German School Massacre (WTF R)
sticky_dojah
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It happened this morning. I think there are even more people dead. Seriously WTF? Not again...SCHOOL MASSACREGerman Teenager Shot Dead by Police After Killing 15 PeopleA 17-year-old youth in Germany killed 15 people on Wednesday in a shooting rampage that began at his school, where he shot dead nine pupils and three teachers. He was shot dead by police outside a supermarket after killing two passers by.A 17-year-old youth killed 15 people in a shooting rampage that began at his former school on Wednesday and ended in a supermarket forecourt where he was shot dead by police after killing two passers by, police said.The teenager walked into the Albertville secondary school in the southwestern town of Winnenden at 9.30 a.m and opened fire indiscriminately in two classrooms, killing nine pupils and three teachers as well as wounding several others.He then fled, shooting dead a further person on his way, as police mounted a massive manhunt with helicopters and sniffer dogs.Police located him in the town of Wendlingen 40 kilometers away. Two police officers were seriously wounded in that final shootout, police said."The attacker just opened fire indiscriminately," a police spokesman told SPIEGEL ONLINE. The youth has not yet been named.Media reports said his parents had 18 licensed firearms in their home in a neighboring town. His father is reported to be a well-off businessman. Special units of the police stormed the house and are questioning his mother, reports said.Winnenden, has around 27,600 inhabitants and is located 20 kilometers northeast of Stuttgart. Schools of its type teach pupils between the ages of 10 and 16.More than 1,000 pupils were led to safety. German news channel N-TV reported that there was chaos around the school complex as parents were gathering there. "You can see the shock and horror in people's eyes," one eyewitness said.It is the worst school shooting in Germany since the massacre of Erfurt in April 2002 when former pupil Robert Steinh??user shot dead 13 teachers, two pupils, a police officer and himself. More than a dozen ambulances are at the school.In 2006, an 18-year-old former pupil wounded 37 people in Emsdetten in northwestern Germany before killing himself.http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,612612,00.html
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Someone will say "Never thought this could happen in my town/area".
Another will say "He seemed so normal".
Yet another will say "I always thought he was weird".
People who perpetrate such crimes are at the furthest ends of the human behavioral Bell curve distribution.
You have to trust to luck that you and yours never fall victim to the randomness.
So true.