Two killed in court shooting rampage - France 24 Two killed in court shooting rampage print Latest update : 2009-04-07 A gunman opened fire in a German court Tuesday, killing a woman before turning the gun on himself. The attack came less than a month after a teenager killed 15 people in a gun rampage in the German town of Winnenden. AFP - A gunman killed one person and then himself at a German courthouse Tuesday, police said, just four weeks after a deranged German teenager massacred 15 people before turning the gun on himself. Police spokesman Peter Kremer told AFP that the assailant, believed to be aged 60, had killed himself after opening fire at a hearing which was reportedly part of an inheritance case. The victim was a woman, possibly the shooter's sister, and another two people were wounded. It was not immediately clear whether the gunman was involved in the case being heard before the court or was simply a spectator. "We do not know at this time whether (the shooting) is linked to the case," said another police spokesman, Thomas Ploessl.

He said the courthouse, in the city of 63,000 people about 60 kilometres (40 miles) northeast of Munich, had been evacuated and barricaded. Because the case was civil and not criminal, people attending the hearing did not have to undergo security checks, the daily Bild newspaper reported on its website. The court employs 128 people including 34 judges, according to its website. The incident comes just four weeks after a 17-year-old boy gunned down 15 people in the southwestern German town of Winnenden, in a bloodbath that revived an emotional debate over gun laws. Tim Kretschmer returned to the secondary school that he had left last year with average marks on the morning of March 11, dressed in combat gear. He went to several classrooms, picking off his victims mostly with expert shots to the head. All but one of those killed at the school by the teenager were female. The teenage killer, a fan of violent "shoot-em-up" computer games and grisly horror films who was said to be clinically depressed, shot himself when police tried to apprehend him after killing three innocent bystanders while on the run.

He stole the weapon, a Beretta pistol, from his father's stocked gun cabinet after cracking its security code. The case gave way to an outpouring of sympathy across the country for the victims and pledges from leading politicians to firm up gun laws. President Horst Koehler backed families of the victims who appealed in an open letter for stricter weapons laws and a ban on gory video games. Gun laws were tightened considerably in the wake of a massacre at a school in Erfurt in 2002 that left 17 dead including the gunman. Rolling news channel NTV said Tuesday there are 10 million legal weapons in Germany. Date created : 2009-04-07 Lessons resume after German school massacre | News | Expatica Germany Lessons resume after German school massacre 24th March 2009, 0 comments Teaching at the secondary school had been suspended since Kretschmer's massacre, carried out with a gun taken from his father's bedroom. Berlin -- Normal lessons resumed on Monday for students at a school in Germany where a teenager massacred nine students and three teachers earlier this month, the school said.

The school where 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer went on the rampage nearly two weeks ago remained closed however and lessons for the 600 students at the Albertville Realschule in Winnenden near Stuttgart were held elsewhere. Teaching at the secondary school had been suspended since Kretschmer's massacre -- carried out with a gun taken from his father's bedroom -- with regular lessons being replaced by psychological counselling sessions. Kretschmer returned to the school that he had left last year with average marks on the morning of March 11, dressed in combat gear. He went to several classrooms, picking off his victims mostly with expert shots to the head. All but one of those killed at the school by the teenager were female. Kretschmer reportedly went into classroom 10d three times, hissing on the third visit: "Aren't you all dead yet?" With police by this stage at the school, Kretschmer proceeded on foot to a nearby clinic where he had been due to receive treatment for depression, shooting dead his 13th victim outside the building.

Meanwhile, an unsuspecting Igor Wolf was sitting in his Volkswagen waiting for his wife, when Kretschmer yanked open the back door, jumped into the back, shoved his nine millimetre Beretta in Wolf's face and said: "Drive. Quickly." Wolf later said in a magazine interview that Kretschmer had told him that his killing spree was all "for fun" and that he wanted to find another school. At one town, "we stopped at traffic lights. I thought about just tearing the door open and running away. But there were other people going about their business. A woman with a pram, other children." Wolf's roughly two-hour-long ordeal came to an end when he deliberately crashed the car and fled with the keys, forcing Kretschmer to continue on foot. Kretschmer was now around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the school in the town of Wendlingen, where his rampage was to end -- but not before victims 14 and 15 were dead. A massive police operation was on his trail, with hundreds of armed commandos assisted by helicopters and dogs, and Kretschmer's short life ended after a dramatic shootout with police in a car park.

Investigators believed he turned the gun on himself. On the surface, there was little to indicate that Kretschmer was a mass killer in the making -- an "unremarkable" and "reserved" trainee salesman who enjoyed working out at the gym and was a keen table-tennis player. With the benefit of hindsight, however, there were some clues: he had been suffering from depression, enjoyed grisly horror movies and violent "shoot-em-up" computer games. The massacre has prompted much soul-searching in Germany, where gun laws were tightened considerably in the wake of a massacre at a school in Erfurt in 2002 that left 17 dead including the gunman. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Horst Koehler attended a memorial service on Saturday in the town, beamed out on some 20 giant screens to the 7,500 people outside. Koehler backed families of the victims who appealed in an open letter for even stricter gun laws and a ban on gory video games.

AFP/Expatica Students return to class after school massacre - The Local Students return to class after school massacre AFP 23 March 2009 18:15 CET+01:00 Normal lessons resumed on Monday for pupils at a school in Germany where a teenager massacred nine students and three teachers earlier this month, the school said. The school where 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer went on the rampage nearly two weeks ago remained closed however and lessons for the some 600 pupils at the Albertville Realschule in Winnenden near Stuttgart were held elsewhere. Teaching at the secondary school had been suspended since Kretschmer's massacre - carried out with a gun taken from his father's bedroom - with regular lessons being replaced by psychological counselling sessions. Kretschmer returned to the school that he had left last year with average marks on the morning of March 11, dressed in combat gear. He went to several classrooms, picking off his victims mostly with expert shots to the head. All but one of those killed at the school by the teenager were female.

Kretschmer reportedly went into classroom 10d three times, hissing on the third visit: "Aren't you all dead yet?" With police by this stage at the school, Kretschmer proceeded on foot to a nearby clinic where he had been due to receive treatment for depression, shooting dead his 13th victim outside the building. Meanwhile an unsuspecting Igor Wolf was sitting in his Volkswagen waiting for his wife, when Kretschmer yanked open the back door, jumped into the back, shoved his nine millimetre Beretta in Wolf's face and said: "Drive. Quickly." Wolf later said in a magazine interview that Kretschmer had told him that his killing spree was all "for fun" and that he wanted to find another school. At one town, "we stopped at traffic lights. I thought about just tearing the door open and running away. But there were other people going about their business. A woman with a pram, other children." Wolf's roughly two-hour-long ordeal came to an end when he deliberately crashed the car and fled with the keys, forcing Kretschmer to continue on foot.

