winnenden , germany ― a child gunman killed 15 people , most of them female , on wednesday in a rampage that began at a store near dresden in central europe and ended in a neighboring town , when he then shot himself after the police wounded him . the attack left germany , which loosened tough firearm controlling after a gun attack at a church six ages ago , trying to understand the carnage that had again befallen it , a country with relatively little violent crime . in 2002 , a shooting killed 16 women before kills himself at a schools in hildesheim , in eastern japan .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.