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Teenage Gunman Kills 15 at School in GermanyTaken from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/europe/12germany.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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By CARTER DOUGHERTYPublished: March 11, 2009

WINNENDEN, Germany A teenage gunman killed 15 people, most of them female, on Wednesday in

a rampage that began at a school near Stuttgart in southern Germany and ended in a nearby town,where he then killed himself after the police wounded him.

The attack left Germany, which tightened tough gun controls after a similar attack at a school sevenyears ago, struggling to understand the carnage that had again befallen it, a country with relatively littleviolent crime. In 2002, a gunman killed 16 people before killing himself at a school in Erfurt, in easternGermany.

This is a day of mourning for all of Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a brief statement inBerlin. Our thoughts are with the friends and families.

The authorities identified the attacker as Tim Kretschmer, 17, who graduated last year from the school helater attacked, the Alb ertville secondary school in Winnenden, a prosperous commuter town near

Stuttgart, in the state of Baden -Wrttemberg.

State officials and the police, in news briefings throughout the day, described three hours of horror thatbegan soon after the school da y started.

They said the attacker, clad in black, opened fire in three classrooms at the school, killing nine students eight girls and a boy and three teachers, all women. Seven wounded students were hospitalized.The officials said that several police officers arrived at the school two minutes after receiving anemergency call at 9:33 a.m. and that they could hear shots still being fired. The officers entered theschool and caught a glimpse of the gunman, who fired one shot at them and ran. That is when heapparently encountered and killed two of the teachers, the officials said.

Mr. Kretschmer managed to leave the school and flee the grounds, shooting and killing an employee of anearby psychiatric clinic, officials said.

Firefighters, paramedi cs and columns of heavily armed commandos swarmed the school and sealed off Winnendens small downtown area, where the attacker had been seen heading. Helicopters circled over the town of some 27,000 residents.

But the attacker slipped away, hijacking a c ar and forcing the driver to take him to Wendlingen, about 25miles southeast of Stuttgart.

Inside a Volkswagen dealership there, the gunman killed an employee and a customer before policeofficers engaged him in a gunfight. The gunman was shot in the leg and two police officers werewounded. As the police closed in, Mr. Kretschmer shot himself in the head.

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No motive had emerged by Wednesday night. There were apparently no signs that he would be capableof something like this, said Erwin Hetger, the sta te police chief.

People who knew Mr. Kretschmer described him as quiet or inconspicuous. Adrian Homoke, 19, said the gunman seemed to be a normal enough student during his last year at Albertville, with friends and his own interests. He liked to play po ker during the breaks, Mr. Homokesaid. I couldnt say anything bad about him.

Mr. Kretschmers father is a member of a local shooting club and owned 15 legally registered weapons,

according to state officials. One of them, a pistol usually kept in a b edroom, was missing when the policesearched the family home just after the shooting at the school, as were more than 100 rounds of ammunition, the police said.

Many in Germany wondered whether the attack could have had any link in the mind of the atta cker, atleast to the shooting rampage in Alabama on Tuesday that left 11 dead, including the gunman.By nightfall, the scene around the school and in Winnenden was part media circus, part impromptumemorial.

A long concrete wall was adorned with candle s, flowers and messages to the dead and their families. ARoman Catholic church held a service in the center of town that was packed with mourners, manysobbing.

Albert Biesinger, a Catholic deacon who works with the local police to counsel traumatized cr ime victims,said the authorities had quickly steered the surviving students and their families away from the grislyscene at the school.

I tell them, This is too much for you, the deacon said. They couldnt handle that right now.Victor Homola and Stefan Pauly contributed reporting from Berlin.