The 17-year-old gunman, identified in the German media as Tim K., had been receiving psychiatric treatment for depression and warned of his plans in an Internet chatroom the night before the attack, Heribert Rech, the interior minister of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said Thursday.
"I'm serious … I have weapons here and tomorrow morning I am going to go to my old school and really fry them. Keep the name Winnenden in mind," the teenager wrote.
The teenager went on a rampage in his former secondary school in the small town of Winnenden in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in southwestern Germany on Wednesday morning, shooting nine students between the ages of 15 and 16, as well as three teachers. Three bystanders were also killed as the gunman attempted to flee police.
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