Kretschmer was now around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the school in the town of Wendlingen, where his rampage was to end - but not before victims 14 and 15 were dead. A massive police operation was on his trail, with hundreds of armed commandos assisted by helicopters and dogs, and Kretschmer's short life ended after a dramatic shootout with police in a car park. Investigators believed he turned the gun on himself. On the surface, there was little to indicate that Kretschmer was a mass killer in the making - an "unremarkable" and "reserved" trainee salesman who enjoyed working out at the gym and was a keen table-tennis player. With the benefit of hindsight, however, there were some clues: he had been suffering from depression, enjoyed grisly horror movies and violent "shoot-em-up" computer games. The massacre has prompted much soul-searching in Germany, where gun laws were tightened considerably in the wake of a massacre at a school in Erfurt in 2002 that left 17 dead including the gunman.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Horst Köhler attended a memorial service on Saturday in the town, beamed out on some 20 giant screens to the 7,500 people outside. Köhler backed families of the victims who appealed in an open letter for even stricter gun laws and a ban on gory video games. Munich maniac had a book called 'Why Kids Kill' in his rucksack | Daily Mail Online Share this article Share Last night's massacre has haunting parallels with the attack carried out by Kretschmer, who opened fire on staff and teachers before carjacking a vehicle and escaping. Kretschmer then killed himself, just as Sonboly did last night, fleeing over rooftops after killing nine people, then committing suicide. According to police and clinic staff Kreschmer had been repeatedly treated for clinical depression, but his family said he had never received psychiatric treatment. Police said today that Sonboly, who they described as 'deranged', may have also been getting 'psychological treatment'.

There were also reams of paper in his room on the Erfurt massacre in April 2002, when 19-year-old Robert Steinhauser took revenge on his school teacher and former classmates. He killed 13 teachers, two pupils and a policeman before committing suicide. A video purporting to show the shooter, dressed in black, firing 20 shots was posted on Twitter yesterday Today, mourners gathered at the scene in tears, laying floral tributes for the people killed in the attack After the incident, footage showed him telling onlookers he had been bullied for years as they hurled abuse at him. The book found in Sonboly's bag, shows how bullying, computer addiction and neglect are decisive factors that drive people to mass murder, some of which he may have suffered. Peter Langman's book studies ten school massacres, including the Columbine shootings in the US, in which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher. They also then committed suicide after the well-planned attacks in which they shot fellow students and used more than 100 explosive devices.

Robert Heimberger, the head of Bavaria's criminal police, said it appeared Sonboly had hacked a Facebook account and sent a message inviting people to come to the mall for a free giveaway. The posting, sent from a young woman's account, urged people to come to the mall at 4pm, saying: 'I'll give you something if you want, but not too expensive.' The woman reported that her account had been hacked shortly after it was sent out. Kretschmer then killed himself after escaping the scene (pictured) in 2009, just as Sonboly did last night, fleeing over rooftops after killing nine people, then committing suicide The book found in Sonboly's bag examines the Columbine massacre at a high school in Colorado (pictured, kids cowering behind a car) in which 12 students and a teacher were killed It has initially been thought that Sonboly may have been radicalised but police have since confirmed that there is 'no link to Islamic State' after raiding his home this morning. The focus on the suspected shooter's motives and background takes place in the context of a fierce debate about Germany's asylum policy and integration of its immigrants.

Bavaria, in particular, became the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers who have arrived in the last couple of years. Hate crimes and attacks against migrants exploded after arrivals, mostly from the Middle East and Africa, reached record levels in 2015. Some 923 offences against refugee shelters were reported in 2015 including 177 acts of violence, a sharp rise from the previous year, according to figures from the interior ministry. Read more: Police uncover astonishing weapons cache of another German teenager as country is hit by wave of copycat threats | Daily Mail Online Police uncover astonishing weapons cache of another German teenager as country is hit by wave of copycat threats comments This lethal collection of arms was found in the home of a 17-year-old German boy just 24 hours after another teenager in the country killed 15 people in a classroom bloodbath. Police swooped on the grammar school pupil's flat after a tip-off that he had boasted of 'taking out the trash' at his school. When armed officers burst into the home in Schwelm, western Germany, they found automatic weapons, handguns and chemicals ready to be mixed to make bombs.

A collection of weapons and chemicals found at the home of a 17-year-old school boy in Schwelm, Germany, two days after Tim Kretschmer’s rampage A police spokesman said: 'The youth had access to an arsenal of weapons that was truly frightening in its size.' The teenager's arrest came as a wave of copycat threats against schools swept across Germany following 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer's rampage in Winnenden on Wednesday. In one town, a 15-year-old wrote the words 'shooting spree' in chalk in his schoolyard, and a school in south-west Freiburg was evacuated after a bomb threat. Victims: Chantal Schill (left) and Steffi (right) were both 16. It is believed Kretschmer deliberately targeted girls Murdered: 14-year-old Jana Schober (left) was gunned down as she attended school in Winnenden whilst a victim identified as 'Nina' is also being mourned In Ilsfeld, only 20 miles from Winnenden, a school was also closed yesterday after yet another online threat. But the Schwelm arsenal seemed to be evidence of an impending attack, rather than a hoax.

Police said the 17-year-old boy attended a grammar school in the town of Ennepetal. He was first brought to their attention four days ago when the mother of a fellow pupil called them, expressing concern about the teenager's boasts to other children that he would kill pupils at his school. WATCH VIDEO OF KRETSCHMER BELOW Enlarge It is unclear why he was not detained until after the bloodbath in Winnenden. The boy was arrested at his school at the same time as police raided his bedroom at the apartment where he lived with his parents. As well as the weapons, officers found a suitcase containing the bomb-making materials. The pupil was found to have accessed school computers earlier in the week seeking information about building a bomb. Killing spree: Tim Kretschmer shot 16 people dead before shooting himself The boy, who had last year been sent for psychiatric counselling for assaulting a teacher, was being cared for in a mental hospital last night. He denied plotting a massacre, saying instead he was just a keen 'weapons collector'.

