Erfurt school shooting: Parents didn’t know son had been expelled

The parents of a teenage gunman who killed 16 people and himself at his former school did not know he had been expelled, German police have said.

As investigators developed a fuller picture of the 19-year-old behind one of the deadliest school shootings, they said Robert Steinhaeuser’s parents had no idea he had been kicked out of school for forging a doctor’s note - a humiliation that authorities believe triggered Friday’s rampage in Erfurt.