High School Shooting, Red Lake, Minnesota Options

[onenonly101]

There was a school shooting in Minnesota yesterday on a reservation, the boy shot and killed his grandparents then killed 5 students,one teacher, and a security gaurd. Then, like a coward killed himself. I cannot fathom what is wrong with this world today, people seem to think the only way to solve a problem is to kill the person causing you problems. Most of the people did nothing wrong AT ALL they just came to school on the wrong day i guess. This place is messed up, i cannot wait until Jesus comes back.

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^it should work now

[*lolita kitty*]

hm, link dosen't work.

[xTINAA]

Yes highschool shootings are horrible. I remember when Columbine happened a few years back and how freaked out we were here.

[ohh_so_elektrikk...]

i know, its so sad... and just think how the parents of all those students feel, when they get the phone call that their child was murdered in a school shooting. its too sad to even think about

[Teesa]

gosh that story made me so sad upset..when columbine happened here in colorado I couldn't even comprehend it and I hoped something like that would never happen again..but seriously, it won't stop.

[lakerfever2476]

The sad thing was that students knew about it and didn't say anything to the counselors. Had they told, lives wouldn't have been lost.

[PinoyOtaku]

(CNN) -- A Minnesota Indian reservation is trying to overcome "shock and disbelief" as it looks for reasons why a high school student went on a shooting rampage Monday, killing nine people and wounding as many as 13 others before killing himself.

Police said the student, Jeffrey Weise, killed two of his grandparents, went to his high school and killed seven people there.

The dead include five students, a female teacher, a male security officer.

Floyd Jourdain, chairman of the Red Lake Ojibwa Nation, said he "knew practically all the people involved" in the shootings on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. The community is dealing with "shock and disbelief," he said.

"This is a small community," he said. "There will not be one soul who isn't touched by this tragedy here in Red Lake."

"It still hasn't sunk in," he said.

About 5,000 members of the Ojibwa tribe live on the reservation. The Ojibwa are also known as the Chippewa.

Jourdain would not comment further on the case, saying the FBI had scheduled a news conference.

FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe said Monday that the FBI thought the shooter was acting alone.

The slain students were shot in one room of the school, he said.

"Apparently, he walked down the hallway shooting and then he entered a classroom, he shot several students and a teacher, then himself," said Roman Stately, with the Red Lake Fire Department, who arrived at the high school moments after the shootings Monday.

Witness Sondra Hegstrom described the gunman grinning and waving, according to The Pioneer of nearby Bemidji, Minnesota.

"I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that's when I hid," she told the newspaper.

Teacher Diane Schwanz told The Pioneer that the shooter tried to break through the door to her classroom.

"I just got on the floor and called the cops," Schwanz told the paper. "I was still just half-believing it."

The shootings occurred about 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) in Red Lake High, a school of 300 students that is on a sovereign Indian reservation near the Canadian border about 240 miles north of the Twin Cities.

The FBI said Weise apparently shot his grandmother and grandfather to death at their home on the reservation before going to the school. The grandfather was a veteran of the reservation's police department, and his police-issued weapon was used in the rampage, the FBI said.

Weise was 17, school board member Kathryn Beaulieu, told The Associated Press.

Tribal authorities closed the reservation after the shootings, AP reported.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty expressed his condolences.

"We ask Minnesotans to help comfort the families and friends of the victims who are suffering unimaginable pain by extending prayers and expressions of support," his office said in a statement.

Damn... I spent 5 months in an emotional growth school somewhere isolated in Northern Idaho, if I was still there when it happened...rap sessions (group therapies) would face a load more drama... My condolences go out to the loved ones of the victims and the gunman's families. May he be forgiven for his actions and may they all rest in peace...:(

[racoons > you]

thats awful...

*sends thoughts to families*

this is why the worldneeds tighter gun control laws

[*salcha*]

i am scared to go to school now (even though im sitting here in front of a school computer)
i remember a shooting some years back, at a high school near my city.
yeah, and the link doesn't work.

[parallel]

Yeah I heard about that yesterday on the news..sad stuff..and I myself can't wait till Jesus comes back.

[tainted_faerie]

I heard about this yesterday while I was going to sleep. I sat on my bed and remembered all the other times. Its so sad to see lives taken away so early. I hope all the families and friends of those people killed keep their memories alive. My condolences go out to them. When will people learn that doing these things wont help? People need to realize that depression, which I’m guessing was a motivator behind this killing, is a serious disease that needs to be treated. Not by forcing pills down people's throats, but being there for one another, talking things through...R.I.P

[YourSuperior]

That is so sad. All because of one dumb boy. He could have solved his problem another way, and death not being one of them.

[ilauqh]

I was still kind of young to hear much about Columbine when that happened but I heard about this new shooting yesterday on the news.. That get's me really upset.. I don't understand how ppl can kill ppl for most of the time not even doing anything to them and then go and killing themselves.. I read a book this year To Give a Boy a Gun and it was based on a story like this.. It wasn't true but it really does tell you a lot about shootings like this. It's really sad. What's wrong with the world these days?

[EmmalieV]

aw that was so sad , but it didnt get that much television publicity.

[slipper]

when i heard "...student kills 9 people..." on the news last night, i was like "again?" the scary thing is, it can happen anywhere, anytime.

