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| Romanshorn shooting | |
|---|---|
| Location | Romanshorn, Switzerland |
| Date | August 30–31, 1912 |
Attack type | Mass murder |
| Weapons | Schmidt 1882 Revolver Schmidt–Rubin 1911 Rifle |
| Deaths | 7 |
| Injured | 7 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Hermann Schwarz |
The Romanshorn shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred in the town of Romanshorn, Switzerland, on August 30, 1912. On that evening, Hermann Schwarz, a 25-year-old local resident recently discharged from the army, opened fire at people in the street from the second-story window of his apartment. In the initial shooting and the following siege Schwarz shot a total of twelve men, six of them fatally, before managing to escape into a nearby forest. While police and townsmen engaged in an extensive search operation the gunman killed another person and evaded capture until the next day, when he was shot and wounded and subsequently taken into custody.
In the following months Schwarz was examined by several psychiatrists and was found to have a mental illness, resulting in his acquittal due to insanity. He was ordered to be institutionalized for the rest of his life.[1][2]
- ^ "Crazy Soldier Kills Four.; A Dozen, Besieging His House, Shoot One Another In a Night Panic". The New York Times. 1 September 1912. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
- ^ "Madman shoots, kills; captured". The Spokesman-Review. Vol. 30, no. 106. 29 September 1912. p. 2. Retrieved 4 August 2015 – via Google News.