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The Eppstein school shooting was a school shooting that occurred on June 3, 1983, at the Freiherr-vom-Stein Gesamtschule in Eppstein-Vockenhausen, West Germany. The gunman, 34-year-old Czech refugee Karel Charva, fatally shot three students, a teacher and a police officer and injured another 14 people using two semi-automatic pistols, before committing suicide.〔(Classroom Gun Rampage Leaves 6 Germans Dead ), ''The New York Times'' (June 4, 1983)〕 The shooting remains the fourth-deadliest of its kind in post-war Germany, after the Erfurt massacre in 2002, the Winnenden school shooting in 2009, and the Cologne school massacre in 1964. ==Shooting== At about 7:20 a.m. Charva rented a VW panel van at a car rental agency in Frankfurt am Main and is supposed to have driven through the area in search for a school that gave lessons that day, as many were closed due to a holiday. Thus, it is assumed, it was pure chance that he ended up at the Freiherr-vom-Stein Gesamtschule in Eppstein, about 30 kilometers from Frankfurt.〔(Amokschütze Karel Charva steckte voller Haß ), ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' (June 7, 1983)〕 Charva parked his car near the school, and, leaving 160 rounds of ammunition, a bag and handcuffs behind, entered the building with two semi-automatic pistols, a 9mm Smith & Wesson Model 59 and a 7.65mm-caliber Astra, as well as seven additional magazines. At about 10:45 a.m. he came to room 213, where Franz-Adolf Gehlhaar taught English to a sixth grade class. Charva fired a shot at Gehlhaar, missing him, and immediately retreated out of the classroom, just to reenter. When Gehlhaar confronted the gunman, telling him not to shoot the children, but taking him instead,〔("Er blickte verschlagen" ), ''Der Spiegel'' (March 18, 1996)〕 he fired seven shots at the teacher, hitting him in the stomach, face and left arm. As soon as Gehlhaar lay on the floor gravely wounded, Charva began shooting the children, killing three of them and wounding another 13, four of them critically. Alarmed by the gunshots teacher Hans-Peter Schmitt rushed into the classroom, trying to help, but was also shot and killed, as was Gisbert Beck, an unarmed police officer who was at the school instructing students in traffic safety. When police arrived at the scene they tried to calm Charva down, but the gunman simply yelled at them and continued shooting. At about 11:15 a.m. Charva retreated into a classroom opposite the English class where the attack began and committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth. The autopsy of his body later showed that he had acted under the influence of alcohol.〔(Das Blutbad in der Schulklasse ), ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' (June 4, 1983)〕〔(Von Schüssen verletzt, riefen Kinder nach ihrer Mutter ), ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' (June 4, 1983)〕〔(Tödlicher Aufschub ), ''Focus'' (11/1994)〕〔(Schoolhouse killer knew teacher he shot ), ''Ludington Daily News'' (June 4, 1983)〕〔(Karel Charva war ein Einzelgänger ), ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' (June 6, 1983)〕〔(Gedenken an Amoklauf mit sechs Toten ), ''Hessischer Rundfunk'' (June 3, 2008)〕〔(Eppstein nahm Abschied ), ''Hamburger Abendblatt'' (June 9, 1983)〕 In all Charva had fired about forty shots, killed 5 people and injured another 14. Additionally, 30 children suffered from shock.〔(Gunman kills 5 in school ), ''The Spokesman-Review'' (June 4, 1983)〕 Initially, there was some confusion, if Charva might have known the wounded teacher, as shortly before the shooting started someone had asked for Gehlhaar, though it was later found that the person was not the gunman.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eppstein school shooting」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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