15 killed in school shooting in German

floridafun wrote:i saw that..you beat me to posting it and good to "see" you!

meta4 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/11/alabama.deputy/index.html

Geneva County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers quickly hung up the phone after he got his friend's message on Tuesday and started for the town of Samson, having no idea what had happened to his wife or his three children.

Then, another urgent message:

"We got notified on the radio that a trooper was chasing a suspect that had fired shots," Myers told reporters on Wednesday.

Instead of heading home, the deputy drove to Reliable Metal Products plant in the nearby town of Geneva, where the gunman had shot and killed himself after a bloody rampage in southern Alabama in which he killed 10 people -- including relatives and apparent strangers.

Myers had no idea that the man, whose body he saw at the plant, had shot and killed his wife and 1½-year-old daughter, Corinne Gracy, and shot and wounded his 3-month-old baby girl, Ella Kay.

A family friend found the couple's 4-year-old son hiding in the Myers' home after the shooting.

"He was present when it happened," Myers said. "He knows something's wrong. He asked where mama was, and I had to tell him she was with Jesus. This is going to take a long time to work through it."

I read this and tried hard not to cry. I can't even imagine the pain he's feeling.

Canuck wrote:

meta4 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/11/alabama.deputy/index.html

Geneva County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers quickly hung up the phone after he got his friend's message on Tuesday and started for the town of Samson, having no idea what had happened to his wife or his three children.

Then, another urgent message:

"We got notified on the radio that a trooper was chasing a suspect that had fired shots," Myers told reporters on Wednesday.

Instead of heading home, the deputy drove to Reliable Metal Products plant in the nearby town of Geneva, where the gunman had shot and killed himself after a bloody rampage in southern Alabama in which he killed 10 people -- including relatives and apparent strangers.

Myers had no idea that the man, whose body he saw at the plant, had shot and killed his wife and 1½-year-old daughter, Corinne Gracy, and shot and wounded his 3-month-old baby girl, Ella Kay.

A family friend found the couple's 4-year-old son hiding in the Myers' home after the shooting.

"He was present when it happened," Myers said. "He knows something's wrong. He asked where mama was, and I had to tell him she was with Jesus. This is going to take a long time to work through it."

I read this and tried hard not to cry. I can't even imagine the pain he's feeling.

Yes, I saw that too. Very sad story on both counts.

You're getting your shootings mixed up meta, there is one in USA happenings about this story in Alabama.

Canuck wrote:Yep, very sad situation indeed.

Who knows what goes on in these people's minds to do stuff like this.

Friend Fabienne Boehm, 12, said she recently met the shooter and that he had claimed fellow students at the high school had mocked him and teachers there ignored him.
Three weeks ago, she said he showed her a note. "He wrote to his parents that he's suffering and he can't go on," she told the AP outside a memorial service at a town church late Wednesday.

Markwes wrote:

Canuck wrote:Yep, very sad situation indeed.

Who knows what goes on in these people's minds to do stuff like this.

Friend Fabienne Boehm, 12, said she recently met the shooter and that he had claimed fellow students at the high school had mocked him and teachers there ignored him.
Three weeks ago, she said he showed her a note. "He wrote to his parents that he's suffering and he can't go on," she told the AP outside a memorial service at a town church late Wednesday.

This seems to be a common element in these kinds of shootings.

Markwes wrote:True. And the fact that he killed 2 people at a car dealership shows that it all wasn't just about "revenge".

And I don't really have an answer as to why this seems to get more media attention than the Alabama shootings. Maybe as FF suggested, it's the shock value of this happening in Germany.