Gunman Kill 16 at German school, and the Geneva/Janus connection.

3/11

WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) -- A gunman dressed in military gear killed 15 people Wednesday in a shooting spree in Germany before he was shot dead by police, police spokeswoman Renate Roesch told CNN.

Tim Kretschmer, 17, began his rampage at a school where he used to be a student in Winnenden, a small town near Stuttgart.

"The suspect broke into the school. He went into the classroom and shot wildly around himself and left the building and fled on foot," Hans Ulrich Stuiber, another police spokesman, said.

Three teachers and nine students were killed at the Albertville-Realschule Winnenden, Roesch said. The shooting, which began around 9:30 a.m., lasted about two minutes, police said.

On his way out of the school, the gunman killed a person who was working in a hospital nearby, then hijacked a car, taking an occupant hostage.

He drove to the nearby town of Wendlingen, kicking the hostage out of the vehicle on the way, said Leo Parzinger of the Wendlingen police.

He then killed two more people before being killed himself in a shootout with police, authorities said.

At least seven people were injured in the shootings -- five people in Winnenden and two police officers in Wendlingen -- Roesch added. She was unable to say how serious the injuries were. Watch more about the shootings »

The families of the dead have been informed and are receiving counseling, she said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to make a statement about the incident later in the day, her office said.

About 1,000 students attend the school where the killings began.

Authorities sealed off the town of Winnenden and launched an intense manhunt for the gunman after the school shootings. Police said the man was about 1.80m (5'11") and heavily armed.

"It is a small town, an idyllic town," said Frank Nipkau, the editor in chief of Winnenden Zeitung newspaper. "The town people are devastated and they can't understand why this is happening in this town."

Security at German schools has been an issue in the past. Do you think the gun control issue is taken seriously enough? (CNN SPECIAL LINK, GUN CONTROL TIME)

n November 2006, an 18-year-old former student strapped explosives to his body and went on a rampage at a middle school in western Germany, shooting and wounding six people -- most of them students -- before killing himself.

In July 2003, a 16-year-old student shot a teacher before taking his own life at a school in the southern German town of Coburg.

A year earlier, 18 people were killed when an expelled student went on a shooting spree at his school in eastern Germany.

Another European country, Finland, is planning to toughen firearm laws after two school shootings there left 20 people dead. Those incidents occurred in November 2007 and September 2008.

Finnish news reports on Wednesday said an Interior Ministry working group has issued a proposal calling for age 20 as the minimum age for handgun ownership and 18 as the minimum for rifles. The proposal will be circulated among legislators.

"Under the proposal, a firearm license applicant would be required to provide a certificate from a shooting club instructor to certify that the applicant has practiced shooting at a gun club for two years prior to applying for a permit.

"The ministry also wants applicants' health and behavior to come under closer scrutiny and has suggested adopting aptitude tests used by the Defense Forces," according to yla.fi.

Authorities search for motive in Alabama slayings of 11

It's always the same M.O. with these cases. Notice how above is in (GENEVA) Alabama. GENEVA JUST HAPPENS TO BE WHERE THE CERN STARGATE IS LOCATED. Geneva = Genava or Geneva, also Janua and Genua.
Janua = JANUS. The phrase "Janua Sophia" is a synthesis of the Latin janua meaning 'doorway or passage way' and the Greek sophia meaning 'wisdom'. So, literally, "Janua Sophia" means 'doorway wisdom'. This concept can be understood in two ways: the doorway to wisdom or the wisdom of the doorway. Both are relevant, but it is the wisdom of the doorway which is the focus of Janua Sophia. A doorway is the point of transition between two places: a balanced center which connects two realms.

The GENEVA shooting was 3/10/ and 10 deaths were originally reported, now 11 on the 11th. I am sure the death count for this school shooting will change (it already did). A 17 year old, at 9:30, the numbers never lie.

Update: 5 heads discovered under a FIG TREE in mexico.