Koolan Posted March 22, 2005 at 08:26 AM Posted March 22, 2005 at 08:26 AM BEMIDJI, Minn. - A high school student went on a shooting rampage on an Indian reservation, 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 killed himself after exchanging gunfire with police. It was the worst school shooting in the United States since the Columbine massacre in 1999 that killed 13 people. One student said her classmates pleaded with the gunman to stop shooting. "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 shooter. Before the shootings Monday at Red Lake High School, the suspect's grandparents were shot in their home and died later. There was no immediate indication of the gunman's motive. In addition to the shooter, the death toll at the school included five students, a teacher and a security guard, FBI spokesman Paul McCabe said in Minneapolis. Among the dead was Neva Rogers, 62, a teacher at the school for five or six years, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. 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. McCabe said the gunman first killed a school security officer near the school entrance. At some point, the shooter exchanged gunfire with Red Lake police in a hallway, then retreated to a classroom, where he was believed to have shot himself, McCabe said. Hegstrom described the shooter 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. ‘Walked down the hallway shooting’McCabe declined to talk about a possible connection between the suspect and the couple killed at the home, but Red Lake Fire Director Roman Stately said they were the grandparents of the gunman. He identified the shooter'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 shooter had two handguns and a shotgun. "After he shot a security guard, he walked down the hallway shooting 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 gunman 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 shooter 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, according to the newspaper. All of the dead students were found in one room. One of them was a boy believed to be the shooter, McCabe said. He 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, standing outside the hospital in Bemidji. Police officers were posted at the hospital Monday night to discourage reporters from entering. When a reporter approached three men walking across a hospital parking lot, one broke down in tears, and the others said they had no comment. ‘Darkest hour' for tribeThe 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. Floyd Jourdain Jr., chairman of the Red Lake Chippewa Tribe, called it "without a doubt the darkest hour" in the group's history. "There has been a considerable amount of lives lost, and we still don't know the total of that," Jourdain said. It was the nation's worst school shooting since two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 before killing themselves on April 20, 1999. The rampage in Red Lake was the second fatal school shooting in Minnesota in 18 months. Two students were killed 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.source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7259823/>1=6305 This is so sad Quote Please support the forum by ordering through our Amazon.com referral link below. Click here to go to the Amazon homepage.
Mozinha Posted March 22, 2005 at 08:35 PM Posted March 22, 2005 at 08:35 PM Oh my God I don't even know what to say Quote http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/welovecelinedion/howcute5gv2.jpghttp://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10501;104/st/20080413/e/my+graduation/dt/4/k/f5ff/event.png "And really - isn't NOT caring about what others think of you the hallmark of a cool person?"
tativale Posted March 22, 2005 at 08:51 PM Posted March 22, 2005 at 08:51 PM I saw it on TV today. Columbine part 2... My Godness!!! This world is crazy! I read that the boy used to say he was a nazist (sp) Quote http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/tativale/lildoll.gif"Sometimes we talk with our eyes and it says more than 10,000 words" moiIt's always possible to change! Vive le Québec"On ne grandit pas, on pousse un peu, tout juste, les temps d'un rêve, d'un songe,Et les toucher du doigt, Mais on n'oublie pas, L'enfant qui reste, presque nu, lesinstants d'innocence, Quand on savait pas... On ne change pas..."
Fanny! Posted March 22, 2005 at 09:32 PM Posted March 22, 2005 at 09:32 PM Reminds me so much of Columbine Jeeeeez, what world are we living in Quote LasVegas2011 by The Red Heads Official Program now available! http://i29.tinypic.com/311km1d.jpg THE RED HEADS
Celine's Wife Posted March 23, 2005 at 02:10 AM Posted March 23, 2005 at 02:10 AM OMFG..... I used to live in Minnesota.... but Bemidji is way up north Quote Beautiful Sin - My Elizabeth Perkins Website! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/cathydion2/cdfsig.jpg We might kiss when we are alone... When nobody's watching... We might take it home... We might make out... When nobody's there... It's not that we're scared... It's just that it's delicate... We might live like never before... When there's nothing to give... Well how can we ask for more... We might make love in some sacred place... The look on your face is delicate
Kye Posted March 23, 2005 at 02:23 AM Posted March 23, 2005 at 02:23 AM OMFG..... I used to live in Minnesota.... but Bemidji is way up north<{POST_SNAPBACK}>yeah soo scary..i live only 3 hrs. away Quote Du Soleil Au Coeur
AllCeline Posted March 23, 2005 at 08:07 PM Posted March 23, 2005 at 08:07 PM I saw it on TV today. Columbine part 2... My Godness!!! This world is crazy! I read that the boy used to say he was a nazist (sp)<{POST_SNAPBACK}> As soon as I read the topic, the word "Columbine" came to my mind instantly! Can you believe it! How horrible can things get!? I can only imagine how the families of the ten victims must feel... Quote http://i34.tinypic.com/9ybm.jpghttp://i54.tinypic.com/o56kr5.jpghttp://i54.tinypic.com/vhqqu9.jpg>> flickr | WordPress <<Celine Dion needs another ANDHC/OH album!No more Taking Chances--just do what works!
Mozinha Posted March 23, 2005 at 08:25 PM Posted March 23, 2005 at 08:25 PM The world is going crazy Quote http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/welovecelinedion/howcute5gv2.jpghttp://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10501;104/st/20080413/e/my+graduation/dt/4/k/f5ff/event.png "And really - isn't NOT caring about what others think of you the hallmark of a cool person?"
tativale Posted March 23, 2005 at 09:48 PM Posted March 23, 2005 at 09:48 PM I saw it on TV today. Columbine part 2... My Godness!!! This world is crazy! I read that the boy used to say he was a nazist (sp)<{POST_SNAPBACK}> As soon as I read the topic, the word "Columbine" came to my mind instantly! Can you believe it! How horrible can things get!? I can only imagine how the families of the ten victims must feel... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah that's so sad! Some crazy people in this world... Quote http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/tativale/lildoll.gif"Sometimes we talk with our eyes and it says more than 10,000 words" moiIt's always possible to change! Vive le Québec"On ne grandit pas, on pousse un peu, tout juste, les temps d'un rêve, d'un songe,Et les toucher du doigt, Mais on n'oublie pas, L'enfant qui reste, presque nu, lesinstants d'innocence, Quand on savait pas... On ne change pas..."
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