winnenden , deutschland ― a teenage gunman shot 15 people , most of them female , on tuesday in a frenzy that began at a hospital near stuttgart in southeast germany and ended in a nearby town , where he then killed himself after the police injured him . the attack departed germany , that tensed tough gun controls after a similar attack at a house seven years old , struggling to understands the carnage that had again misfortune it , a country with relatively little violent offense . in 2002 , a gunman killed 16 people before killing himself at a store in erfurt , in central germany .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.