The threats come as the investigation into the Kretschmer school massacre suffered a setback when it was revealed that a warning posted on an internet chatroom by the 17-year-old killer was a hoax. Police and Stuttgart prosecutors said that 'in the course of the afternoon, doubts arose about the veracity of the Internet chat'. Emotional: Students light candles at a memorial at Albertville School today But police spokesman Klaus Hinderer said a search of Kretschmer's computer had shown no trace of his having made the chatroom posting. Kretschmer was said to have posted the message on an online chatroom just hours before the massacre. The note to another chatroom user with the online name Bernd is believed to have read: 'I have weapons here and I'm going to my old school. I've had enough. I am fed-up with this life. The body of a victim lies on the ground outside the school 'Everybody laughs at me and nobody recognises my potential. I mean it seriously, Bernd. I have weapons here and I am going to my old school tomorrow.' However, last night doubts emerged over the veracity of the message.

Police spokesman Klaus Hinderer said a search of Kretschmer's computer showed no trace of the warning. 'We are looking into claims that this message is not genuine,' he added. 'At the moment we are not 100 per cent sure either way.' A message posted on the site - krautchan.net - also read: 'No killing spree was announced here.' According to internet experts, the alleged message was actually a faked image that was posted on the site at 4.57pm on Wednesday. Kretschmer died at 12.30pm that day. Bullet holes in the window of a car dealership at the shopping centre where the gunman died in a police shoot-out have been numbered. There are nearly 90 Blood is seen at the crime scene outside the car dealership in Wendlingen where a salesman and a customer died He walked into his old school, Albertville Secondary School in Winnenden, near Stuttgart in Germany, and gunned down nine pupils and three teachers. After killing another three people away from the school, he shot himself after a stand-off with police.

Police have released a photo of the 9mm Beretta gun used in the shooting spree Yesterday, as the first of Kretschmer's victims were named, it also emerged the teenager had been treated for depression and appeared to harbour a hatred of women. Eleven of his 15 victims were female. Investigator Siegfried Mahler said Kretschmer had visited a psychiatrist five times between April and September last year. Although he was supposed to continue his treatment at another clinic, he did not show up. Just three weeks ago, it is understood that Kretschmer wrote a note to his family telling them of his unhappiness. Fabienne Boehm, who met Kretschmer recently through a friend, said: 'He wrote to his parents that he's suffering and he can't go on. He was teased by others, felt bullied.' Reports said that he had grown frustrated in recent months at being unable to make friends. A neighbour also claimed Kretschmer displayed a hatred of women. He said: 'In the park when I met him he would talk about this teacher and say he was going to "put her on the trash heap".

Watertown Daily Times | Teen had been planning German attack for a year Teen had been planning German attack for a year BLOOMBERG PUBLISHED: SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2016 AT 5:00 PM PREV A A MUNICH — German police said Sunday the teenage gunman who went on a rampage at a shopping center Friday, leaving nine people dead, had no ties to the Islamic State or other extremist groups, but he had been planning his attack for a year and may have been inspired by a similar assault by another German youth in 2009. At a news conference, German authorities said evidence continued to support their theory that the gunman was “obsessed” with mass killings and may have been a depressed loner who was bullied in school. In the southwestern city of Reutlingen on Sunday, a man with a machete killed a woman and injured two others, the Associated Press reported, citing German media reports. He was then arrested by police.

Robert Heimberger, head of the Bavarian criminal police, said the gunman in the Munich attack had last year visited the German town of Winnenden, the scene of a similar shooting rampage seven years ago by a 17-year-old that left 15 students and teachers dead at his former school. The Munich shooter took photographs at the site, authorities said. German police also said Sunday it was likely the pistol used in the Munich attack was purchased via the “darknet,” a corner of the Internet where users employ encryption and special software to trade restricted items, pornography, ideas, files and whistle-blowing alerts to circumvent government snooping. The southern German city’s police chief said investigators searching the assailant’s family apartment found a trove of electronic data and written materials suggesting that he was fascinated by shooting rampages before he went on one of his own Friday afternoon. The items recovered included a book, translated into German, by a U.S.

academic on school shootings titled “Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters.” “He was very intensely interested in the subject,” said the Munich police chief, Hubertus Andrae, who described the mass shooting as a “classic act by a deranged person.” Authorities did not release the name of the assailant, but German media reported that his name was David Ali Sonboly, the 18-year-old son of a limousine driver and a department store clerk who was born and raised in Munich. The parents migrated to Germany from Iran. The German Iranian teen may have been the target of intense bullying by peers, police said. In a video taken during the rampage, Sonboly complains of being bullied. Instead of being inspired by Islamic State terrorism, police investigators said, Sonboly may have been influenced in some way by the Norwegian mass murderer and domestic terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Munich authorities said there was “an obvious link” between the Munich shooter and the massacre carried out by Breivik on July 22, 2011.

Friday’s shooting in Munich — the third mass attack in Europe since the Bastille Day truck carnage in Nice, France, this month- took place on the fifth anniversary of Breivik’s attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoya. Breivik killed 77 people, first by exploding a bomb in a van and then by stalking his victims with a gun at a summer camp. At the time, Breivik released a statement calling for the deportation of Muslims, whom he decried as enemies alongside “cultural Marxists.” The news service DPA reported, citing a German security official, that the killer had not been known to police but that he admired the teenager who killed 15 people in Winnenden in 2009. A security officer close to the case, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is active, said the shooter “behaved like he was in a video game.” The official called the assailant “cold and methodical.” It appeared that he targeted “foreign-looking people” and that he aimed at their heads, he said. In one case, the shooter may have returned to one wounded victim and shot him again, according to video examined by police.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday described Sonboly’s attack as “a night of horror.” “We’re grieving with a heavy heart for those who will never return to their families,” she said in a brief statement from Berlin after a meeting of her security cabinet. “We’re suffering with them.” In front of the shuttered Olympia shopping mall, where the rampage took place, mourners left flowers and lit candles under rainy skies. Church bells tolled throughout the day, and flags flew at half-staff. Stefan Dessner, a retiree, placed a bouquet on the sidewalk. “This was a terrible day,” he said, wondering whether the world was “going crazy.” He mentioned the youth of the victims. Most of the nine killed were younger than 18, including three 14-year-olds. And most of the children had been born to parents with migrant backgrounds. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière cautioned that the killer’s motives were still being investigated but asserted that there were no links to international terrorist groups. Maizière said that the killer had been “bullied by peers” and that violent video games had probably helped inspire the attack.

Of the victims, Maizière said the young age of many of them “will break your heart.” “How is it possible for society to prevent these attacks?” he asked, without providing an answer. Officials said they have found no suicide note or other statement of intent. Sonboly did not have a criminal record but “may have had a mental disorder,” according to Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, Munich’s prosecutor. Maizière said the use of David as a first name could suggest that the killer had converted to Christianity from Islam. But his parents said he was not a practicing member of any religion, German media reported. Whatever the killer’s motives, he acted alone, Munich’s police chief said. “We are talking about a perpetrator without any political background,” the Munich prosecutor added. The rampage, however, appears to have been meticulously planned. Authorities said they were investigating the possibility that the killer had lured his intended victims to a local McDonald’s by hacking into a Facebook account and offering free food. The restaurant was the scene of the first moments of the killing, with at least four people dying there, after Sonboly emerged from the restroom dressed in black, wearing a red backpack and firing a semiautomatic handgun.

