive.
seems like the usual suspects, he did like horror movies and oned some airsoft guns too....

i wonder if his father will face prosecution as the used beretta and the ammunition were not locked away....

[ikaotiki]

A teenage gunman who killed 15 people in a German school and nearby had given an internet warning before he went on a shooting rampage, German officials say.

They say Tim Kretschmer, aged 17, gave the warning in a chatroom before the killings in Winnenden on Wednesday.

Kretschmer killed 12 people in the school and three others in the nearby town of Wendlingen. He then shot himself after a shoot-out with police.

Police say chatroom users did not take the comments seriously at the time.

At a news conference, Baden-Wurttemberg's Interior Minister Heribert Rech said the gunman had spoken of his attack in a chatroom on a German internet portal.

He said the message read: "I've had enough. I'm fed up with this horrid life... Always the same".

"People are laughing at me... No-one sees my potential... I am scared, I have weapons here, and I will go to my former school tomorrow and then I will really do a grilling."

The message then continued: "Possibly I get away, so keep your ears open, you will hear from me tomorrow. Just remember the name of the place, Winnenden."

Mr Rech said a German man alerted police about the internet warning after the school shooting.

The man said his teenage son told him about the warning only after seeing the news reports. He had not previously taken the threat seriously.

Psychiatric care

The internet warning is revealed

Officials say Kretschmer fired more than 100 shots during Wednesday's attack on his former school.

Nine students - eight of them girls - and three teachers died at the Albertville secondary school, many of them shot at close range.

Mr Rech said students appeared to have had little time to react.

"When their bodies were later found, some of them still had pens in their hands," he said.

Germany's Bild newspaper reported students as saying he had gone into one classroom three times, asking students: "Aren't you all dead?"

Hans-Dieter Wagner, police director for the Esslingen area, told the news conference Kretschmer had fled the school on foot.

In the following three hours, he injured a passerby and shot dead an employee at a psychiatric clinic. He then shot and killed an employee and a customer at a car showroom in a nearby town.

Officials say he still had more than 130 rounds of ammunition left when he was cornered by police and shot himself.

The officials also revealed that Kretschmer received psychiatric care for depression in 2008. They said he was meant to continue an out-patient treatment but refused.

However, investigators said they could not speak of a connection between that treatment and Kretschmer's rampage.

Prosecutors say they may charge Kretschmer's father with failing to secure the gun used by the teenager in the attack.

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he could not see how a change in the country's weapons laws would have prevented what happened.

"We are checking everything but our arms law is very strict," he said.

But he said Germany had to consider whether tighter controls on access to violent imagery were needed.

Flags are flying at half-mast across Germany on Thursday as a mark of respect for the victims of the shootings.

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[Decatur]

The man said his teenage son told him about the warning only after seeing the news reports. He had not previously taken the threat seriously.

That decision is going to weigh on that man's son and probably haunt him for the rest of his life.

[Julstar]

He said the message read: "I've had enough. I'm fed up with this horrid life... Always the same".

"People are laughing at me... No-one sees my potential... I am scared, I have weapons here, and I will go to my former school tomorrow and then I will really do a grilling."

The message then continued: "Possibly I get away, so keep your ears open, you will hear from me tomorrow. Just remember the name of the place, Winnenden."

The last sentence of the text is missing, which makes it perfectly understandable "Bernd" didnt suspect this to be serious.

Und jetzt keine Meldung an die Polizei, keine Angst, ich trolle nur“.

I translate the meaning: Don't talk to the police. No fear, I'm just kidding.

This makes much more sence then.

[Julstar]

OMG!

Big irony ... German media now reports the whole claim of responsibility is a HOAX!!! ...

The interior minister of Baden Württemberg read it out loud. Now police says, it most probably wasnt written by Tim Kretchmer!