A student went on a shooting spree Monday afternoon in a Northern Minnesota high school, allegedly killing nine people and wounding as many as 15 others before turning the gun on himself, officials said.
The shootings, the nation’s worst since the 1999 Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colo., occurred at the Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minn., approximately 240 miles north of Minneapolis.
A preliminary investigation indicated the suspect apparently first shot his grandparents, then went to the school where he allegedly shot a security guard, exchanged fire with police officers and opened fire on other students before killing himself.
The suspect is identified as 17-year-old Jeffrey Weise, a junior at the school. The Associated Press reported Weise may have posted messages last year on a neo-Nazi Web site calling himself “Angel of Death” and expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler. (Source)
I don’t have anything particularly enlightening or comforting to say at the moment. If you do, I’ll link.
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Update: I’m watching Connected Coast to Coast, and they’re on the “hate on the Internet” meme. The implication is that because this young psychotic killer frequented neo-Nazi web sites, he was driven to kill. These “haters” incited the kid to shoot up his grandfather, his school and himself. Great. They say these sites seek out disturbed youth like the dead killer while providing no evidence. Not even the URL of the kind of site they’re talking about.
You know what “hate speech” is? Whatever the other guy says that you don’t like.
I hate that.