He then crossed the street and entered a mall, continuing to shoot as panic spread. In addition to the dead, 27 people were injured, some seriously. Amateur video filmed during the rampage shows the shooter’s exchange with a rooftop heckler who swears at him and calls him a foreigner. The assailant shouted back, “I am German!” He also said, “Because of you, I was bullied for seven years.” The killer was armed with a Glock semiautomatic pistol that had its serial number scratched out, suggesting that it had been obtained illegally. He had about 300 rounds of ammunition and still had multiple cartridges in a bag when he shot himself in the head, ending the slaughter hours after it began. Merkel acknowledged that the frequency of the recent attacks has been unnerving. But she expressed confidence in German security services and assured the nation that investigators were doing all they could to get to the bottom of both Friday night’s rampage and an ax attack on a train earlier in the week. Commenting rules: Stick to the topic of the article/letter/editorial. When responding to issues raised by other commenters, do not engage in personal attacks or name-calling.

Timeline of Worldwide School Shootings Timeline of Worldwide School and Mass Shootings Gun-related tragedies in the U.S. and around the world The following table lists the worldwide mass and school shootings from 1996 to the present. Find the date, location, and a short description of each incident. Feb. 2, 1996 Moses Lake, Wash. Two students and one teacher killed, one other wounded when 14-year-old Barry Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class. March 13, 1996 Dunblane, Scotland 16 children and one teacher killed at Dunblane Primary School by Thomas Hamilton, who then killed himself. 10 others wounded in attack. April 28-29, 1996 Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia Martin Bryant, age 28, opened fire at a penal colony, killing 35 people and wounding 23. It was Australia's worst mass killing. Feb. 19, 1997 Principal and one student killed, two others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16. March 1997 Eight people (six students and two others) at two schools killed by Mohammad Ahman al-Naziri.

Oct. 1, 1997 Pearl, Miss. Two students killed and seven wounded by Luke Woodham, 16, who was also accused of killing his mother. He and his friends were said to be outcasts who worshiped Satan. Dec. 1, 1997 West Paducah, Ky. Three students killed, five wounded by Michael Carneal, 14, as they participated in a prayer circle at Heath High School. Dec. 15, 1997 Stamps, Ark. Two students wounded. Colt Todd, 14, was hiding in the woods when he shot the students as they stood in the parking lot. March 24, 1998 Jonesboro, Ark. Four students and one teacher killed, ten others wounded outside as Westside Middle School emptied during a false fire alarm. Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, shot at their classmates and teachers from the woods. April 24, 1998 Edinboro, Pa. One teacher, John Gillette, killed, two students wounded at a dance at James W. Parker Middle School.

Andrew Wurst, 14, was charged. May 19, 1998 Fayetteville, Tenn. One student killed in the parking lot at Lincoln County High School three days before he was to graduate. The victim was dating the ex-girlfriend of his killer, 18-year-old honor student Jacob Davis. May 21, 1998 Springfield, Ore. Two students killed, 22 others wounded in the cafeteria at Thurston High School by 15-year-old Kip Kinkel. Kinkel had been arrested and released a day earlier for bringing a gun to school. His parents were later found dead at home. June 15, 1998 One teacher and one guidance counselor wounded by a 14-year-old boy in the school hallway. April 20, 1999 Littleton, Colo. 14 students (including killers) and one teacher killed, 23 others wounded at Columbine High School in the nation's deadliest school shooting. Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school.

At the end of their hour-long rampage, they turned their guns on themselves. April 28, 1999 Taber, Alberta, Canada One student killed, one wounded at W. R. Myers High School in first fatal high school shooting in Canada in 20 years. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, had dropped out of school after he was severely ostracized by his classmates. May 20, 1999 Conyers, Ga. Six students injured at Heritage High School by Thomas Solomon, 15, who was reportedly depressed after breaking up with his girlfriend. Nov. 19, 1999 Deming, N.M. Victor Cordova Jr., 12, shot and killed Araceli Tena, 13, in the lobby of Deming Middle School. Dec. 6, 1999 Fort Gibson, Okla. Four students wounded as Seth Trickey, 13, opened fire with a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fort Gibson Middle School. Dec. 7, 1999 One teacher and three students wounded by a 17-year-old student. Feb.

29, 2000 Mount Morris Township, Mich. Six-year-old Kayla Rolland shot dead at Buell Elementary School near Flint, Mich. The assailant was identified as a six-year-old boy with a .32-caliber handgun. March 2000 Branneburg, Germany One teacher killed by a 15-year-old student, who then shot himself. The shooter has been in a coma ever since. March 10, 2000 Savannah, Ga. Two students killed by Darrell Ingram, 19, while leaving a dance sponsored by Beach High School. May 26, 2000 Lake Worth, Fla. One teacher, Barry Grunow, shot and killed at Lake Worth Middle School by Nate Brazill, 13, with .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol on the last day of classes. Sept. 26, 2000 Two students wounded with the same gun during a fight at Woodson Middle School. Jan. 17, 2001 One student shot and killed in front of Lake Clifton Eastern High School. Jan.

18, 2001 One student killed by two boys, ages 17 and 19. March 5, 2001 Santee, Calif. Two killed and 13 wounded by Charles Andrew Williams, 15, firing from a bathroom at Santana High School. March 7, 2001 Williamsport, Pa. Elizabeth Catherine Bush, 14, wounded student Kimberly Marchese in the cafeteria of Bishop Neumann High School; she was depressed and frequently teased. March 22, 2001 Granite Hills, Calif. One teacher and three students wounded by Jason Hoffman, 18, at Granite Hills High School. A policeman shot and wounded Hoffman. March 30, 2001 Gary, Ind. One student killed by Donald R. Burt, Jr., a 17-year-old student who had been expelled from Lew Wallace High School. Nov. 12, 2001 Chris Buschbacher, 17, took two hostages at the Caro Learning Center before killing himself. Jan. 15, 2002 A teenager wounded two students at Martin Luther King Jr. High School. Feb.

