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Red Lake High School massacre

Aerial photograph taken during the aftermath of the school massacre.
Location Red Lake, Minnesota, United States
Target(s) Red Lake High School
Date Monday, March 21, 2005
Attack type School shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, massacre, spree killing
Weapon(s) Glock 17, handgun, shotgun
Deaths 10 (including the perpetrator)
Injured 6
Perpetrator(s) Jeffrey Weise

The Red Lake High School massacre was a school massacre that took place on Monday, March 21, 2005 in which Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Beltrami County, Minnesota, killed seven people including a teacher and a security guard. He had previously killed his grandfather (a police officer) and his grandfather's girlfriend/partner at home before going to school to commit the massacre. Seven others were wounded. When police cornered Weise inside the school, he shot and killed himself. Another student believed to be involved in planning the event was arrested one week after the shootings. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder based on several email messages he exchanged with Jeff Weise which involved plans for the Red Lake High School massacre. The conspiracy charge was eventually dropped, though he pled guilty to transmitting threatening messages through the Internet. This student was Louis Jourdain, son of Floyd Jourdain Jr, Tribal Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Native Americans. KARE television screenshot File links The following pages link to this file: Red Lake High School massacre Categories: Images with unknown source ... There is also a Red Lake County in Minnesota. ... Red Lake High School is a public state-funded high school in Red Lake, in Beltrami County, northern Minnesota, USA. The high school is located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on which members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians live, and has over 300 students [1... March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that 2006 School shooting outbreak be merged into this article or section. ... Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. ... A murder suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing himself. ... Photographs of the My Lai massacre provoked world outrage and made it an international scandal. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Glock 17 was the first pistol designed and manufactured by the Austrian company Glock. ... A Browning 9 millimeter Hi-Power Ordnance pistol of the French Navy, 19th century, using a Percussion cap mechanism Derringers were small and easily hidden. ... For other uses, see Shotgun (disambiguation). ... Jeff Weise around 9 years of age Jeffrey Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others before... Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... The Columbine High shooters caught on a security camera during their rampage. ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jeff Weise around 9 years of age Jeffrey Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others before... Red Lake High School is a public state-funded high school in Red Lake, in Beltrami County, northern Minnesota, USA. The high school is located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on which members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians live, and has over 300 students [1... There is also a Red Lake County in Minnesota. ... Beltrami County is a county located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area  Ranked 12th  - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 8. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A security officer guards a construction site. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ...

Contents

March 21 - Massacre on Red Lake reservation

Despite its commonly being referred to as the Red Lake High School massacre, two of the victims died in their home on the reservation.


Killing at home

The incident began on the afternoon of March 21 when Weise shot his grandfather, Daryl "Dash" Lussier, with a .22 pistol while Lussier was sleeping. It is not known how Weise got the pistol, but he is believed to have possessed it for as long as a year before the shooting.[citation needed] March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


Weise then stole Lussier's two police-issue weapons, a 9 mm Glock and pump-action shotgun. He shot Michelle Sigana, Lussier's girlfriend and (police) partner, when she returned home. ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ... Glock is an Austrian weapons manufacturer (named after the founder Gaston Glock) founded in 1963 in Deutsch-Wagram, near Vienna, Austria. ... A pump-action rifle or shotgun is one in which the fore-end of the stock can be pumped back and forth in order to eject and chamber a round of ammunition. ... For other uses, see Shotgun (disambiguation). ...


Shooting at Red Lake High School

Weise then drove his grandfather's squad car to school, arriving at around 2:45 p.m. Central Standard Time (19:45 UTC). Passing through the building's main entrance, he encountered unarmed security guard Derrick Brun, who was manning the school's metal detector. Weise fatally shot Brun, and then proceeded down a hallway firing at students, killing five students and a teacher (Neva Rogers) and injuring seven others. Witnesses say he smiled and waved as he shot at people. In an incident reminiscent of events that took place during the Columbine High School massacre, one witness said that he asked a victim if he believed in God. The victim replied "No" and the shooter turned away and shot other targets. [1] Contents // Categories: Emergency vehicles | Law enforcement equipment | Stub ...  CST or UTC-6 The Central Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting six hours from UTC during standard time (UTC-6) and five hours during daylight saving time (UTC-5). ... Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a high-precision atomic time standard. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Inductive sensor. ... The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado (the CDP of Columbine) near Denver and Littleton. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...


Brief shoot-out with police

FBI special agent Paul McCabe stated that at some point, Weise returned to the entrance where he had opened fire and engaged in a brief shoot-out with the police, which ended when he retreated to the classroom having been wounded in the hip and leg by at least two bullets. [2] The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), serving as both a federal criminal investigative body and a domestic intelligence agency. ...


Weapons

Weise was armed with the following during the shooting:

  • .22 handgun - Unknown where Weise got this weapon from, may have possessed it for up to a year before the shooting.
  • 9 mm Glock 17 - Stolen from Daryl Lussier (police issued weapon).
  • Shotgun - Also taken from Lussier's home. Possibly police issued, presumably 12 gauge.

