Awwal 07, 1432, Feb 10, 2011, SPA -- A German court has convicted a 52-year-old man of negligent manslaughter for failing to properly secure a gun that his teenage son used to kill 15 people, according to AP. The Stuttgart state court on Thursday gave the man a 21-month suspended sentence for not securing his 9mm Beretta pistol, the news agency DAPD reported. The man's 17-year-old son used the weapon to kill nine students and three teachers at his former high school, and three people elsewhere, in March 2009. Tim Kretschmer then killed himself with the weapon during an exchange of gunfire with police.