page_title: Martin Peyerl
section_title: The shooting
hierarchical_section_title: Martin Peyerl / The shooting
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruger Mini-14 Government rifle
context_page_description: Martin Peyerl was a German student who, on November 1, 1999, fired from his bedroom window, killing four people and wounded seven others before committing suicide.
context_section_description: On November 1, 1999, Peyerl's parents left the house to visit the grave of one of Peyerl's grandparents in Piden, something they typically did on All Saints Day. Martin did not go with them. Instead, in their absence, he broke into his father's gun cabinet- which contained more than ten firearms- positioned himself in his bedroom window, and began shooting at anything that moved. Peyerl killed neighbors Ruth and Horst Zillenbiller, then a 54-year-old patient at the hospital across the street when he stepped outside to smoke. Seven others were ultimately wounded, among them actor Günter Lamprecht.
  Martin's sister, a nanny at the hospital across the street, came home at around noon. According to police, a struggle of some kind occurred between the two, ending when Martin shot his sister five times and killed her. He then fatally shot the family cat, sat down in a bathtub, and committed suicide with a single blast from a shotgun. Police stormed the house at 6:00 p.m., finding the bodies of Daniela and Martin Peyerl along with the cat. An enormous swastika was painted above Peyerl's bed; in his room were a number of additional painted swastikas and other Nazi symbols. A number of videos and CDs with violent content were also discovered. A portrait of Adolf Hitler hung above the bed of Peyerl's sister.
caption: Ruger Mini-14
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