Ten dead on Minnesota Indian reservation after school shooting
{{date|March 22, 2005}}
[[Image:Map of USA highlighting Minnesota.png|180px|right|The school is located in a remote area of Minnesota]]
A 17-year-old [[w:Minnesota|Minnesota]] student is believed to have shot his grandfather and grandmother, drove his grandfather's squad car to the high school, and shot a security guard, a teacher and five other classmates, later committing suicide. This happened at 3pm local time on Monday (2100 UTC), and as many as 14 others were injured before the rampage subsided.

One witness said of the gunman, he was "grinning and waving".

"I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that's when I hid," Sondra Hegstrom told ''The Pioneer of Bemidji''. "You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?"

Today's incident marks the highest death toll yet in US school shootings since the [[w:Columbine High School massacre|Columbine High School massacre]] in April 1999. There were 15 people shot in [[w:Jefferson County, Colorado|Jefferson County]], near [[w:Littleton, Colorado|Littleton, Colorado]], in the Columbine shooting.

Police are still investigating any possible motive.

"It will probably take us throughout the night to really put the whole picture together," said [[w:FBI|FBI]] spokesman Paul McCabe in a briefing to the press. "We do have evidence that we believe that the shooter is dead," he continued, "we believe he was acting alone."

Reporters were asked to leave the area, located on The Red Lake reservation, by tribal authorities.

"The events that took place today involving the shootings at the Red Lake High School make this one of the darkest and most painful occurrences in the history of our tribe," said Floyd Jourdain Jr., Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. The Indian band is made up of about 5,100 people, living on 825,000 acres of land in the northern part of the state.

Minnesota's last school shooting was in September 2003, when two students were fatally shot at Rocori High School. That incident had statewide implications, causing a hearing on expansion of tribal gaming in Minnesota to be canceled for the day.

"We ask Minnesotans to help comfort the families and friends of the victims who are suffering unimaginable pain by extending prayers and expressions of support," said a statement from Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

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==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://www.rlnn.com/ArtMar05/BucksStatement.html
|title=Attention Red Lake Nation members
|author=Floyd Jourdain Jr.
|pub=Red Lake Net News
|date=March 22, 2005 }}

*{{source|url=http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=603561
|title=Teen's Rampage Leaves 10 Dead in Minn.
|author=Joshua Freed, [[Associated Press|AP]]
|pub=ABC News (US)
|date=March 22, 2005 }}

*{{source|url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/21/school.shooting/index.html
|title=Officials: Student's rampage leaves 10 dead
|author=
|pub=CNN
|date=March 22, 2005 }}

*{{source|url=http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/11196469.htm
|title=Minnesota 15-year-old kills 9 others, himself
|author=Bill Gardner
|pub=The Kansas City Star
|date=March 21, 2005 }}

*{{source|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/national/22shoot.html
|title=Shooting Rampage by Student Leaves 10 Dead on Reservation
|author=Jodi Wilgoren
|pub=The New York Times
|date=March 21, 2005 }}

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[[de:Erneuter Amoklauf an einer US-amerikanischen Schule]]
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[[sv:2005/03/22: Flera döda vid skottdrama på amerikansk skola]]
The school is located in a remote area of Minnesota
A 17-year-old Minnesota student is believed to have shot his grandfather and grandmother, drove his grandfather's squad car to the high school, and shot a security guard, a teacher and five other classmates, later committing suicide. This happened at 3pm local time on Monday (2100 UTC), and as many as 14 others were injured before the rampage subsided.

One witness said of the gunman, he was "grinning and waving".

"I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that's when I hid," Sondra Hegstrom told The Pioneer of Bemidji. "You could hear a girl saying, 'No, Jeff, quit, quit. Leave me alone. What are you doing?"

Today's incident marks the highest death toll yet in US school shootings since the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999. There were 15 people shot in Jefferson County, near Littleton, Colorado, in the Columbine shooting.

Police are still investigating any possible motive.

"It will probably take us throughout the night to really put the whole picture together," said FBI spokesman Paul McCabe in a briefing to the press. "We do have evidence that we believe that the shooter is dead," he continued, "we believe he was acting alone."

Reporters were asked to leave the area, located on The Red Lake reservation, by tribal authorities.

"The events that took place today involving the shootings at the Red Lake High School make this one of the darkest and most painful occurrences in the history of our tribe," said Floyd Jourdain Jr., Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians. The Indian band is made up of about 5,100 people, living on 825,000 acres of land in the northern part of the state.

Minnesota's last school shooting was in September 2003, when two students were fatally shot at Rocori High School. That incident had statewide implications, causing a hearing on expansion of tribal gaming in Minnesota to be canceled for the day.

"We ask Minnesotans to help comfort the families and friends of the victims who are suffering unimaginable pain by extending prayers and expressions of support," said a statement from Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

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de:Erneuter Amoklauf an einer US-amerikanischen Schule
pl:Strzelanina w szkole w Red Lake, USA
sv:2005/03/22: Flera döda vid skottdrama på amerikansk skola
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