What the records say
- When
- 3 Jun 1983
- Kind
- Shooting
- Killed
- 6
- Coordinates
- 50.15° N, 8.39° E
- Description
- June 1983 school massacre attempt in Eppstein, Hesse, West Germany
- Injured
- 14
Eppstein school shooting
1983 school shooting in West Germany
On 3 June 1983, a school shooting occurred at the Freiherr-vom-Stein Gesamtschule in Eppstein-Vockenhausen, Hesse, Germany. The gunman, 34-year-old 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.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Fusillade de l’école d'Eppstein”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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