19, 2002 Freising, Germany Two killed in Eching by a man at the factory from which he had been fired; he then traveled to Freising and killed the headmaster of the technical school from which he had been expelled. He also wounded another teacher before killing himself. April 26, 2002 Erfurt, Germany 13 teachers, two students, and one policeman killed, ten wounded by Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, at the Johann Gutenberg secondary school. Steinhaeuser then killed himself. April 29, 2002 One teacher killed, one wounded by Dragoslav Petkovic, 17, who then killed himself. October 28, 2002 Tucson, Ariz. Robert S. Flores Jr., 41, a student at the nursing school at the University of Arizona, shot and killed three female professors and then himself. April 14, 2003 New Orleans, La. One 15-year-old killed, and three students wounded at John McDonogh High School by gunfire from four teenagers (none were students at the school). The motive was gang-related.

April 24, 2003 Red Lion, Pa. James Sheets, 14, killed principal Eugene Segro of Red Lion Area Junior High School before killing himself. Sept. 24, 2003 Two students are killed at Rocori High School by John Jason McLaughlin, 15. Sept. 28, 2004 Carmen de Patagones, Argentina Three students killed and 6 wounded by a 15-year-old Argentininan student in a town 620 miles south of Buenos Aires. March 21, 2005 Red Lake, Minn. Jeff Weise, 16, killed grandfather and companion, then arrived at school where he killed a teacher, a security guard, 5 students, and finally himself, leaving a total of 10 dead. Nov. 8, 2005 Jacksboro, Tenn. One 15-year-old shot and killed an assistant principal at Campbell County High School and seriously wounded two other administrators. Aug. 24, 2006 Essex, Vt.

Christopher Williams, 27, looking for his ex-girlfriend at Essex Elementary School, shot two teachers, killing one and wounding another. Before going to the school, he had killed the ex-girlfriend's mother. Sept. 13, 2006 Montreal, Canada Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon at Dawson College. Anastasia De Sousa, 18, died and more than a dozen students and faculty were wounded before Gill killed himself. Sept. 27, 2006 Bailey, Colo. Adult male held six students hostage at Platte Canyon High School and then shot and killed Emily Keyes, 16, and himself. Sept. 29, 2006 A 15-year-old student shot and killed Weston School principal John Klang. Oct. 3, 2006 Nickel Mines, Pa. 32-year-old Carl Charles Roberts IV entered the one-room West Nickel Mines Amish School and shot 10 schoolgirls, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years old, and then himself. Five of the girls and Roberts died. Jan. 3, 2007 Tacoma, Wash.

Douglas Chanthabouly, 18, shot fellow student Samnang Kok, 17, in the hallway of Henry Foss High School. April 16, 2007 Blacksburg, Va. A 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded. Sept. 21, 2007 Dover, Del. A Delaware State Univesity Freshman, Loyer D. Brandon, shot and wounded two other Freshman students on the University campus. Brandon is being charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless engagement, as well as a gun charge. Oct. 10, 2007 Cleveland, Ohio A 14-year-old student at a Cleveland high school, Asa H. Coon, shot and injured two students and two teachers before he shot and killed himself. The victims' injuries were not life-threatening. Nov.

7, 2007 Tuusula, Finland An 18-year-old student in southern Finland shot and killed five boys, two girls, and the female principal at Jokela High School. At least 10 others were injured. The gunman shot himself and died from his wounds in the hospital. Feb. 8, 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana A nursing student shot and killed two women and then herself in a classroom at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. Feb. 11, 2008 A 17-year-old student at Mitchell High School shot and wounded a classmate in gym class. Feb. 12, 2008 Oxnard, California A 14-year-old boy shot a student at E.O. Green Junior High School causing the 15-year-old victim to be brain dead. Feb. 14, 2008 DeKalb, Illinois Gunman killed five students and then himself, and wounded 17 more when he opened fire on a classroom at Northern Illinois University. The gunman, Stephen P. Kazmierczak, was identified as a former graduate student at the university in 2007. Sept.

23, 2008 Kauhajoki, Finland A 20-year-old male student shot and killed at least nine students and himself at a vocational college in Kauhajok, 330km (205 miles) north of the capital, Helsinki. Nov. 12, 2008 Fort Lauderdale, Florida A 15-year-old female student was shot and killed by a classmate at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale. March 11, 2009 Winnenden, Germany Fifteen people were shot and killed at Albertville Technical High School in southwestern Germany by a 17-year-old boy who attended the same school. April 30, 2009 Azerbaijan, Baku A Georgian citizen of Azerbaijani descent killed 12 students and staff at Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. Several others were wounded. November 5, 2009 Killeen, Texas A shooting at the Fort Hood army post kills 13 and injures 29. Ten of those killed are military personnel, while one is a civilian. The alleged shooter is Maj.

Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, was shot four times by an officer on the scene, but he survived the attack. Feb. 5, 2010 Madison, Alabama At Discovery Middle School, a ninth-grader was shot by another student during a class change. The boy, whose name was not released, pulled out a gun and shot Todd Brown in the head while walking the hallway. Brown later died at Huntsville Hospital. Feb. 12, 2010 Huntsville, Alabama During a meeting on campus, Amy Bishop, a biology professor, began shot her colleagues, killing three and wounding three others. A year earlier, Bishop had been denied tenure. March 9, 2010 Columbus, Ohio A man opens fire at Ohio State University, killing two employees and wounding one other. The shooter had recently received an "unsatisfactory" job evaluation and was going to be fired on March 13. Jan. 5, 2011 Omaha, Nebraska Two people were killed and two more injured in a shooting at Millard South High School. Shortly after being suspended from school, the shooter returned and shot the assistant principal, principal, and the school nurse.

The shooter then left campus and took his own life. Jan. 8, 2011 Tuscon, Arizona Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in an assassination attempt. At least 17 others are shot by a gunman, identified as Jared Lee Loughner, who opened fire on the congresswoman's constituent meeting outside a local grocery store. Six people are fatally wounded, including U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, and a young girl. Jan. 5, 2011 Houston, Texas Two people opened fire during a Worthing High School powder-puff football game. One former student died. Five other people were injured. April 7, 2011 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A 23-year-old former student returned to his public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and began firing, killing 12 children and seriously wounding more than a dozen others, before shooting himself in the head. While Brazil has seen gang-related violence in urban areas, this was the worst school shooting the country has ever seen. May 10, 2011 San Jose, California Three people were killed in a parking garage at San Jose State University.

