First pictures of teenage schoolgirls shot by gunman who deliberately targeted women
Mar 13, 2009 German School Sooting
Smiling happily for the camera, these are three of the teenage girls shot dead by a crazed gunman at a German school.
Chantal Schill and Steffi, both 16, and Jana Schober , 14, stood little chance against Tim Kretschmer as he embarked on his murderous spree.
Authorities believe he deliberately targeted women as 11 of his 16 victims were female.
Victims: Chantal Schill (left) and Steffi (right) were both 16. It is believed Kretschmer deliberately targeted girls
Distraught: Students comfort each other in the wake of the shooting which has shattered their community
Jana Schober , 14, was gunned down as she attended school in Winnenden
Killing spree: Tim Kretschmer shot 16 people dead before shooting himself
candles and flowers outside the secondary school 'Albertville
Students mourn at the Albertville-Realschule school
Students mourn at the Albertville-Realschule school where a shooting incident took place in Winnenden March 12, 2009. A 17-year-old in black combat gear killed 15 people in southwest Germany on Wednesday in a shooting spree that started at his former school. The gunman, identified by police as Tim Kretschmer, entered the Albertville-Realschule in Winnenden and began firing with a 9-millimetre Beretta pistol at students in a classroom. (GERMANY CONFLICT SOCIETY)
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Germany school shootings: Video footage of final moments of gunman Tim Kretschmer
Mar 12, 2009 German School Sooting
Chilling new video footage shows the moment the German high school killer Tim Kretschmer turned the gun on himself after murdering 15 people, as details of his victims began to emerge.
By John Bingham in Winnenden and Gordon Rayner
Telegraph 12 Mar 2009
Kretschmer was captured on a mobile phone as he shot himself dead after being cornered by police 25 miles from his former school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart in south west Germany, where he killed nine pupils and three teachers.
He had been struck in the leg while trading gunfire with officers in an industrial estate in the town of Wendlingen after fleeing there in a hijacked car, holding its driver hostage.
A total of 16 people, including the gunman, died in the shooting spree after he went on the rampage in the Albertville high school in Winnenden, which he attended until last year.
Seven other children at the school suffered gunshot wounds while others broke their legs jumping out of windows in a desperate effort to get away.
All but one of the students he murdered were girls and all three dead teachers were female. One of them was found lying behind the desk where experiments were conducted in a science lab.
Detectives are working on the theory that Kretschmer, described as a shy loner who never had a girlfriend, was motivated by a grudge against girls, possibly after being snubbed by classmates.
At the vocational training college he had been attending more recently in the town of Waiblingen, students described the teenager, who loved table tennis and guns, as quiet but not unusual.
They dismissed claims Kretschmer, who shot his victims wearing black combat gear and a gasmask, had always dressed in dark colours.
Using a Beretta 9 mm pistol believed to have been owned by his father Jorg, a successful businessman, he aimed primarily at the children’s heads, suggesting he was not firing at random.
Among his victims were schoolgirls Selina Dogan, Chantal Schill and Jana Schober, according to the German newspaper Bild.
Police said there would have been more deaths had it not been for the extraordinary sacrifice of the teachers, who stood in Kretschmer’s way to protect their students.
Witnesses described how one of the women shielded a pupil while she looked defiantly into the killer’s eyes.
“He gunned her down with ice-cold efficiency,” a police spokesman said.
Kretschmer entered the school at about 9.30am, dressed in black combat gear and wearing a gas mask.
He opened fire on a class of 14- and 15-year-olds before moving through two other classrooms.
Some of his victims were found still clutching their pens.
His only words during the two-minute shooting spree were heard when he returned to the classroom where he had first opened fire, shouting: “Aren’t you all dead yet?”
Police were alerted to the massacre by one pupil who called for help on a mobile phone and were on the scene while he was still in the building.
According to some reports, they fired at him but missed as he fled towards a local psychiatric hospital where he shot a gardener before hijacking the car and forcing its driver to speed away.
As he reached a car showroom in Wendlingen he shot a salesman and customer dead before being cornered by armed police.
Officers raided his parents’ home in nearby Weiler Zum Stein, recovering 16 weapons, legally held by his father, a member of a local shooting club.
Flags across Germany are at half mast as the nation comes to grips with one of the world’s worst school massacres.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, said that the incident had been an “unimaginable”, “appalling crime”.
Neighbours in Weiler Zum Stein speculated about what drove him to the killing.
One said that he had put on a lot of weight lately while another said he had a collection of horror films.
