Teen opens fire in class

COBURG, Germany -- A 16-year-old student armed with a pistol and a revolver opened fire in his classroom Wednesday, wounding a school psychologist and fatally shooting himself.\nTwo students were slightly injured in the rush to flee the public school in this Bavarian town at about 9 a.m., state police said. One pupil jumped from a first-floor window but landed unhurt.\nThe teenager walked into the classroom and fired a first shot toward the chalkboard, which ricocheted into the ceiling, sending the teacher and her pupils fleeing, police said, revising earlier accounts that the classroom teacher was shot.\nA second teacher who serves as school psychologist tried to enter the room to calm the student. He shot her in the thigh, said Bernhard Schmitt, a police officer at the scene. The 16-year-old then turned the revolver on himself, police said.\n"We know nothing yet about the motives," police spokeswoman Ingrid Beyer said. "The teacher is getting medical attention."\nBavarian authorities said the boy was repeating eighth grade but was in no danger of being held back again. He was considered quiet and not a problem student, Schmitt said.\nIt was unclear where the student had obtained the weapons, although his grandfather belongs to a local shooting club.\nAccording to the school's Web site, there were 34 pupils enrolled in the class and a total of 757 at the school, which prepares students for vocational training or apprenticeships.\nCoburg is located about 145 miles north of Munich.\nIn April 2002, 17 people in the eastern city of Erfurt died in Germany's deadliest school shooting. Robert Steinhaeuser, a 19-year-old who had been expelled, shot and killed 13 teachers, a police officer and two students before fatally shooting himself.\nLast October, a teen entered a school near the southwestern city of Stuttgart and took four students hostage at gunpoint, but the kidnapping ended after several hours without incident. The 17-year-old was recently sentenced to three and half years in jail.