Conflicting updates ....link
Update - 4.35pm: Police spokesman Bernd Hochstaedter said authorities were told early on Thursday afternoon that an armed man had entered the Kinopolis movie theatre in the town of Viernheim and that shots had apparently been fired. Hesse's interior minister, Peter Beuth, said it was not clear whether the weapon was real. Hochstaedter said that the police deployment lasted around three hours. He said: "We believe that there were no injured people, and that the people who were in the cinema with the perpetrator could be freed uninjured."
Update - 4.25pm: Police say no one has been injured by a gunman at German cinema. Update - 4.10pm: A man who launched a gun attack in a cinema complex in Viernheim, Germany, has been shot dead, local media has reported, quoting the interior Ministry.
Update - 4.05pm: A man has been arrested after at least 20 people were injured after a gun attack in a cinema complex in Viernheim, Germany, local media has reported.
US SWAT let the shooter go on a 3 hour killing spree.
German police had their shooter dead in about an hour.
Germany just put the US to shame. Either way, not very good response time when seconds count.