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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting
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
an 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 suspect apparently killed himself
after exchanging gunfire with police.
It was the nation's worst school shooting 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 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 (news - web sites)
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.
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.
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.
The 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, Colo., 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.
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23 Mar 2005 10:28:20 AM |
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Cool Guy wrote:
Leave the humor to the pros at the Onion.
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| User: "grtflmark" |
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23 Mar 2005 04:05:27 AM |
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Cool Guy wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting
10 Dead in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
........ so this is what liberals think is funny - and you all wonder
why the country hates you.....
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| User: "Chris" |
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23 Mar 2005 04:08:55 AM |
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"grtflmark" <grtflmark@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1111550727.859199.213670@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Cool Guy wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting
10 Dead in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
....... so this is what liberals think is funny - and you all wonder
why the country hates you.....
they're sure to find this hillarious :
HBO MOVIE SHOWS RADIO 'AIR AMERICA' CHAOS
**Exclusive**
HBO is set to air a behind the scenes look at the launching of liberal radio
network AIR AMERICA.
The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a director's cut of LEFT OF THE DIAL, a
grossly entertaining docu-drama of life on the other side of the AIR AMERICA
microphone.
The doubts. The lies. The bounced checks. The heartbreak.
The viewer is taken upclose to witness the ugly business of media ambition.
The main character, Evan Cohen, founding chairman and main investor, is
depicted as a complete fraud.
The documentary shows Cohen arriving in the middle of night at AIR AMERICA
offices to sign over the company and disappear again, but not before lying
about how many ads have been sold and how much money is the bank [zero].
Dead Air.
It shows how AIR AMERICA executives lied and lied again about not bouncing
checks to their Chicago and Los Angeles affiliate owners. [The network was
quickly thrown off the stations.]
The film captures AIR AMERICA staff first learning about the Chicago and LA
nightmare by reading a DRUDGE REPORT exclusive on their computers.
It shows midday host Al Franken at a staff meeting being told there is no
money left, hilariously, just moments after ranting about George Bush's
ethics.
The HBO crew is told to shut down their cameras -- but they don't -- and the
'We're Broke!' meeting is filmed raw.
LEFT OF THE DIAL shows an angry meeting of the writing staff being told how
money was deducted from their checks to pay for health care -- but the money
was never paid to the HMO and they were never covered!
Host Janeane Garofalo looks suicidal in nearly ever scene which she appears.
"What am I going to do, just ramble on and on," panics
stand-up-comic-morning-drive-host Marc Maron, as he deals with the reality
of becoming a talkshow host.
But every drama must have a hero: Enter Randi Rhodes.
Highlight. The camera captures pm drive Rhodes in her classic PMS mood, but
this time at home, in her newly rented NYC apartment.
Wearing a leopard-spotted robe, bra-less, smoking and crying "I'm so
f**ckign lost," the relocated Floridian steals the show.
Talking to herself in the bedroom mirror, Rhodes whispers "You can do this."
She bemoans throughout how she is not being featured in any AIR AMERICA
press. "No CNN. No USATODAY. No YAHOO wire story." How she is the only one
hired at AIR AMERICA that's even been on radio before.
When she attempts to introduce herself to director Michael Moore [rushing
out of a Franken Radio interview], Rhodes quickly realizes he does not even
know who she is.
The heartbreaking scene is easily a frontrunner for this year's EMMYs.
The HBO film is set for air March 31.
Developing...
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| User: "John Baker" |
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23 Mar 2005 05:21:41 AM |
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On 22 Mar 2005 20:05:27 -0800, "grtflmark" <grtflmark@aol.com> wrote:
Cool Guy wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting
10 Dead in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
....... so this is what liberals think is funny - and you all wonder
why the country hates you.....
Where did *anybody*, other than perhaps some emotionally retarded
***** with the IQ of a houseplant, say this was funny?
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| User: "Josh Dougherty" |
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24 Mar 2005 06:29:02 AM |
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"John Baker" <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote in message
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On 22 Mar 2005 20:05:27 -0800, "grtflmark" <grtflmark@aol.com> wrote:
Cool Guy wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/school_sho
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10 Dead in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
....... so this is what liberals think is funny - and you all wonder
why the country hates you.....
Where did *anybody*, other than perhaps some emotionally retarded
***** with the IQ of a houseplant, say this was funny?
His subject line "Young American Hero Liberates Minnesota School - Search
for WMD Onging" is pretty funny. The story isn't though.
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| User: "Rex Tincher" |
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22 Mar 2005 10:55:28 PM |
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On 21 Mar 2005 23:31:10 -0800, (Cool Guy)
wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050322/ap_on_re_us/school_shooting
10 Dead in Minn. Teen Rampage, Police Say
<snip>
Children pay more attention to what adults do than to what they say:
"You can't tell the kids to stop the violence with the mothers running
around like this."
--- Mary Ann Smith, after her son was shot by a Million Mom Marcher
More details at: http://www.tincher.to/mmm.htm
--
"A Springfield woman who began lobbying against gun violence after
her son was shot to death in 2002 was arrested last week when
police allegedly found an illegal gun and drugs in her home."
--- The State Journal-Register Online - Springfield, Illinois,
1 March 2005. More details at: http://www.tincher.to/stevens.htm
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