August 8, 1988 - Jeff Weise
The Red Lake shootings of 2005 remain among the most destructive acts of school violence in American history, beginning at home and ending in a school hallway after nine people were killed. Weise was sixteen at the time, and his victims included a teacher, a security guard, five students, and members of his own family. The attack held the grim distinction of being the deadliest school shooting in the United States since Columbine until it was surpassed two years later.
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On March 21, 2005, a double homicide followed by a mass shooting occurred at two locations in the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. That afternoon, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe Red Lake police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at home. After taking his grandfather's police weapons and bulletproof vest, Weise drove his grandfather's police car to Red Lake Senior High School where he was enrolled.
Weise shot and killed seven people at the school and wounded nine others. The dead included an unarmed security guard at the entrance of the school, a teacher, and five students. After the police arrived, Weise exchanged gunfire with them. After being wounded, he committed suicide inside of a classroom. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in Minnesota.
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