Police gun down ex-student, 17, who massacred 16 people in German school shooting
Mar 12, 2009 German School Sooting
DailyMail
By Allan Hall and Mail Foreign Service
This image, taken from a Youtube video posted online after the shooting, is said to show gunman Tim Kretschmer at a table tennis tournament in 2004
A masked gunman who murdered 16 people in a massacre that began at a German school asked ‘Are you all dead yet?’ during his bloody rampage. Timothy Kretschmer, a 17-year-old former pupil of the school, was killed in a police shoot-out in a parking lot. His victims were primarily female. He had hijacked a car to escape the police dragnet after the massacre in Winnenden, a suburb of Stuttgart, this morning.
The body of a victim lies on the ground outside the school
Special commandos secure the crime scene after the horrifying attack
Shocked students peer from windows inside the school this morning after the attack
At 12.31pm local time he was killed in the car park of a shopping centre in nearby Weiblingen during a police shoot-out. He had apparently barricaded himself inside a supermarket after more than three hours on the run.
The school attack lasted just two minutes. The gunman killed nine students and three teachers at the school, as well as one person at a nearby clinic, before fleeing with a hostage in a car.
Two additional passers-by and two policemen seriously injured in the shoot-out. One of the injured victims, a girl, died later in hospital, bringing the total death toll to 17 including the gunman.
He paid particular interest to one classroom – room 10D – going in and out of it three times.
The last time, he asked: ‘Are you all dead yet?’
Students flee the school this morning. Some were forced to leap from windows to safety, while many ran from the school in tears
Police swarm the Albertville school in Winnenden today after the attack. Investigators have launched a massive manhunt after the gunman fled the scene
Reports said the gunman’s family owns a ’small arsenal’ of at least 18 guns that the father – understood to be a wealthy businessman – used for hunting. It is not known if the gunman used any of those guns in the massacre.
Police stormed his home shortly after the killing spree and took his mother into custody for questioning.
The attack took place this morning at 9.30am at the Albertville secondary school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart. About a thousand people were inside the school when the bloodbath began.
It is unclear what kind of weapon the gunman was using although eyewitnesses said it was a rifle that he had slung over his shoulder.
Commandos hold a hurried conference after the shooting
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Germany School Shooting
Mar 12, 2009 German School Sooting, Uncategorized
WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) — A gunman dressed in military gear killed 15 people Wednesday in a shooting spree in Germany, police said.
im Kretschmer, 17, began his rampage at a school where he used to be a student in Winnenden, a small town about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Stuttgart.
Most of the victims at the school were female — eight female students, three female teachers and one male student, said Heribert Rech, interior minister for Baden Wuerttemberg region.
Rech said: “They were completely taken by surprise. Some of the victims still had their pens in their hands.”
Kretschmer opened fire in three first floor classrooms, including a physics lab where a teacher was found dead behind her desk, Rech told a news conference.
Rech said police arrived in minutes. “This speedy intervention means they prevented further escalation of events.”
The shooting at the Albertville-Realschule Winnenden school began around 9:45 a.m. (4:45 a.m. EDT) and lasted about two minutes.
One student told CNN: “We heard that someone was inside shooting. Then we also saw a teacher who had blood on his hands because he wanted to help a female teacher who sacrificed herself for a student — she stood in front of a student to protect her.”
Kretschmer did not shoot wildly, Rech said, contradicting earlier police statements, but hit most of his victims in the head.
As the first police arrived at the school, he fled and killed a person working in a hospital nearby, then hijacked a car, taking the driver hostage.
He drove towards the nearby town of Wendlingen, but the car crashed on a sharp bend, Rech said.
The driver escaped and called police as Kretschmer ran away and towards a car salesroom in Wendlingen where he shot a salesperson and a customer, Rech said.
shooting rampage at German school
Mar 11, 2009 German School Sooting, News & Events
Teen gunman kills 16 in German shooting spree
German school shooting rampage
Mar 11, 2009 German School Sooting, News & Events
15 killed in German school shooting rampage
(CNN) — A 17-year-old former student, dressed in military gear, killed at least 15 people when he opened fire at a school in southwest Germany on Wednesday morning, police said.
Several others were wounded in the shooting in the small town of Winnenden, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Stuttgart.
The exact number of casualties was still not known, said police spokesman Herr Brenner.
The shootings happened at the Albertville-Realschule Winnenden school, a junior high school, about 9:30 a.m. About 1,000 students attend the school
Authorities sealed the town off and launched an intense manhunt for the gunman. Police said he is about 5′11, is 17 years old and is heavily armed.
Security at German schools has been an issue in the past. In November 2006, an 18-year-old former student strapped explosives to his body and went on a rampage at a middle school in western Germany, shooting and wounding six people — most of them students — before killing himself.
n July 2003, a 16-year-old student shot a teacher before taking his own life at a school in the southern German town of Coburg. A year earlier, 18 people were killed when an expelled student went on a shooting spree at his school in eastern Germany.
