A couple of months ago (back to January) I essayed a piece over a mass shooting in the Baden-Wurttemberg area. The police came yesterday to update the shooting, and N-TV carried a good piece to explain the whole story.
The basic story revolved around this 26-year-old guy, who shot six family members.
So down in the Rot am See....there was this family occasion unfolding....a funeral for some relative. Gathered were the father, mother, half-brother, half-sister, and a aunt and uncle.
What the police say is that the son in this case....had planned on a killing for a fairly long period (more than week or month). 30 rounds were fired, with a legally procured pistol. He apparently had the license, and doctors had given him a 'clean' bill of mental health.
Chief problem with the guy? Police say an exam by a doctor indicates paranoid schizophrenia. It's a curious thing because you can't get a gun license, without a doctor signing off, and apparently this schizophrenia problem had never been noted in the records.
What happens now? The guy was captured alive, and the court system will likely go to place him in a mental facility for the rest of his life. Beyond that.....not much to say for the six dead relatives.
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