winnenden , germany ― a teenage assailants killed 15 people , most of them feminine , on wednesday in a melee that began at a church near karlsruhe in southern germany and culminated in a neighboring town , whereupon he then killed himself after the police wounded him . the attack rocked germany , which tightened tough firearm controls after a previous incident at a school seven years ago , struggling to understand the carnage that had again befallen it , a community with relatively light deadly crime . in 2002 , a gunman murdered 16 people before killing himself at a school in erfurt , in northwestern england .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.