Winnenden school shooting

Name: Winnenden school shooting
Start: 2009

2009 CE.

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The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at the Albertville-Realschule, a real school in Winnenden, a town in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16 deaths, including the suicide of the perpetrator, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer, who had graduated from the school a year earlier. Another nine people were injured during the incident.

Text from the Wikipedia article 2009 Winnenden shootings, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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