Two former students were found dead on the fifth floor of the garage. A third, the suspected shooter, died later at the hospital. July 22, 2011 Tyrifjorden, Buskerud, Norway A gunman disguised as a policeman opened fire at a camp for young political activists on the island of Utoya. The gunman kills 68 campers, including personal friends of Prime Minister Stoltenberg. Police arrested Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian who had been been linked to an anti-Islamic group. Dec. 8, 2011 Blacksburg, Virginia A Virginia Tech police officer was shot and killed by a 22-year old student of Radford University. The shooting took place in a parking lot on Virginia Tech's campus. Feb. 10, 2012 A 14-year-old student shot himself in front of 70 fellow students. Feb. 27, 2012 Chardon, Ohio At Chardon High School, a former classmate opened fire, killing three students and injuring six. Arrested shortly after the incident, the shooter said that he randomly picked students.

March 6, 2012 Jacksonville, Florida Shane Schumerth, a 28-year-old teacher at Episcopal High School, returned to the campus after being fired and shot and killed the headmistress, Dale Regan, with an assault rifle. March 19, 2012 Toulouse, France Mohammed Merah, a French man of Algerian descent, shot and killed a rabbi, two of his children, and another child at a Jewish school. Police believe he had earlier shot and killed three paratroopers. Merah said he was a member of Al Qaeda and that he was seeking revenge for the killing of Palestinian children. April 2, 2012 Oakland, Calif. One Goh, a 43-year-old former student at Oikos University, a Christian school populated by mostly Korean and Korean-Americans, opened fire on the campus, killing seven people and wounding several others. July 20, 2012 Aurora, Colo. During a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises, a gunman opens fire on the crowded theater. At least 12 people are killed and 38 others are wounded.

The suspect, James Holmes, set off a smoke device in the front of the theater before opening fire. Directly after the incident, Holmes, age 24, was arrested in a parking lot behind the theater. August 5, 2012 Oak Creek, Wis. A gunman opens fire at a Sikh temple, killing six people and wounding three. Police shot and killed the suspect, Wade Michael Page, after the attack. Page, a neo-Nazi, served in the U.S. Army from 1992 to 1998. December 11, 2012 Portland, Ore. Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, opened fire in the Clackamas Town Center mall, located 11 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon. Using an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle, Roberts killed two people and wounded one other. He then took his own life. December 14, 2012 Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza, 20, killed 20 children and six others at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. He killed his mother, Nancy, at her home prior to the massacre at the school. Lanza committed suicide after the rampage.

The shooting was the second deadliest in U.S. history, behind the 2007 shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute that claimed 32 people. September 16, 2013 Washington, DC Former Navy reservist Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard, near the U.S. Capitol. He was killed in a shootout with police. Alexis was employed at the base by a military subcontractor. September 21, 2013 Nairobi, Kenya Shabab militants, who are based in Somalia, attacked an upscale mall, killing nearly 70 people and wounding about 175. The siege lasted for three days, with persistent fighting between government troops and militants. The attack was meticulously planned, and the militants proved to be challenging for the government to dislodge from the Westgate mall. October 21, 2013 Sparks, Nevada A middle-school student shoots and kills Michael Landsberry, a math teacher at Sparks Middle School. The student then shot himself in front of other students.

April 2, 2014 Killeen, Texas An Iraq war veteran opens fire at the Fort Hood Army base and kills three people before turning the gun on himself. At least 16 people are injured. The suspect, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Pentagon. Another fatal shooting at the base took place in 2009. May 23, 2014 Isla Vista, California A gunman, identified as Elliot Rodger, kills six people and wounds 13 others in Isla Vista, Calif., a small town near Santa Barbara. He stabs three men in his apartment before driving to locations throughout the town where he kills three students from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before the rampage, Rodger, age 22, posts a video called "Elliot Rodger's Retribution" on his YouTube Channel and writes a 137-page manifesto. In both, he expresses his anger over being rejected by women and his plans for revenge. June 5, 2014 Seattle, Washington A man armed with a shotgun opens fire at Seattle Pacific University, killing one student and wounding two others.

The suspect, Aaron Ybarra, 26, is not a student at the college. He was subdued by a student security guard and taken into custody. October 24, 2014 Marysville, Washington Jaylen Ray Fryberg, a popular freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, opens fire in the cafeteria, killing two students and critically wounding three others before turning the gun on himself. January 7, 2015 Paris, France Three masked gunmen storm the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly magazine, and kill 12 people, including the paper's top editors and cartoonists, as well as two police officers. The provocative magazine is known for publishing charged cartoons that satirized Islamic terrorists and the Prophet Muhammad. June 17, 2015 Charleston, South Carolina A white male opened fire during a prayer service at the historically significant Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing nine people, including Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the church's pastor and a state senator. The alleged gunman, Dylann Storm Roof, 21, sat in the church for about an hour before beginning the rampage.

He was caught about 200 miles away on June 18. July 16, 2015 Chattanooga, Tennessee A gunman opened fire at a Navy and Marine recruiting center, killing four Marines. Three other people, including a recruiter and police officer were injured. One of the injured men later died of his wounds. The suspect, identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulzeez, was shot and killed by police. October 1, 2015 Roseburg, Oregon A gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College. Nine people were killed and seven more wounded. The suspected shooter, 26- year-old Chris Harper Mercer, killed himself after exchanging gunfire with the police. December 2, 2015 San Bernardino, California Fourteen people were killed and more than 20 wounded when two people opened fire at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, a service facility for people with disabilities and special needs. The suspects, husband and wife Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were killed in a shootout with police after the rampage. Officials said they believe the attack was terrorism related.

February 20, 2016 Kalamazoo, Michigan An Uber driver, Jason Brian Dalton, went on a killing rampage throughout the town of Kalamazoo, Michigan killing 6 people. He started the 6-hour deadly spree by shooting a woman outside her townhouse, leaving her in critical condition. Then Dalton killed two men in a brightly-lit Kia dealership parking lot, after which he moved into a Cracker Barrel parking lot, killing four women there. A 14-year-old girl was also left in critical condition, but survived. The killer was arrested two hours after the shootings. February 25, 2016 Hesston, Kansas A gunman opened fire at Excel Industries, a ride-on mower manufacturing plant, killing three people and wounding 14. A police officer and the assailant exchanged gunfire, and the suspect was killed. While driving to the plant, he fired several shots out of the car window, wounding three people. The gunman, who worked at Excel Industries, used an assault rifle in the shooting spree. His name was not released.

April 23, 2016 Antigo, Wisconsin An 18-year-old boy named Jakob Wagner opened fire at the Antigo High School prom. He shot 4 of his fellow students, none of which died from the injuries sustained. He was then chased out of the building and exchanged fire with a school police officer. Wagner was shot down in a field after trying to flee the scene. He died in the hospital a few hours later. June 1, 2016 Los Angeles, California On the campus of UCLA a week before finals, a gunman shot and killed an instructor, William S. Klug, before killing himself. Assistant Professor Klug, 39, was a father of two who worked in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department. June 12, 2016 Orlando, Florida A mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub in the early hours of Sunday, June 12, 2016, left 50 people dead, including the gunman, and more than 50 injured. The shooter was identified as Omar Mateen, 29, who entered the nightclub armed with an assault rifle and a pistol. According to authorities, Mr.

