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Special police forces are deployed at a school.
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School should be a place of opportunity, of development, of development.
In St. Leon-Rot, a high school became a crime scene.
An 18-year-old dies.
The police assume it was a relationship act.
St. Leon-Rot - Sankt Leon-Rot is a small town, probably one of those where life is quite good, but which hardly anyone knows.
Around 14,000 residents, a golf club, a lake, there are three football clubs and a large street festival.
On Thursday, the name of the community near Heidelberg tragically made headlines across the country.
Blue lights flash everywhere in the town.
The fire department is there, rescue workers, the police.
Officials cordon off the streets, emergency managers call nervously around the area.
Uncertain citizens gather in front of the town hall.
Sirens wailing.
Masked, heavily armed emergency services enter the Löwenrot High School through the glass front.
An act of violence in the modern school building shocks the small community.
An emergency call was received by the police at 10:19 a.m.
First we talk about a woman who was seriously injured in the local high school.
It soon becomes clear: it is an 18-year-old student.
And it is revealed that she did not survive the attack.
Attempts at resuscitation at the crime scene fail.
It remains unclear who is responsible for her death.
But early on, the emergency services said that it was probably a relationship act.
The suspect is on the run.
A police helicopter flies over the place, searching for him.
Officials do not assume there is any danger to the population, but a spokesman admits: "I can't look into the person's head, many things are possible."
At 1:49 p.m. the press release gave the all-clear for the population: the suspected perpetrator was caught, two and a half hours after the violent act.
It is an 18-year-old student.
What exactly happened, how the young man killed the student and, above all, for what specific reasons remains unclear.
The police are not giving any details.
The high school in question was founded in 1998 as a private high school in Leimen with a parents' initiative.
According to the school, 685 students are currently being taught there by 85 teachers.
“Visitors should always register at the office,” says a large sign in front of the building.
The school's homepage displays an error message on Thursday.
Around 650 students will be evacuated in the morning and taken to a collection point, according to the police, a sports hall.
Parents pick them up one by one.
After the arrest, a little more calm returned to St. Leon-Rot.
Police forensic investigators are on the upper floor of the school.
The act is reminiscent of another violent act in Offenburg last November.
At that time, a 15-year-old student shot a peer in a special needs school.
According to police, the German's attack took place in the suspect's ninth grade class.
The 15-year-old student came into his classroom and shot his classmate in the back of the head with a handgun.
dpa