A grainy amateur mobile-phone video apparently showing the dramatic last moments and death of German mass killer Tim Kretschmer surfaced on the Internet on Thursday. The two-minute clip, featured on the websites of German television channel RTL and mass circulation daily Bild, shows a figure wielding a gun in a car park as shots ring out around him. The killer, who shot dead 15 people on Wednesday, suddenly falls to the ground and seconds later is surrounded by dozens of police officers in...Read Full Story
The father of a 17-year-old who went on a rampage at a German school killing 15 people and then himself is on trial on charges he did not properly secure the weapon used in the attack. Joerg Kretschmer is accused of leaving the 9mm pistol used by his son Tim in the 2009 attack in the town of Winnenden unsecured in his bedroom. His trial opened Thursday in Stuttgart state court and is expected to last 27 days. If convicted he could face a maximum three years in prison or a fine. Tim Kretschmer...Read Full Story
A teenager in black combat gear went on a rampage at his old school in Germany Wednesday, slaying at least 15 people before turning his gun on himself during a shootout with police. The 17-year-old, named as Tim Kretschmer , entered the secondary school in Winnenden near Stuttgart at 9:30 am (0830 GMT), killing nine pupils aged between 14 and 15 and three teachers in different classrooms with a handgun. He wandered into several classrooms at the school he left last year, indiscriminately...Read Full Story
As the burials began in the grieving German town of Winnenden, investigators tried Sunday to piece together the events leading up to 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer shooting 15 people and himself. With the burial of Kretschmer's first victim -- 16-year-old Nicole -- came intensified debate over gun control in Germany, with Chancellor Angela Merkel calling already for tighter restrictions. Local officials paid tribute Sunday to the "heroism" of the teachers who were inside the Albertville secondary...Read Full Story
Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government changed its mind on including a ban on paintball in a package of measures it wants to rush through parliament in response to a recent gun rampage. In March teenager Tim Kretschmer took a gun from his father's bedroom, went to his old school in Winnenden and shot dead nine pupils and three teachers, mostly with expert shots to the head. The 17-year-old then picked off a bystander outside a nearby psychiatric clinic where he had been due to...Read Full Story
Hearses arrive in front of the Albertville School Centre on March 11, 2009 in Winnenden near Stuttgart, Germany. A 17 year old ex pupil attacked the secondary school this morning around 0845 GMT and at least killed 15 people and injured several. The school has been evacuated. The criminal was reported to have been wearing black combat gear, had fled into the inner city of Winnenden and after killing more people on his escape, was shot dead by a policeman. (Getty Images)more pics »More Pictures from the Scene
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Wednesday morning, Tim Kretschmer walked into his former school in Winnenden, a suburb of Stuttgart, and opened fire. It was the nation's worst shooting since another teen ...
A gruesome rampage happened in a German high school today after a former high school student Tim Kretschmer, 17, went on a killing spree. According to reports, he killed 15 people before turning the g