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09-17-2010, 02:17 AM
Crime | 16.09.2010
Father of teen shooter goes on trial for negligence
Eighteen months after a high school massacre, the 51-year-old father of the perpetrator has gone on trial in Stuttgart accused of breaching Germany's gun law safeguards. Prosecutors allege that businessman Joerg K. left his handgun unsecured in a bedside cupboard, instead of keeping it locked away inside his weapons cabinet.
His son Tim K., then aged 17, took the large-caliber Beretta pistol from his parents' bedroom, together with 258 bullets, and then shot dead nine pupils and three teachers at his former school, Albertville College, at Winnenden in southwestern Germany on 11 March, 2009. He fled in a hijacked vehicle and shot dead three passers-by, and finally himself, when located by police at a car lot several hours later.
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6010850,00.html
Steve
Father of teen shooter goes on trial for negligence
Eighteen months after a high school massacre, the 51-year-old father of the perpetrator has gone on trial in Stuttgart accused of breaching Germany's gun law safeguards. Prosecutors allege that businessman Joerg K. left his handgun unsecured in a bedside cupboard, instead of keeping it locked away inside his weapons cabinet.
His son Tim K., then aged 17, took the large-caliber Beretta pistol from his parents' bedroom, together with 258 bullets, and then shot dead nine pupils and three teachers at his former school, Albertville College, at Winnenden in southwestern Germany on 11 March, 2009. He fled in a hijacked vehicle and shot dead three passers-by, and finally himself, when located by police at a car lot several hours later.
Click the link below to read the rest of the story.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6010850,00.html
Steve