[glit_gal]

The sad thing was that students knew about it and didn't say anything to the counselors. Had they told, lives wouldn't have been lost.

wow i didn't know that they knew

[jennyjenny]

I saw it on the news, too.

But it said that his dad died and his mom was at a nursing home or something, and I cannot believe how much grief he would have. Maybe he just wanted to kill himself and wanted to kill other people before he ended his life...

[Tung]

when will people learn.

Where is the Love- Black Eye Peas

ahah

[yukichan]

this is sad...its like a second columbine shooting...yup i agree, we all need to hear the song where is the love...wow...what is world becoming..now it scares me to go to school...my thoughts go out to the families involved..

[*SimplePlan_Luvr*]

The sad thing was that students knew about it and didn't say anything to the counselors. Had they told, lives wouldn't have been lost.

Sum kids knew 'bout it? How do they noe he was goin 2 shoot ppl? Did he lik tell sum kid or did they find out?

[lakerfever2476]

I watched news last night. They were interviewing this student. He said that the shooter was a loner and that last year, he planned it and told people about it.

To the person above me, not to be rude but please write right. I had to carefully analyze that post. Don't take it too seriously. =]

[DanielleMaria05]

Yeah, I heard about that. Someone from the News Crew here in Marietta was at my school today interviewing someone.

It's really scarry. I mean, I "think" my school is safe, even though I know 90% of the students have guns *thanks to the hickness, and how rual we are* lol

[mickybeans]

no matter where we go, we won't be safe. i remember hearing about this story and it just sent chills down my spine. a lot of students at my school makes a joke out of things like this and when people tease others, they always joke and say "don't aggrivate them, they're gonna bring a gun to school and shoot us all." its just so sad to know that simple words can literally tear someone apart in side and bring them to the brink of wanting to end not only THEIR lives but lives of other innocent victims. my condolences goes out to those that were affected in yet, another tragic school shooting event.

[Spirited Away]

when will people learn.

Where is the Love- Black Eye Peas

ahah

What's love got to do with it - Tina Turner

[xXirockhardXx]

Thats really messed up. Just to think how some people are going to react about their kids death.

[*jooleeah*]

I read a CNN article on that today. What a terrible thing to happen.

Yeah, I heard about that. Someone from the News Crew here in Marietta was at my school today interviewing someone.

It's really scarry. I mean, I "think" my school is safe, even though I know 90% of the students have guns *thanks to the hickness, and how rual we are* lol

Marietta?! What does georgia have to do with it? That's scary =X Marietta isn't THAT southern.

[william]

I read a book this year To Give a Boy a Gun and it was based on a story like this.. It wasn't true but it really does tell you a lot about shootings like this. It's really sad.

yes, i read that a few weeks ago and it was really depressing.

i heard about this today when i was looking for a current event. school shootings are so sad. the scary thing is i can actually picture some kids at my school doing that.

[xj_liana_tx]

i heard that on the news.. it's so ... wow...

[sammehmyst]

horrible, right?

i haven't heard about that yet.

edit: woah, i just reread the story a few times. notice he killed the grandparents at home? thats so sad

reminds me of that degrassi episode..

[inthemudhole]

Man, I've been to Red Lake so many times...
It was very sad. A lot of people in my town alone were sad about it, even though we're on the border of North Dakota and Minnesota, and Red Lake's on the other side of the Minnesota border.

Anyway, it is terrible. =/
It really didn't get enough publicity. It should have, if you ask me.

[*krnxswat*]

this is why the worldneeds tighter gun control laws

His grandfather was a former policeman, dumbnut.

[Chaos13]

oooh....thats terrible...im hoping people learn that shooting is bad!!! hping...:\

[laur3nw]

Yeah, I read that in today's newspaper. That' pretty sad. I wonder why that guy did that.

[to-devastate]

The world is messed up. That kid is messed up actually. I mean; who would do something like that? Crazy people; i say. Crazy! xD

[Levy2k6]

i read the article in the morning and we discussed it in our ROTC class... things like that can happen any day at ANY school.. no1 is safe.. u never know.. thats why i keep my door locked. haha.

[*basick*]

yeah thats f**ked up...... rip

[shortiiex]

i heard about that on MTV...tsk tsk

[blackbow]

i really feel sorry for the kid that did the shooting.... i mean, it sounded like his life was pretty bad.


his dad commited suicide.
his mom was in the hospital
he was picked on and called names at school
he shot his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend. that obviously indicates that he must not have liked them.

he believed that Hitler wasn't bad and that Nazism was a good thing.

then it said that last year he said something like "wouldn't it be cool to shoot up the school?" well, he could have meant it as is...or he could have been really angry or really sad seeing the situation he was in. he might have even said sorry the next day, but no one would remember that.



You can't imagine what it must be like to be a student in that school and know someone that died... or well just everyone at that school must feel horrible. fortunately, or maybe unfortunately i've never known anyone who has died, close enough to feel all that bad... but its guaranteed that someday it will happen to all of us, and it sucks really really bad knowing that.

[dani41790]

o gosh thats terrible. man what's up with that kid O_o

[inthemudhole]

o gosh thats terrible. man what's up with that kid O_o

I read that he was teased a lot in school and that he had a lot of anger built up inside of him and obviously just lashed out.

The kid looks so damn familar somehow....I swear I may have seen him before. (other than now)

EDIT//

I just read that two of the wounded (critical condition) are in the hospital in my town at the moment. They're not doing so well.