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FARGO, N.D. — Ten weeks after he was left for dead in his high school classroom, Jeffrey May walked out of the hospital, saying he looked forward to sports and to going back to school. "Obviously, this is a huge day for Rudy,'' said Dr. William Klava, who directed the teenagers' physical rehabilitation at Fargo's MeritCare Hospital. "He has been an inspiration for a lot of other patients around here.'' The 15-year-old was shot in the neck at close range during the March 21 attack at Red Lake High School that left 10 people dead. His therapists call him "Rudy,''...

An AP Story that ran in USA Today said that Weise posted information about his own mental state in the months before he killed nine people and himself. But the story failed to note that his comments included favorable references to using marijuana or MJ. Weise said, "MJ is my gal of choice." A March 25 Washington Post article by Blaine Harden and Dana Hedgpeth said Weise had serious mental problems but ignored the pot connection. A March 24 Post article by Ceci Connolly and Dana Hedgpeth described "a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression in a...

The Washington Post published a story on Match 25 faulting President Bush for not injecting himself quickly enough into the tragic killings at the Indian reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. Post reporter Ceci Connolly found a volunteer at an Indian office who said about Bush, "I don't feel he cares about the American Indian people." This is a classic case of a manufactured story designed to make the president look bad. Connolly, a contributor to Fox News, wrote that "The reaction to Bush's silence was particularly bitter given his high-profile, late-night intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Star Tribune warned its readers Saturday that some might be offended by a comic strip about the Red Lake Indian Reservation shootings. In the syndicated ''La Cucaracha'' strip that also ran Saturday, a teacher asks what President Bush might have said to console those affected by the shootings last month which left 10 people dead, including the teenage gunman.One student answers, ''I'm really so sorry you're not an Anglo suburban reservation.'' Another says, ''You shoulda stuck to arrows.'' A third says, ''Pow? Wow!''Editor Anders Gyllenhaal, in a note to readers, said the paper was not aware...

RED LAKE, MINN. -- A percolating debate about whether teenage gunman Jeff Weise should be called a "victim" is turning financial. Families of Red Lake High School shooting victims set to receive a flood of financial support from across the country have seen only a trickle so far. Yet there are angry divisions about whether Weise, who on March 21 killed his grandfather, his grandfather's companion, a teacher, a school guard and five schoolmates before taking his own life, should be called a victim. "Why are they considering him to be a victim when he killed everybody?" asked Victoria Brun,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The day after the Red Lake shootings, the latest of three mass killings in Minnesota and Wisconsin in recent months, a group of House Democrats fired off a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., demanding a fresh look at new gun legislation. But gun control was not on the agenda when Congress returned last week from spring break. Top Republicans are loath to do anything that could restrict gun rights, and Democratic leaders -- still smarting from recent election reverses -- aren't eager to advertise themselves as the antigun party either. Unlike the 1999 Columbine...

Who's Crazy Now? Lady Liberty I don't typically comment on school shootings at any length. That's largely because most of these tragic incidences have been so much alike, and I don't much care for the idea of repeating myself ad nauseum. But the recent school shootings in Red Lake, Minnesota are different for me. You see, I grew up in nearby Bemidji, Minnesota. Hearing my obscure little hometown mentioned repeatedly on Fox News and CNN, or seeing the name of the small town newspaper there cited as a source for international news wire stories, is jarring. The victims of the...

The commentary on the recent murder of 9 people by a teen-aged gunman at a Minnesota Indian reservation school tells us as much about our cultural dysfunctions as do the killings themselves. As the pundits pore over the killer's life, every possible cause is analyzed except the one that really counts-the spiritual problem of human evil. Instead, all the usual determinist suspects are rounded up by our secular culture, the usual symptoms confused with causes. Violence in the media and video games, internet hate groups, divorce, social isolation, "Goth" fashion, flabby gun control, inadequate self-esteem-boosting curricula and counseling services in...

WHAT COULD drive a child to kill? That’s the question residents of the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota are asking after 16-year-old Jeff Weise shot to death his grandfather and grandfather’s partner, before killing seven people at Red Lake High School--including a teacher, security guard and five classmates--and finally turning the gun on himself. This is the worst school shooting since the killings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999. The media focused on the strange blend of neo-Nazi politics that Weise, an Native American, seemingly embraced. But the real source of such a desperate and terrible...

RED LAKE (AP) -- A security guard credited with saving lives at Red Lake High School by confronting a teenage gunman was remembered at his funeral yesterday as a hero and a warrior. Derrick Brun was the first person shot at the school by Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old who also killed five fellow students and a teacher before killing himself. He earlier had killed his grandfather and the elder man's girlfriend. Meanwhile, a law-enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said the teenage son of the chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa had been arrested in connection with...

