Winnenden School Shooting

Date: March 11, 2009 • Location: Winnenden, Germany

A teenage gunman engaged in a shooting spree at a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany, killing 16, including himself.

On 11 March 2009, a series of shootings took place at the Albertville-Realschule in Winnenden and a car dealership in Wendlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Fifteen people were killed and nine were injured before the perpetrator, 17-year-old former student Tim Kretschmer, killed himself during a shootout with police.