FBI called to School Shooting (Red Lake, MN) Update: 10 dead

Star Tribune ^ | March 22, 2005

[wallcrawlr]

RED LAKE, Minn.-- The FBI was called to investigate a shooting today at Red Lake High School that may have injured 14 people, according to police and broadcast reports.

Tom Lyons, chief deputy for Beltrami County, said the shooting occured about 3 p.m. at the school in Red Lake. He said that as many as 14 people were injured. He said he did not know if any of the victims had been killed. "We don't know that yet," he said. "Our information is just too sketchy right now."

KSTP-TV in the Twin Cities was reporting that six people may have died and many others were injured.

[C-Note]

I agree, but please don't call me Baa-ba-booey, my teeth arent that large.

;-)

C

[Zhangliqun]

I agree, but please don't call me Baa-ba-booey, my teeth arent that large.

They can fix that, you know...

[dljordan]

You missed my point. Point being that someone that
> was paranoid might believe that these are staged
> events in order to promote more gun control. The
> favorite method used to promote activities such as
> this is drugging with Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, etc..
> All of these drugs have been shown to make kids (and
> adults) prone to suicide and/or homicide. Think
> Columbine.

[Euro-American Scum]

Pretty scandalous how little coverage this got in the mainstream press.

I've got to agree with you. The MSM and the Libs in Washington usually have an anti-Second Amendment orgasm when something like this happens. This time, nothing.

I wonder if it just wasn't sexy enough because it was on a Reservation or if they just wanted a chance to paint the Republicans and Bush as Christian fundamentalism obsessed kooks with the Fed's actions in the Terri case.

I think you're right on both counts. I think the right-to-death issue trumps the Second Amendment every single time.

[Right Wing Assault]

Ah! Media say Noble Red Man can commit no evil. White man must ignore. Go away. We saw nothing.

[VinnyCee]

"Media say Noble Red Man can commit no evil. White man must ignore. Go away. We saw nothing." - Right Wing Assault

No, the Indigneous person was just revolting against the neo-nazi racist's over at LibertyForum that talked him into killing a bunch of innocent people.

[future F22 pilot]

The kid passed an UNARMED securtiy guard, if this guy had been ARMED chances are this whole thing would have been averted.

[cyborg]

Terri Schiavo death watch that's why. I wonder what would be the reaction if it was a slow newsweek.

[miliantnutcase]

Red Star 'n Sickle

[ConservativeWarrior]

As a parent, I don't think I could let my kids go to a school equipped with metal detectors. I know the idea is to make the school safer, but just the fact that they had to be installed would make me think twice about the quality of life in the area.

[StormRedtail]

As of this post... Our toll is now up to 10 who did not survive. The entire Chippewa Nation feels this indescribable confusion from what happened at Red Lake High School. There are no words to go further, only that simple fact.

[wallcrawlr]

Welcome. Thanks for that post.


Confusion is an understandable feeling. Sometimes there is not much to say inititally because of the pain.
Please know that this fellow Minnesotan has prayed for your people. If it affects you it affects us all. The tribe is not alone in this. We are here to help.

[wallcrawlr]

As of this post...Its being reported (via local radio) that the security guard saw the student approach the school, saw the student drive up to the school and saw the student with the weapons.

Security guard was unarmed.

When I find a link Ill post it.

[Hardastarboard]

the 2nd guarantees kids can have guns. There ain't no age restrictions.

There are restrictions if I have to buy the ammo. My kids would spend all my money on ammo if I didn't have gun control in my house. ;-)

[maggief]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/156/5308100.html

EXCERPTS

Sondra Hegstrom, who said she had had classes with Weise, said he was quiet and "never said anything." He was teased -- "terrorized," she said -- by people who thought he was weird.

He often wore "a big old black trench coat," she said, and drew pictures of skeletons. "He talked about death all the time."

A couple of his friends had said he was suicidal, she said. They quoted him as saying once, "That would be cool if I shot up the school."

The friends dismissed it as talk, Hegstrom said.

But Willy May, 18, who knew Weise from school, said people shouldn't have been surprised.

"He fits the profile of a Columbine shooter, man," he said.

May said Weise always wore combat boots "with red shoelaces," similar to those of the shooters at Columbine High School.

He said that Weise "always had stacks of drawings, disturbed drawings." Some, he said, would show people with bullets going through their skulls.

May also said that "a while back," Weise "got blamed" for phoning in bomb threats at the school. "I'm not sure if it was him or not, but he got blamed," May said.

(snip)

Recently, school officials relegated Weise to a home tutoring program. He was known to post messages on a Nazi website.

Using the screen name Native Nazi, Weise wrote: "As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing there are barely any full blooded Natives left. ... It's hard though, being a Native American National Socialist; people are so misinformed, ignorant, and closed-minded it makes your life a living hell."

Posting under the name "Blades11," Weise appeared to be a regular contributor to fiction websites. On one, Weise wrote, "I'm a fan of zombie films, have been for years, as well as fan of horror movies in general," he wrote. "I like to write horror stories, read about Nazi Germany and history, and someday plan on moving out of the [United States]."

(snip)

It's similar to the teen she saw daily as of late, she said.

"He would always wear that long dark coat and those baggy pants," she said. "I couldn't even tell you what shoes he ever wore because of those clothes."

Gurneau attributes some of Weise's troubles to his beleaguered life. His father, Daryl Lussier Jr., known to relatives as "Baby Dash," committed suicide in July 1997 following a police standoff that lasted for more than a day, Gurneau said. Not even Lussier's father, Red Lake officer Daryl Lussier, could negotiate a peaceful ending. The senior Lussier was one of Weise's first victims Monday.

Years later, Joanne Weise suffered brain damage in a car accident after she and a friend had been drinking, Gurneau said.

At 6 feet and 250 pounds, Jeff Weise also was the target of constant razzing. "Plus he was held back a couple of grades," Gurneau said.

(snip)

[JLO]

Hey fellow Minnesotan FRiend. If you want the latest local news from a town nearby - Bemidji

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=18826&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=

(I had to register after reading a few posts.)

They want to be left alone to grieve in their own way, without media.

[StormRedtail]

It goes without saying that each tribe has their own ways of mourning the crossing of someone's spirit through the veil of time. I'm still trying unsuccessfully to comprehend any of it. Everyone who went to school knows there have always been cliques, no matter how small the village they lived in. Likewise, people of all ages, all race, creed, color, religion, what-have-you are bullied every day. I cant accept the 'reason' I'm being told, and forgiveness is expected according to the elders. I'm not doing real well with that.

The vigil tonight is going to be difficult, and that's putting it mildly.

[Eagle Eye]

Went through the ordeal of a school mass murder in 1997. Neighbors shot and the shooter was a friend and had been to our house for birthday parties. Triple funeral for three young teenage girls. The murderer is now out of custody since turning 18. His parents are 'victims' as much as anyone living.

[JLO]

It goes without saying that each tribe has their own ways of mourning the crossing of someone's spirit through the veil of time. I'm still trying unsuccessfully to comprehend any of it. Everyone who went to school knows there have always been cliques, no matter how small the village they lived in. Likewise, people of all ages, all race, creed, color, religion, what-have-you are bullied every day. I cant accept the 'reason' I'm being told, and forgiveness is expected according to the elders. I'm not doing real well with that. The vigil tonight is going to be difficult, and that's putting it mildly.

I send my prayers to you all, StormRedtail.