The teenage gunman who murdered 15 people in southwestern Germany announced his intention to create a bloodbath just hours beforehand in an internet chatroom, a state official said on Thursday.
Could the Winnenden massacre have been prevented? With the nation still in shock, German newspapers in The Local’s media roundup engage in some soul-searching following the bloody school rampage in Baden-Württemberg.
<b>Is Germany at greater risk for school massacres such as Winnenden? Psychologist Jens Hoffmann from Darmstadt University discusses how the latest tragedy has revived memories of Erfurt and Columbine.</b>
<b>The dead gunman from Winnenden, Tim Kretschmer, had shot other teenagers before with his collection of air guns, alienating those who tried to befriend him, according to German media reports.</b>
<b>Authorities said they had found the first indications for the motive behind one of the worst school massacres in Germany’s history on Thursday, a day after a teen gunman murdered 15 people in the state of Baden-Württemberg.</b>
<b>All but one of the nine pupils killed and seven injured in a German school massacre on Wednesday were girls, a local official said. The three slain teachers were also women.</b>
<b>A teenage gunman who shot dead 15 people, including nine students and three teachers at his former school in southwestern Germany, killed himself after a shoot-out with police on Wednesday.</b>
Germany was in shock on Wednesday after one of the country’s deadliest school shootings ever left sixteen people dead. Chancellor Angela Merkel called the tragedy “incomprehensible.”
