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Young gunman was fascinated by US school shooting:
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Young gunman was fascinated by US school shooting: press
The teenage gunman whose rampage at a German high school left 17 dead last month had a large collection of documents on a similar shooting at a school in the US state of Colorado, according to a report to be published Monday in the German weekly Focus.
The computer hard drive of Robert Steinhaeuser, the Erfurt gunman, contained numerous documents on the April 20, 1999 massacre of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton by two students, who then committed suicide, the magazine reported.
A resident of a town in the southern German region of Bavaria has also said that he chatted online in the early morning hours of April 20 with an Erfurt youth who seemed "very nice" and who said he was preparing to kill a teacher who had expelled him from school, according to Focus.
The magazine added that police are currently trying to confirm that the Internet user was same person as the Erfurt gunman, who committed suicide after the rampage at Gutenberg high school.
Meanwhile Steinhaeuser's parents, interviewed for the first time since the killing, have told Der Spiegel magazine that their son was obsessed with violence.
"It was always firearms, violence," his father told the German weekly in an article to appear Monday.
The parents were not aware that their son had been expelled from high school in February, saying "he got up every morning and made us believe he was heading to high school."
The parents told the magazine they had tried for years to convince Steinhaeuser to spend less time in front of the computer and television.
"He was always stuck to the computer. It was like a drug," his mother told Der Spiegel.
In a police search of the apartment Steinhaeuser shared with his mother in the east German town, police seized violent computer games and video cassettes.
The 19-year-old ex-student, who was expelled last February, was a member of two gun clubs.
Steinhaeuser was also an apparent fan of the heavy metal group Slipknot, who have written songs defending the killing of teachers by students.
The Erfurt attack, which left 13 teachers -- a quarter of the teaching staff -- dead, marked the most violent outburst in the country's postwar history.
The autopsy of the killer revealed no trace of alcohol, drugs, or medication, according to a medical expert cited by Focus.
On Friday, German leaders including Schroeder joined some 100,000 mourners in Erfurt in a memorial ceremony for the victims of the bloodbath.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020504/1/2oytb.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
The teenage gunman whose rampage at a German high school left 17 dead last month had a large collection of documents on a similar shooting at a school in the US state of Colorado, according to a report to be published Monday in the German weekly Focus.
The computer hard drive of Robert Steinhaeuser, the Erfurt gunman, contained numerous documents on the April 20, 1999 massacre of 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton by two students, who then committed suicide, the magazine reported.
A resident of a town in the southern German region of Bavaria has also said that he chatted online in the early morning hours of April 20 with an Erfurt youth who seemed "very nice" and who said he was preparing to kill a teacher who had expelled him from school, according to Focus.
The magazine added that police are currently trying to confirm that the Internet user was same person as the Erfurt gunman, who committed suicide after the rampage at Gutenberg high school.
Meanwhile Steinhaeuser's parents, interviewed for the first time since the killing, have told Der Spiegel magazine that their son was obsessed with violence.
"It was always firearms, violence," his father told the German weekly in an article to appear Monday.
The parents were not aware that their son had been expelled from high school in February, saying "he got up every morning and made us believe he was heading to high school."
The parents told the magazine they had tried for years to convince Steinhaeuser to spend less time in front of the computer and television.
"He was always stuck to the computer. It was like a drug," his mother told Der Spiegel.
In a police search of the apartment Steinhaeuser shared with his mother in the east German town, police seized violent computer games and video cassettes.
The 19-year-old ex-student, who was expelled last February, was a member of two gun clubs.
Steinhaeuser was also an apparent fan of the heavy metal group Slipknot, who have written songs defending the killing of teachers by students.
The Erfurt attack, which left 13 teachers -- a quarter of the teaching staff -- dead, marked the most violent outburst in the country's postwar history.
The autopsy of the killer revealed no trace of alcohol, drugs, or medication, according to a medical expert cited by Focus.
On Friday, German leaders including Schroeder joined some 100,000 mourners in Erfurt in a memorial ceremony for the victims of the bloodbath.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/020504/1/2oytb.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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