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"You'll hear from me"
Winnenden schoolchild killer announced his crime on the Internet
Seventeen-year-old Tim Kretschmer, who carried out a bloody massacre in Germany in which 15 people died, warned of his intention the day before in an Internet chat. "I've had enough, I'm fed up with this wonderful life. The same thing every day. No one takes me seriously, no one sees my hidden potential. Tomorrow you will hear from me. Remember the name of the city: Winnenden," - the killer wrote in his post. The Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, Heribert Rech, spoke about this yesterday at a press conference about the progress of the investigation into this case. The chat message appeared on Wednesday night. As promised, Kretschmer began to reveal his “hidden potential” already at half past nine in the morning at his former school in the town of Winnenden. He cold-bloodedly, mostly with shots to the head, shot and killed nine schoolchildren, three servers, one person in the clinic and two bystanders. After this, the teenager shot himself.Interior Minister Heribert Rech also said that the young man was prone to depression, was under the supervision of doctors and was repeatedly admitted to a psychiatric clinic. Kretschmer's former classmates remember him as an "inconspicuous" person. According to them, he had no friends, it seemed to him that teachers did not pay attention to him, and his peers laughed at him. The teenager was fond of violent computer games and horror films. There is another version according to which, shortly before committing the crime, he broke up with his girlfriend. Perhaps this explains the fact that at school he only shot at girls and teachers. However, the true motives that pushed the young man to commit such a cruel crime must be established by the investigation. Kretschmer's father, a member of the sports shooting club whose weapon was used by the killer, will soon be charged with criminal negligence.