Germany school shooting - 15 dead in Winnenden

Smiling, friendly and full of life - these photos reveal the full horror behind the tragic victims of teen gunman Tim Kretschmer's school murder rampage.

The 17-year-old Kretschmer started a killing spree at his former school in Winnenden near Stuttgart, Germany yesterday, murdering students and teachers. The gunman appears to have specifically targeted girls and women as he went on the ran amok at Albertville school, cruelly robbing them of their lives.

Among his 15 victims were eight schoolgirls aged 14 to 17 as well as three female teachers, who were all shot in cold blood. The teen gunman killed a further three people as he fled the scene and went on a bloody rampage before shooting himself in the head in the parking lot of a car dealership in Wendlinger during an exchange of fire with police.

More pictures have also come to light of the gunman himself. Just how he went from an angelic-faced young boy and a keen table tennis player to a teen killer has left many baffled. But new reports have surfaced revealing Tim Kretschmer was suffering from depression and had been seeing a psychiatrist.

Herbert Rech (CDU), Interior Minister of the state of Baden-Württemberg, was visibly moved when he spoke to the press yesterday: “The gunman killed eight schoolgirls and one boy and shot dead three female teachers in the school building. He also injured a further seven schoolgirls. The fact that the vast majority of female victims is notable.”

Did Kretschmer hate girls because he was unpopular with them?

Rech added: “The killer shot most of his victims in the head, which shows that they weren’t random targets.”

Shoolgirls Selina Dogan, Chantal Schill and Jana Schober († 14) were all killed in their classroom, a place they felt safe.

The young boy who died was Ibrahim Yeniay, who was of Albanian origin.

A neighbour told BILD: “Sometimes I met Tim in the park. He always complained about one of his teachers.

"He said that she bullied him and threatened him that if he continued as he was he would end up on the rubbish heap. He completely hated her, as he did all women in general.”

The injured were brought into hospitals where doctors were still working hard to save them on Wednesday evening. At least two schoolgirls are in intensive care in the clinic in Backnang.

Dieter Schneider from the Baden-Würtemberg police said: “The killing spree was planned. The killer wanted to create a bloodbath.”

Victims of the bloodbath - Eyewitness accounts 1.34pm: 3 schoolboys: 1st boy: "We were sitting in lessons and then suddenly there was a loud bang and we thought that the school was all going to break down. Then our teacher went out to see what was going on. Then there was another loud bang and he locked the door.“ 2nd boy: "Some people went out of the window onto the ladder and then jumped down." 3rd boy: "And then everyone cried: Attention, gunman running amok! And some people above shouted "call an ambulance" 2nd boy: "It was all so horrible!“ (RTL Punkt12) 1 / 16 vorheriges Element nächstes Element

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Three hero teachers were killed by Tim Kretschmer as they tried to stop him getting to the kids.

The true horror of what happened in the Albertville School has started to emerge as survivors tell their harrowing stories.

Teen gunman Tim Kretschmer gave a chilling warning in an internet chatroom hours before he went on a killing spree.

Read more about the day's tragic events and see the face of the school shooting killer.

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