from ajc.com
10 **** in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
By JOSHUA FREED
Associated Press Writer
BEMIDJI, Minn. — A high school student went on a **** rampage on an Indian reservation Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, grinning and waving as he fired, authorities and witnesses said. The suspect apparently **** himself after exchanging gunfire with police.
It was the nation's worst **** since the Columbine massacre in 1999.
One student said her classmates pleaded with the **** to stop ****.
"You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?" student Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji, using the name of the suspected ****.
Before the shootings at Red Lake High School, the suspect's grandparents were shot in their home and died later. There was no immediate indication of the ****'s motive.
In addition to the ****, the death toll at the school included five students, a teacher and a security guard, FBI spokesman Paul McCabe said in Minneapolis.
Fourteen to 15 other students were injured, McCabe said. Some were being cared for in Bemidji, about 20 miles south of Red Lake. Authorities closed roads to the reservation in far northern Minnesota while they investigated the shootings.
Hegstrom described the **** grinning and waving at a student his gun was pointed at, then swiveling to shoot someone else. "I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that's when I hid," she told The Pioneer.
McCabe declined to talk about a possible connection between the suspect and the couple **** at the home, but Red Lake Fire Director Roman Stately said they were the grandparents of the ****. He identified the ****'s grandfather as Daryl Lussier, a longtime officer with the Red Lake Police Department, and said Lussier's guns may have been used in the shootings.
Stately said the **** had two handguns and a shotgun.
"After he shot a security guard, he walked down the hallway **** and went into a classroom where he shot a teacher and more students," Stately told Minneapolis television station KARE.
Students and a teacher, Diane Schwanz, said the **** tried to break down a door to get into her classroom.
"I just got on the floor and called the cops," Schwanz told the Pioneer. "I was still just half-believing it."
Ashley Morrison, another student, had taken refuge in Schwanz's classroom. With the **** banging on the door, she dialed her mother on her cell phone. Her mother, Wendy Morrison, said she could hear gunshots on the line.
"'Mom, he's trying to get in here and I'm scared,'" Ashley Morrison told her mother.
All of the **** students were found in one room. One of them was a boy believed to be the ****, McCabe said. He would not comment on reports that the boy shot himself and said it was too early to speculate on a motive.
Martha Thunder's 15-year-old son, Cody, was being treated for a gunshot wound to the hip.
"He heard gunshots and the teacher said 'No, that's the janitor's doing something,' and the next thing he knew, the kid walked in there and pointed the gun right at him," Thunder said.
The school was evacuated after the shootings and locked down for the investigation, McCabe said.
"It will probably take us throughout the night to really put the whole picture together," he said.
It was the nation's worst **** since two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., **** 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 before killing themselves on April 20, 1999.
The rampage in Red Lake was the second fatal **** in Minnesota in 18 months. Two students were **** at Rocori High School in Cold Spring in September 2003. Student John Jason McLaughlin, who was 15 at the time, awaits trial in the case.
Red Lake High School, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, has about 300 students, according to its Web site.
The reservation is about 240 miles north of the Twin Cities. It is home to the Red Lake Chippewa Tribe, one of the poorest in the state. According to the 2000 census, 5,162 people lived on the reservation, and all but 91 were Indians.
I mean really..some kids nowadays are just crazy. I mean they said the damn boy was grinning and waving as he fired...what the hell...just going around **** at anybody...lawd help him
ok, i reallllly dont mean to sound insensitive, but does ne1 kno wut race this kid was? cause im just sayin, we'v already got the snipers on our hands and all............. i mean, im sorry :-(
i don't feel you're being insensitive....that is a valid question....
the shootings took place at a school located on an Indian reservation, and i read in the msnbc story that 5,162 people were reported to have been living on the reservation in 2000...with only 91 being non-Indians...
so that implies he might've in fact been Indian...
HOWEVER...the article also mentioned early within it that the boy was known for being fascinated with "neo-****"....so that implies he was White....but then again, maybe not...he could've been of another race and fascinated with that garbage....who knows....
but I doubt he was Black...just based on those two facts, if nothing else....
not that that takes away from anything....
the only reason I want to know what his race was is because it just amazes me how...if he in fact was White...how despite all of the incidents in the past AND present that involve **** and demented White people killing innocent people....how they STILL do not have as great any stereotypes as Blacks and others have....
any stereotypes that exist about them are always "just jokes"....but ours, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans....are the ones to be taken seriously and taken caution about....
that just irritates the hell out of me...
but anyway....
my prayers definitely go out to all of the victims and their families....
regardless of who or what he was....that was so insane and uncalled for...
i'm not exactly sure what the hell you just said, but my response will be a mixed message of "i feel you monte" and "monte you're one sick f*ck". the first and last sentence get the "random, sick f*ck" response
wtf is wrong with mofokas today!!!
