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

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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

More MK, Gunman kills crowd in miami.

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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Miami police issued a plea for information Saturday after at least one person with an assault rifle opened fire on a crowd of people on a streetcorner Friday night, killing two teens and wounding seven other people. "We need the community to come together, someone come forward and give us a tip," Miami Police Officer Kenia Alfonso told CNN. "There are a lot of people in that area. Someone must have seen something, someone must know who could've done this horrific crime." Alfonso said two teens, ages 16 and 18, died in the attack, which broke up a game of craps in front of a grocery store about 9:50 p.m. Friday in the city's Liberty City neighborhood. Five of the shooting victims were still in the hospital Saturday night, according to CNN affiliate WSVN. Others told WSVN that a masked man with an AK-47 burst onto the scene and ordered everyone to the ground. "Boy came round the corner; he was like, 'Get down,' and he just

More shooting Terror in Arvada Colorado

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Two missionaries-in-training were killed early today and two more were wounded when a gunman burst into a residence hall at the Youth With a Mission center in the Denver suburb of Arvada, the police said. The center was summoning the 80 or so people who live at the Arvada center to the mountain campus in Golden, near the Golden Gate Canyon State Park . Then there was another shooting later in the day!!!! All the signs are pointing towards California, we will see what develops in the next few days. Police in Arvada said they believed the shootings — which occurred 12 hours and about 65 miles apart — were probably linked, though they had nothing conclusive to back up the theory. "Given the circumstances, I think it is a good possibility that the two are linked," Arvada Deputy Police Chief Gary Creagor told The Associated Press early Monday. "But we have to prove that they are." Early Monday, authorities searched a home in Englewood , about 15 miles south of Denve