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School Shooting in Minnesota.....

Alan

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as many as 18 shot by a student....

soon to be a huge story.....shooter killed himself....at least six dead

shot and killed his grandfather and grandmother before going to school....
 
link since it isn't on any of the news channels

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCHOOL_SHOOTING?SITE=ALTAL&SECTION=HOME
Deaths Reported in Minn. School Shooting

RED LAKE, Minn. (AP) -- Several people were shot and some were killed Monday at a Minnesota high school, the FBI said. The FBI did not say how many people had been killed or wounded, and did not release any other details.

Chief deputy Tom Lyons told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that the shooting occurred about 3 p.m. at the school in Red Lake. He said that as many as 14 people were injured.

KSTP-TV reported that a suspect was in custody.
 
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My little sister is 10, and I hate the thought of her even being out of my sight because of things like this and the murder of the girl down in Florida. It blows my mind to think of the kind of sick people it takes to do this.
 
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This is so sad when you read and see things like this happen.

I often wonder if incidents like this would have still occurred if the media didn't feel the need to glorify it by talking about it over and over, show the same videos over and over and just go on and on and on.

I'm just so thankful that my son is no longer in school, otherwise I would probably be a nervous wreck.
 
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Count's up to 10. Just plain sick stuff

10 Dead in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
By JOSHUA FREED, Associated Press Writer

BEMIDJI, Minn. - A high school student went on a shooting rampage on this Indian reservation Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, "grinning and waving" as he fired, authorities and witnesses said. The gunman was later found shot to death.

It was the nation's worst school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999.

Students pleaded with the gunman to stop shooting.

"You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?" Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji, using the name of the suspected shooter.

Before the shootings 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.

Six students including the gunman were killed at the school, along with a teacher and a security guard, FBI (news - web sites) spokesman Paul McCabe said at a news conference in Minneapolis.

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 the reservation while they investigate the shootings.

Hegstrom described the gunman 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.

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 shooter. 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 shooter 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.

All of the dead students were found in one room. One of them was a boy believed to be the shooter, McCabe said. He would not comment on reports that the boy shot himself and said it was too early to speculate on a motive.

The school was evacuated after the shootings and locked down for investigation, McCabe said.

"It will probably take us throughout the night to really put the whole picture together," he said.

It was the nation's worst school shooting since two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 before killing themselves on April 20, 1999.

The last apparent fatal school shootings involving a student also happened in Minnesota in September 2003, when two students were killed at Rocori High School in Cold Spring. Classmate John Jason McLaughlin, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, awaits trial in the case.

That shooting was the first major incident reported since 2001.

Red Lake High School, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in far northern Minnesota, 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 full-blooded Indians.

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Red Lake High School: http://www.paulbunyan.net/rlschools/hs.htm
 
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I often wonder if incidents like this would have still occurred if the media didn't feel the need to glorify it by talking about it over and over, show the same videos over and over and just go on and on and on.
Skins you beat me to it.........i've often thought the same thing, that the media plays a certain role in all of this.......if you are the kind of person that is capable of these sort of acts, and have no regard for human lives, and have nothing to live for, i'm sure there is an allure there, in the fact that you will become instantly famous and be talked about for years to come, and make your mark on history, thanks to the media glorification........everybody knows the names Ted Kezynski(sp?), Timothy McVey, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc., etc............it makes me wonder if the guys that are capable of these kind of things aren't thinking of ways to outdue those before them
 
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