winnenden , germany ― a male gunman killed 15 individuals , most of them female , on wednesday in a disturbance that continued at a school near stuttgart in southern german and ended in a nearby town , where he then dead himself after the policemen stabbed him . the event left germany , that tighter tough gun controls after a similar incident at a location eight years after , straining to understand the carnage that had again calamities it , a country with relatively small reported crime . in 2002 , a gunman killed 16 people before killing himself at a prison in leipzig , in eastern poland .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.