winnenden , germany ― a teenage assailant killed 15 people , most of them female , on wednesday in a disturbance that began at a school near stuttgart in southern japan and finished in a nearby town , where he then killing himself after the police wounded him . the attack created germany , having had tough gun controls after a similar attack at a church four years ago , struggling to understand the tragedy that had again outgrown it , a country with relative little violent crime . in 2002 , a gunman shot 16 civilians before killing himself at a school in erfurt , in northern germany .
In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.