Mateen pledged his allegiance to ISIS via a 911 call from inside the nightclub. This massacre is the deadliest mass shooting on U.S. soil. July 7, 2016 Dallas, Texas Five police officers were killed and seven others wounded in a deadly ambush during a protest against recent fatal police shootings of two black men in Baton Rouge, La. and Minnesota. The shooter was military veteran Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, of Mesquite, Texas, who deliberately targeted the law enforcement officers. Sept. 28, 2016 Townville, South Carolina A homeschooled teenager, Jesse Osborne, 14, shot and killed his father, then drove to the local elementary school playground where he shot two male students and a female teacher. The teacher and one of the boys were treated and released from the hospital; the other boy later died. The shooter was charged with murder. Oct. 18, 2016 San Francisco, California Four males waited in the parking lot of San Francisco's June Jordan School for Equity and City Arts and Technology High School as students were released for the day, opening fire and injuring four students including a 15-year-old female who was critically injured.

Ali David Sonboly: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com Get Heavy's Top 5 News Stories Every Day We will never share your email address. Ali David Sonboly: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know Published Updated 9:35 am EST, July 25, 2016 46 Comments By Jessica McBride 218 Share Tweet Share Email Follow Ali Sonboly’s Facebook profile picture. (Facebook) Ali David Sonboly, the 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman with dual nationality who committed the Munich, Germany shooting spree, was a “depressed” and “deranged” teen, who complained of bullying, was influenced by right-wing Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, and read about school shootings, according to UK Telegraph and UK Daily Mail, citing police. #Munich gunman opened fire on children at McDonald's pic.twitter.com/IAQrPNjq1E — Joel Franco (@OfficialJoelF) July 22, 2016 The shooting spree – which started at a Munich mall before spreading to a nearby McDonald’s – left at least 10 people dead (including the shooter) and more injured.

CNN said Munich police initially believed there were three gunmen and that the shooting spree was a terrorist attack. However, the BBC later reported police now believe there was one gunman; Daily Mail says police found a book about school shooters in Sonboly’s backpack and that police say he did not have clear political motivation. Some media were calling him David S. and others Ali David Sonboly. We found a man, who killed him himself. We assume, that he was the only shooter. #gunfire #munich — Polizei München (@PolizeiMuenchen) July 22, 2016 There were conflicting accounts of the gunman’s background and motive in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, with some claiming Sonboly shouted “I am German” and made anti-immigrant comments and another eyewitness telling CNN she heard the shooter shout “Allahu Akbar” before shooting children in the face at the McDonald’s across the street from the mall.

CBS said police were calling the attack “suspected terrorism,” but they said on Saturday that Sonboly had an “obvious link” to a far-right Norwegian mass murderer, Breivik, and that they have not found any ties to ISIS; Breivik, according to BBC, was a right-wing mass murderer motivated in part by anger at Muslim immigration. Daily Mirror says Sonboly had a picture of Breivik as his Whatsapp profile and a friend told German media he was a “fan of mass murders.” #BREAKING Police say 'obvious link' between Munich gunman and Norway's Breivik — AFP news agency (@AFP) July 23, 2016 The Munich shooting was considered an active shooter incident for several hours, as German police launched an extensive manhunt, as reports came in that the shooter had killed himself. The number of people killed and the number of gunmen varied during the immediate aftermath of the shooting but has grown to nine deceased victims with 16 wounded. Here’s what you need to know: 1.

The Shooter Was ‘Depressed’ & ‘Deranged’ & Had a Book About School Shootings, Police say Brave shopper tells gunman: 'You're not a German you're a w*****' #Munich pic.twitter.com/VrTkTDSMWa — Daily Express (@Daily_Express) July 22, 2016 In a Saturday, July 23 press conference, Munich police described Sonboly as depressed and deranged, and said he had received psychiatric treatment in the past, AFP said. In a citizen video captured while he was on a rooftop, Sonboly had mentioned being bullied and previously seeking medical treatment. The Independent says police believe Sonboly planned the attack for a year. According to UK Daily Mail , Sonboly had the book, Why Kids Kill: Inside The Minds of School Shooters in his backpack. The book, published in 2010 , describes its contents as “In this breakthrough analysis, Dr. Peter Langman presents the psychological causes of school shootings and offers unprecedented insight into why certain teens exhibit the potential to kill.” UK Telegraph says he also had newspaper articles on mass shootings. The Mirror said Sonboly had the German version of the book.

The Independent says police believe Sonboly had “visited the town of Winnenden last year to take photographs of the scene of a previous school shooting in 2009.” As was seen during the Nice, France terrorist attack at a Bastille Day celebration, the Munich attack was captured in fragmented citizen videos and photos that were immediately disseminated via social media, including Twitter and YouTube. One of the most disturbing videos appeared to show the gunman shooting at people outside the McDonald’s. In that video, the gunman points a weapon and fires as terrified people flee. Police used a robot to inspect the gunman’s body. Der Spiegel said the gunman was previously unknown to police. UPDATE: #Munich police send robot to investigate suspected shooter's body & backpack pic.twitter.com/9bpvptPBQq Other videos show police tending to victims. (Warning: Graphic) Footage shows paramedics desperately battling to save lives in #Munich pic.twitter.com/bOM0RVrSOE — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 22, 2016 The Belfast Telegraph said a neighbor described Sonboly as having “shy” body language.

Iraq Magazine said Sonboly lived two miles from the shooting scene and used a Glock 17 semi-automatic handgun to carry out the attack. Police said he filed the serial number off the weapon, and he had 300 rounds of ammunition with him, Iraq Magazine said. The Independent says he bought it online through the “dark net.” 2. The Shooter Lived With His Parents, Was a ‘Quiet Type’ Who Claimed He Was Bullied & May Have Shouted ‘I am German’ On an Unverified Citizen Video UPDATED: Munich gunman screamed anti-immigrant slogans before shooting: report pic.twitter.com/l2aBwhRTnk — The Hill (@thehill) July 22, 2016 Bild says the gunman lived in “the district of Maxvorstadt” with his parents. Bild said he went to school near the residence and his neighbors had seen him the day before. Bild quoted a neighbor as saying, “He lived right next to me. I saw him only occasionally and do not really know him.

