German School Shooter Had Violent Computer Games, Unsuspecting Parents, Academic Pressure
People gather at the Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, Germany Saturday.
ERFURT, Germany — The teen-age gun enthusiast who killed 16 people and himself at his former school enjoyed violent computer games and kept his parents in the dark about his humiliating expulsion from school, police said Sunday.
Adding new details to the troubling profile of Robert Steinhaeuser, the 19-year-old behind one of the deadliest school shootings ever, investigators said that hours before his deadly rampage, he told his parents he was going to take a math exam. As he left the house, his mother wished him good luck.
"The parents thought he was going to school every day and was successfully moving toward his high school diploma," Police Chief Rainer Grube said.
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Kevin Swanson | 10/4/2012
