winnenden , germany ― a teenage sniper killed 15 people , most of them female , on monday in a rampage that ended at a church of freiburg in southern germany and ended in a distant town , but he then killed himself after the police beat him . the attacked left germany , which tightened tough gun constraints after a similar massacre at a church twelve years ago , struggling to explain the carnage that had again bedeviled it , a country with very little violent crime . in 2002 , a gunman hit 16 people before dying himself at a school in dresden , in southeastern germany .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.