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 school shooting occurred at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. That afternoon at 2:00 p.m., 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe tribal police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at their lakeside home. After taking his grandfather's police weapons and bulletproof vest, Weise drove his grandfather's police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he had been a student some months before.
Weise shot and killed seven people at the school and wounded at least 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. At the time it was the deadliest school shooting in the United States since the Columbine High School massacre but was eventually surpassed by the Virginia Tech Shooting in 2007.
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