Suspect Arrested in Minnesota Shootings March 28, 2005 11:17 PM EST RED LAKE, Minn. - The teenage son of the tribal chairman has been arrested in connection with last week's shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said Monday. Louis Jourdain, son of Floyd Jourdain Jr. and a student at Red Lake High School, where most of the killings took place, was arrested Sunday, the source told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity. Nine people were killed in last Monday's attacks before 16-year-old gunman Jeff Weise, also a student at...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - (KRT) - The teenage son of Red Lake Nation tribal chairman Floyd Jourdain has been arrested on federal charges stemming from last week's deadly school shooting on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Louis Jourdain, 15, a student at Red Lake Senior High School where Jeff Weise fatally shot five students, a teacher, a security guard, his grandfather and the grandfather's companion before killing himself March 21, was taken into custody Sunday evening, according to sources with knowledge of the arrest. One of the sources, who spoke on the condition his name not be used, said Jourdain...

RED LAKE, Minn. - A juvenile has been arrested in last week's shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, federal authorities said Monday. They would not say how the juvenile was believed to be connected to the attack, which left 10 people dead, including the 16-year-old gunman. U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said the juvenile was arrested Sunday, but declined to give any details, including the age and gender of the juvenile. Heffelfinger said federal law required him to withhold the details. The gunman, Jeff Weise, a student with a history of depression, shot to death his grandfather and the...

Federal authorities in the United States have announced the arrest of a juvenile in connection to last week’s shooting rampage at a high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. Officials would not say how the youth was involved in the attack, which left 10 people dead, including the 16-year-old gunman. US Attorney Tom Heffelfinger said the juvenile had been arrested a day earlier, but declined to reveal any further details, including the age or gender of the youth. Investigators said last week that Jeff Weise had acted alone in the shooting, which shocked the tightly-knit community, in the northern...

RED LAKE, Minn. - Federal authorities no longer believe that Red Lake school shooter Jeff Weise acted alone. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has confirmed that authorities have arrested a juvenile today in connection with the the Red Lake school shooting, which occurred a week ago. The shooter, Jeff Weise, took his own life after killing nine people, including his grandfather, several students, a security guard, and a teacher. A federal search warrant was executed on the Red Lake Reservation today, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has also learned. Up to this point, authorities have continually said that the Weise acted alone. The arrest...

Apostles of hatred find message easy to spread I just visited the Web site that fascinated Jeff Weise, the 16-year-old who shot up his high school last week on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. There, I learned that the tribes of humanity must be separated or risk destruction by assimilation. That Jews are a "fanatical religious-ethnic" group conspiring to control communications media. And that for all the dubious talk about a "Holocaust," you never hear about the good things Adolf Hitler did. I also read the posts that Weise left on the site's bulletin board. I was particularly interested...

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR London ADOLESCENTS don't conceive the notion of strafing their classmates in a vacuum; they get the idea from cable TV. Bad news in itself, the 10-fatality reprise of the American school shooting last week at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota bolsters the archetype. It makes a trend that had seemed to subside since Columbine in 1999 seem current again, and prospectively gives more boys big ideas. The lessons we've been meant to learn from school shootings have been legion. We need better gun control. We need to be more understanding of misfits. We need to stop...

Polaris Jeff Weise, whose rampage killed 10 people, took antidepressants. RED LAKE, Minn., March 25 - In their sleepless search for answers, the family of Jeff Weise, the teenager who killed nine people and then himself, says it is left wondering about the drugs he was prescribed for his waves of depression. On Friday, as Tammy Lussier prepared to bury Mr. Weise, who was her nephew, and her father, who was among those he killed, she found herself looking back over the last year, she said, when Mr. Weise began taking the antidepressant Prozac after a suicide attempt that...

RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) - The obituary in the small town paper was heartbreaking: Chase Albert "Beka" Lussier, born Dec. 23, 1989, died March 21 at Red Lake High School. A freshman who played basketball and loved computer games. Six paragraphs down, beside the photograph of a chubby-cheeked, smiling boy, came this sentence: "He spent his time juggling life between his family and his son." A father at 15. Dead three months later. Shot with eight others by an alienated, despondent upperclassman who, at the end of his 10-minute walk through Red Lake High School, turned one of his guns...

For Immediate ReleaseMarch 26, 2005 President's Radio Address      Audio THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend, millions of Americans celebrate the joyous holiday of Easter. Easter is the most important event of the Christian faith, when people around the world join together with family and friends to celebrate the power of love conquering death. At Easter time we pray for all who serve in our military. The outstanding members of our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are keeping America secure and advancing liberty in the world. We remember especially those who have given their lives in...