Tim warned of attack online

The teenage German gunman who went on a rampage at his former school and killed 15 people before taking his own life warned of his plans in an Internet chat room only hours earlier and said he was “sick of this life,” officials said Thursday.

The 17-year-old suspect, whose name appears as Tim Kretschmer in police documents, told others in the chat room he planned to attack his school in Winnenden, said Baden Wuerttemburg state Interior Minister Heribert Rech.

Rech said the suspect wrote, “You will hear from me tomorrow, remember the name of a place called Winnenden.”

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