2009 Winnenden shootings
| Winnenden school shooting | |
|---|---|
Albertville-Realschule in Winnenden,after the shooting | |
| Location | 48°52′07″N 9°23′55″E / 48.86861°N 9.39861°E Winnenden and Wendlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Date | 11 March 2009 09:30 – 13:08 (CET) |
| Target | Students and teachers |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, mass murder, spree shooting, murder–suicide |
| Weapons | Beretta 92FS |
| Deaths | 16 (including the perpetrator and 2 in Wendlingen) |
| Injured | 9 |
| Perpetrator | Tim Kretschmer |
| Motive | inconclusive |
The Winnenden school shooting occurred on the morning of 11 March 2009 at the Albertville-Realschule, a real school in Winnenden, a town in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, followed by a shootout at a car dealership in nearby Wendlingen. The shooting spree resulted in 16 deaths, including the suicide of the perpetrator, 17-year-old Tim Kretschmer, who had graduated from the school a year earlier. Another nine people were injured during the incident.