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School Shooting nearby
2005-03-21, 4:18 PM #1
One the local Indian reservation had a school shooting today, 6 dead, 14 wounded
Quote:
From correspondents in St. Paul, Minnesota

March 22, 2005

A GUNMAN had shot more than a dozen people at a school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, local media reported.

Six people were dead and the gunman had killed himself, according to broadcast reports.

AP reports that police chief deputy Tom Lyons said up to 14 people were injured in the mid-afternoon shooting.

He said a suspect was in custody, but he had no other details.

Red Lake High School, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, has about 300 students, according to its website.

There were roadblocks reported around the reservation.

The reservation is about 390km north of St Paul and is home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.

Reuters

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well that sucks
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
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2005-03-21, 4:19 PM #2
That's 25 miles from SiliconC's hometown. :eek:
2005-03-21, 4:36 PM #3
Well, I've got the news on right now, and it's up to 8 dead


{added} 2 boys, 2 girls, male security guard, female teacher, and two others
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DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
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2005-03-21, 4:37 PM #4
That sucks.

I remember at one point, there was a regular member here who had gone to Columbine.
2005-03-21, 4:45 PM #5
Gah. That would creep the **** out of me.
D E A T H
2005-03-21, 4:48 PM #6
not movin to Minnesota now
Laughing at my spelling herts my feelings. Well laughing is fine actully, but posting about it is not.
2005-03-21, 5:00 PM #7
I don't think "that sucks" will describe how I feel about such tragic events.
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2005-03-21, 5:17 PM #8
Oh wow, that's really bad. It's such a tragedy when these things happen.
Stuff
2005-03-21, 5:27 PM #9
:( I know several people that go to school there; I also played football and basketball at that school a few times when I was in High School. :(

I can't exactly say I didn't see it coming though. Just to get into the school you have to go past 10 foot tall barbed wire fences and then through metal detectors. That whole reservation is a cest pool for violence.
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2005-03-22, 12:09 AM #10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370617.stm

Bad, bad times.
2005-03-22, 12:11 AM #11
That's just not right.
Pissed Off?
2005-03-22, 12:23 AM #12
Jeez, I think he was armed well enough...

I would say this is disturbing, but it's honestly not to me anymore.
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2005-03-22, 5:54 AM #13
That's too bad. I just hope school authorities don't decide to go on another witch hunt like they did after Columbine.
Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....
2005-03-22, 6:17 AM #14
*sigh* I'm guessing video games might get blamed.... again.

It's truly sad when a student just looses his mind and goes beserk on everyone.
No sig.
2005-03-22, 6:35 AM #15
There's actually already a thread about this.

But yeah, it does suck. I just wonder what drives people to do these things.
D E A T H
2005-03-22, 7:25 AM #16
middle school can be pure hell, though.

I can see why this guy might want revenge if people were giving him s*** all the time, but I don't condone his actions of shooting the place up. Back in my day, you only got a proverbial slap on the wrist for fighting, so all you had to do was fight back to earn yourself some respect. Kids don't have it as easy anymore.
2005-03-22, 7:42 AM #17
Fighting really isnt that much better of a way of resolving the situation.
2005-03-22, 9:04 AM #18
Quote:
Originally posted by HCF_Duke
*sigh* I'm guessing video games might get blamed.... again.

It's truly sad when a student just looses his mind and goes beserk on everyone.


Thats exactly what my mom said. Its like videogames are becoming a scapegoat for everything.
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2005-03-22, 9:10 AM #19
well he kinda put minnesota on the map
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2005-03-22, 9:36 AM #20
Videogames aren't going to get blamed for this one.

Quote:
Student Sondra Hegstrom, 17, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Weise was into goth culture, wore "a big old black trench coat," drew pictures of skeletons, listened to heavy metal music and "talked about death all the time."


More prejudices. Great, dammit.
2005-03-22, 9:48 AM #21
jeez i hear about this last night, though she said it was 10 people killed and it was in bemidji. hope this is the same thing and she just got her info wrong... bleh this sucks. apparently it's the 2nd one in MN and the worst since columbine

[edit] er yeah genki just typed it wrong. 10 dead, 15 injured. blah :([/edit]
2005-03-22, 10:00 AM #22
Why do they need to blame some sort of culture? I mean, it was HIM. HE shot them, not goths, or videogames.

And my comment: :(
Sneaky sneaks. I'm actually a werewolf. Woof.
2005-03-22, 10:03 AM #23
Oxy: It's an argumentive fallacy called "Guilt by Association".

2005-03-22, 10:14 AM #24
That's what I mean by the whole witch hunt after Columbine. It definitely only makes things worse for kids who are different, because they single out kids who are different as being the next ones to go off.

I was quiet and suddenly I was being told It's because I'm psychotic, and it's not just because I have nothing to say.
Steal my dreams and sell them back to me.....
2005-03-22, 12:29 PM #25
CNN just posted a picture of the kid. I can't believe he killed his grandparents before leaving. That really is sickening.
2005-03-22, 12:31 PM #26
Well thank god i planning on moving to North Carolina and not minnesota
nope.
2005-03-22, 1:17 PM #27
Quote:
Originally posted by Boco
Well thank god i planning on moving to North Carolina and not minnesota


Aren't you a britassian?

And that's no goth, emo, video game kiddy. How could he have killed someone! He doesn't fit the stereotype!
D E A T H
2005-03-22, 2:38 PM #28
Quote:
Originally posted by Dj Yoshi
There's actually already a thread about this.

But yeah, it does suck. I just wonder what drives people to do these things.

psst, you posted a link to this very thread, reflective property?
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
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2005-03-22, 2:47 PM #29
It sounds horrible, but I'm glad the kid shot himself. If only he just did that in the first place. It's a horrible and sad thing. All those kids were 14, 15, 16...Plus his grandparents. My god.
Think while it's still legal.
2005-03-22, 2:51 PM #30
Quote:
Originally posted by Genki
psst, you posted a link to this very thread, reflective property?


psst, they got merged.
D E A T H
2005-03-22, 2:52 PM #31
Because shootings in minnesota means minnesota is a cest pool for school shootings. But videogames and goths aren't to blame at ALL.

STFU.
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2005-03-22, 2:52 PM #32
He doesn't LOOK like the kind of person who'd do that, that's what's disturbing.
Sneaky sneaks. I'm actually a werewolf. Woof.
2005-03-22, 3:05 PM #33
Quote:
Originally posted by Boco
Well thank god i planning on moving to North Carolina and not minnesota


It could just as easily happen in North Carolina or anywhere else...
"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a person is, the more likely it is for that person to have extreme prejudices." -Clint Eastwood
2005-03-22, 3:09 PM #34
Quote:
Originally posted by Dj Yoshi
psst, they got merged.
good thing i made the thread first then
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2005-03-22, 3:15 PM #35
Quote:
Originally posted by Oxyonagon
He doesn't LOOK like the kind of person who'd do that, that's what's disturbing.


Psst. Book. Cover.

:(
2005-03-23, 8:54 AM #36
Quote:
Originally posted by Dj Yoshi
Aren't you a britassian?


yeah, planning on moving for a gap year, or if i can afford the fees, uni
nope.

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