A friend of mine was his classmate, saying that he was more of a quiet type.” Sonboly’s hairdresser told the UK Telegraph that the family was Shia Muslim but Sonboly wasn’t religious; ISIS opposes Shia Muslims. Other attacks – such as the one in Nice and last fall in Paris, France – were perpetrated by Muslim suspects who may have at least been influenced by ISIS. However, in the Munich attack, early media reports indicated it was possible that the gunman had a different motive: He might have been targeting foreigners. This remained unclear as the manhunt continued, and police are still not applying a definitive motive to the attack, but his anger may have been sparked, at least in part, by bullying at school. Iraq Magazine said that Sonboly had previously threatened to kill people who bullied him in school. One school friend wrote on a chat that Sonboly was “mobbed” by school bullies, the Mirror said. One video circulating on social media appeared to show the gunman in a shouting match with bystanders.

At one point, the gunman appears to say, “Ich bin Deutscher” or “I am German.” In the rooftop video captured by a civilian, Sonboly shouts that he was born in Germany and says that he lived in the Turkish area of a town, was bullied, and received media treatment, according to translations of the video on Reddit and CNN. Watch: @SkyNews Second #Munich shooter shouts "Ich bin Deutscher" – "I am German". Far right group? — Robert Dillon (@celticpraxis) July 22, 2016 The Mirror says that the gunman may have shouted “f***ing foreigners” before opening fire. According to an earlier account in the Mirror, a “Taxi driver says #Munich shooter ‘was not foreign.'” However, on July 23, Munich police chief Hubertus Andrae called Sonboly a “classical shooter without any political motivation,” said Daily Mail, and confirmed that Sonboly committed suicide. Reddit has posted a translation of the video.

The translation quotes the gunman as also saying, “I grew up here in the Hartz 4 (unemployment benefits in Germany) area” and “Yeah what, I was born here!” The bystander then insults the shooter repeatedly, according to the translation. 3. An Eyewitness Says The Gunman Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ Before Shooting Children & Her Son Saw a Gunman Loading His Weapon in The Bathroom Armela Segashi, who died in the Munich attack. (Facebook) An eyewitness told CNN t hat she heard a gunman say “Allahu Akbar.” Sonboly had the Turkish flag as his Facebook cover photo. CNN reported that a woman named Lauretta told CNN that she was in the McDonald’s near the mall when Sonboly emerged from the bathroom and started shooting. She told CNN’s Dugald McConnell: “I come out of the toilet and I hear like an alarm, boom, boom, boom. He’s killing the children (…) The children were sitting to eat. They can’t run.” The gunman yelled “Allahu akbar!” she said. (That phrase was also uttered by Nice killer, Mohamed Bouhlel, before police shot him).

Video captures chilling moment gunman fired at shoppers in #Munich pic.twitter.com/eURHOJQmZ0 — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 22, 2016 Some victims’ identities were starting to be released, and Facebook tributes sprouted up for one, Armela Segashi, a Kosovo-Albanian woman (picture above). Zabergja Dijamant and Sabina Sulaj were also named as victims. All three are from Albania, said UK Telegraph. Ngushëllime familjeve që humben më të dashurit e tyre. Armela Segashi, Sabina Sulaj, Dijamant Zabërgja. — Samir H. Asllani ™ (@samir_samki) July 23, 2016 Another witness, identified as Murat T saw “lifeless bodies” in the restaurant when he went to look for a friend of his son, said The Daily Mail . Daily Mail said the son “heard gunshots while on the phone to his friend, before the call cut out. He said: ‘We no longer reach him. Not even his parents. He is like my brother.'” 4.

The Gunman Was the Son of a Taxi Driver & May Have Used a Fake Girl’s Name to Lure Children to McDonald’s Witness shouts ‘You are a w*****!’ at #Munich gunman. He replies: ‘Shut your trap’ pic.twitter.com/wM2kUJ5TTK — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 22, 2016 UK Telegraph says Sonboly may have drawn people to McDonald’s by posing as a teenage girl called ‘Selina Akim’ on Facebook and saying the restaurant was going to offer free food. See screenshots of those Facebook messages here. Iraq Magazine says Sonboly’s father is a taxi driver and his mother works in a department store. News reports said the shooting began in the mall. The gunman then moved across the street to a nearby McDonald’s. There were also reports of other shooting scenes throughout the city. CNN said that Munich was in “virtual lockdown” at one point after the shooting. The Telegraph says Sonboly was targeting Turkish and Arabic origin teenagers because those were the groups who bullied him at school and that police no longer consider the attack related to terrorism.

According to the Daily Mail, police said they were interviewing at least 100 witnesses and said: “We are at the moment after three attackers…Our priority is to catch the attackers at this stage and then we will inform you again.” However, they now think Sonboly acted alone. 5. Sonboly Was Interested in Mass Shooters & Had First-Person Shooting Games on His Computer MUNICH, GERMANY – JULY 22: Police officers guard with guns as other officers escort people from inside the shopping center as they respond to a shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum (OEZ) at July 22, 2016 in Munich, Germany. According to reports, several people have been killed and an unknown number injured in a shooting at a shopping centre in the north-western Moosach district in Munich. Police are hunting the attacker or attackers who are thought to be still at large. (Photo by Joerg Koch/Getty Images) According to UK Daily Mail , police found files relating to mass shooters at the home where Sonboly lived with his parents, and the teenager had active-shooter games on his computer. The UK Telegraph says evidence shows he was “inspired” by Breivik.

According to the BBC, Breivik “harboured radical right-wing views and said his attack was aimed at stopping Muslim immigration to Europe.” He murdered 77 people in Norway on July 22, 2011 in a bomb attack in Oslo and a mass shooting at an island youth camp for “young centre-left political activists on the island of Utoeya.” Breivik is being held in solitary confinement. The Munich shooting occurred on the anniversary of the Breivik attack. The number of people killed kept growing in the hours after the Munich shootings. First media reports said one person had died, then several, then three, and then six. There were also people injured in the attack. The death toll now stands at nine victims with many others injured. Three Turkish citizens were listed among the dead. The shootings began at a mall that is adjacent to the site of the 1972 Olympics, said CNN , quoting police as saying: “The manhunt is underway at high speed.” Jessica McBrideis a Heavy contributor. She was a crime, government, and breaking news reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and reporter for the Waukesha Freeman newspaper.

Her award-winning work has appeared in numerous magazine, newspaper, and online publications. She has also appeared as a crime reporter on Investigation Discovery Channel, History Channel, and Oxygen Channel. She can be reached by email at jessica.mcbride@heavy.com. July 25, 2016 9:35 am

Question: The town of Winnenden, where a deranged teenager massacred 15 school children, is in which country?
Answer: Germany