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Victims of the school shooting

There were a total of 7 fatalities and 14 injuries in the school on March 21; March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


Faculty:

  • Neva Wynkoop-Rogers, 62, Teacher

Staff:

  • Derrick Brun, 28, unarmed security guard

Students:

  • Dewayne Lewis, 15
  • Chase Lussier, 15 (not related to Daryl Lussier)
  • Chanelle Rosebear, 15
  • Thurlene Stillday, 15
  • Alicia White, 14

Injured

  • Ryan Auginash, 14, gunshot wound to the chest.
  • Steven Cobenais, 15, shot in the forehead, airlifted to Fargo, North Dakota.
  • Lance Crowe, 15, gunshot wound to the hand and chest.
  • Jeffrey May, 15, tried to wrestle shooter, was shot in the neck.
  • Cody Thunder, 15, received a gunshot wound to the hip.

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Other Deaths

Perpetrator

Jeff Weise around 9 years of age Jeffrey Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was a high school student of Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre, a school shooting in which he killed nine people and injured more than a dozen others before... Rather than surrender to US soldiers, the Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Leipzig Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ...

Killed prior to the Shooting

  • Daryl Lussier, 58, killed by several .22 shots to the torso
  • Michelle Sigana, 32, killed by at least one 9 mm shot to the chest

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Aftermath

  • The Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr., stated that the shootings were "one of the darkest and most painful occurrences in the history of our tribe." [3]
  • Red Lake High School had installed metal detectors and had hired a security guard in 1995.
  • Louis Jourdain, the son of Tribal Chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr., was arrested in connection with the shootings on March 28, 2005 and charged with conspiracy. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder based on several email messages he exchanged with Jeff Weise which involved plans for the Red Lake High School massacre. The conspiracy charge was eventually dropped, though Jordain pled guilty to transmitting threatening messages through the Internet.
  • President Bush praised security guard Derrick Brun on March 26, 2006. He said "Derrick's bravery cost him his life, and all Americans honor him... ...Although he was unarmed, Derrick ignored the pleas of a colleague to run for his life... ...by engaging the assailant; he bought vital time for a fellow security guard to rush a group of students to safety."
  • The massacre was briefly blamed on the 2003 film Elephant which is about a school shooting and was watched by Jeffrey Weise 17 days prior to the shooting. [1] A friend of Weise said that he brought the movie over to a friends house and skipped ahead to parts that showed two students planning and carrying out a school massacre, although they talked about the film afterwards Jeffrey Weise said and did nothing to make anyone suspect what he was planning. [2]

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Internet activities

According to The Smoking Gun, Weise created a 30-second Flash animation animation called "Target Practice" and another, 50-second animation called "Clown" weeks before the shooting. He posted both animations at the newgrounds.com Web site. "Target Practice" depicts a character shooting four people and blowing up a police car before committing suicide; "Clown" ends with one character being strangled by a clown.[4] Screenshot from The Smoking Gun The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis. ... Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Adobe Flash Player, and to the Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program. ... Newgrounds is a website headquartered in Glenside, Pennsylvania, USA and created in 1995 that primarily hosts Adobe Flash animated films and games. ...


At Weise's MSN Profile page, he described himself as "16 years of accumulated rage suppressed by nothing more than brief glimpses of hope, which have all but faded to black."[5] MSN Groups Home MSN Groups is a commercial community site created by Microsoft in 1995. ...


See also

The Columbine High shooters caught on a security camera during their rampage. ... The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado (the CDP of Columbine) near Denver and Littleton. ... The Dawson College shooting occurred on September 13, 2006 at Dawson College, a CEGEP in Westmount near downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

References

  1. ^ http://guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,2763,1443322,00.html
  2. ^ http://kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=77443]. None of the officers were hit[http://guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,2763,1443322,00.html
  3. ^ http://rlnn.com/ArtMar05/BucksStatement.html
  4. ^ Editors (March 23, 2005) "School Killer's Animated Terror." Smokinggun.com
  5. ^ Editors (March 24, 2005) (Screen capture of Weise's MSN Profile Page) Smokinggun.com

External links

Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ...

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Red Lake High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (328 words)
Red Lake High School is a public state-funded high school in Red Lake, in Beltrami County, northern Minnesota, USA.
The high school is located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on which members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indians live, and has over 300 students.
Red Lake High School students can sign up for Ojibwe language classes (the language is also taught in elementary and middle schools in the district) and have a chance to learn Ojibwe traditions from community elders.
Red Lake High School massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (849 words)
The Red Lake High School massacre was a school massacre that took place on Monday, March 21, 2005 in which Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, killed seven people including a teacher and a security guard.
This was the deadliest school shooting in the United States since the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999, when twelve students and a teacher were fatally shot and twenty four others were wounded.
Red Lake High School had installed metal detectors and had hired a security guard in 1995.
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