teen gunman told someone in an Internet chat room hours before the attacks
WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) — The teen gunman who killed 15 people in a shooting rampage in two small German towns told someone in an Internet chat room hours before the attacks that “he’d had enough.” German shooter Tim Kretschmer, 17, began the killing spree at his old school.
German shooter Tim Kretschmer, 17, began the killing spree at his old school. “I’m fed up with this bloody life,” a German official quoted Tim Kretschmer as writing early Wednesday. Heribert Rech, interior minister of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg, told journalists that media reports indicate a teenager from Bavaria reported the Internet conversation to his father. According to Rech, Kretschmer continued: “Everyone laughs at me. No one recognizes my potential. I mean this seriously. I have got a weapon here and tomorrow I am going to go to my former school and give them hell. “Maybe I would escape, keep your ear to the ground. You’ll hear from me tomorrow morning. Just notice the name of the place, Winnenden. Don’t say anything to the police.” The youth who was reading the comments didn’t take the message seriously, Rech said, and responded “TLL,” which translates to “laughing out loud,” or “I’m splitting my sides with laughter.” “I need to see some pictures before I believe it,” the teenager added.
The portal is owned by someone in the United States, and measures have been taken to preserve the conversation, Rech said. Rech said some pornographic images were found on Kretschmer’s computer, and he played violent computer games, but the findings were typical of male teens.
Kretschmer started treatment for depression at a clinic in April last year, then attended outpatient sessions.
It was not known when he stopped attending the sessions but it is known he had started studying business. Rech said the killer was described as silent, but not unfriendly.
Hours after the reported Internet exchange, Kretschmer, 17, did go to his former school — Albertville-Realschule school in Winnenden, near Stuttgart — and killed nine students and three teachers.
He then killed three other people — one at a nearby psychiatric clinic, and two at a car dealership — before he was spotted by police about three hours and a half hours later.
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