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  • More on the Louis Jourdain Arrest

    More on the Louis Jourdain Arrest

    Teen Held In Red Lake Rampage:

    According to the article, federal investigators have seized computer records from Louis Jourdain that allegedly show he had advance knowledge of the attack…

    But The Washington Post, citing two unidentified law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, reported Tuesday that the teenager was suspected of helping Weise plan the assault and had expected to take part.

    In addition to Louis Jourdain, another red lake student and close friend of Weiss was questioned extensively over the weekend, as were two to three other young people authorities also consider may have been involved, Murphy reports.

    U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger told The Minneapolis Star Tribune that he couldn’t “confirm or deny” that the shootings by Weise were part of a larger attack planned on the high school. He added that the investigation is ongoing in Red Lake and the Twin Cities.

    God help this kid if he had prior knowledge of the attack and chose not to do anything about it.

  • Red Lake Memorial Site

    Red Lake Memorial Site

    JeffWeise.com is being billed as a memorial to the victims lost at Red Lake High School and states that they try to provide a non-sided viewpoint of what happened at Red Lake High School.

  • Arrest Made in Red Lake Shooting

    Arrest Made in Red Lake Shooting

    Son of Tribal Leader Arrested:

    The son of tribal chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr., Louis Jourdain, was arrested Sunday in connection with an investigation into a potentially wider plot in connection with the Red Lake High School shootings.

    From the article…

    NBC’s Justice Department reporter Pete Williams was told that investigators are looking into whether there was a conspiracy, involving more than just Jeff Weise himself. There are some suggestions; the officials say that the original plan may have called for a bigger attack on the school involving more than just a single student.

    More arrests may be forthcoming.

  • An open letter to Jeff Weise

    An open letter to Jeff Weise

    It starts out…

    Dear Jeff Weise,

    Fuck you.

    …and it just gets better from there.

    Link

  • Lack of Coverage II

    Lack of Coverage II

    Here are two more articles debating the reasons behind the lack of news coverage on the Red Lake shootings.

    Measuring the media coverage against Columbine (Log in Info)

    Truly shocking news

  • President offers condolences

    President offers condolences

    Bush Offers Condolences for Monday’s School Shooting:

    President Bush offered his condolences to the victims of the Red Lake shooting today…

    WACO, Texas — President George W. Bush (search) on Friday expressed condolences to the leader of the Minnesota Indian reservation where 10 people died Monday in the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history.

    Bush talked to Floyd Jourdain Jr., chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (search), for five minutes Friday morning, offering his sympathy for the victims of a teen-ager’s shooting rampage and for the entire Red Lake community. He pledged to provide federal assistance, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

    Of course, nothing the President does is without controversy…

    Some American Indians have complained that Bush did not respond publicly to the shooting for four days. Just hours after the shootings at Colorado’s Columbine High School that left 15 dead, then-President Bill Clinton publicly expressed his condolences.

    I’m a little pissed about it myself, but the American Indians shouldn’t take it personally. It doesn’t have anything to do with the American Indian people, but because the federal government has their priorities screwed up right now. They’re more worried about Terry Schiavo than nine dead victims. It’s disheartening at best, pathetic at its worst.

  • Dispelling A Myth

    Dispelling A Myth

    Victim recalls shooter’s ‘mean’ look before rampage:

    I’ve always heard from the mutants say that if more people tried to be friends with people like Harris and Klebold and now Jeff Weise that they wouldn’t have committed their crimes. I’ve always disputed that belief. Listen to the story of Cody Thunder. He tried to befriend Jeff Weise…

    Before that day, Thunder said he had talked to Weise several times, even attempting to befriend him.

    “He seemed like a loner, and I just felt like it would be good to go talk to him,” Thunder said.

    But Weise “talked about nothing but guns and shooting people,” he said, and the attempt to reach out didn’t result in friendship.

    Cody was rewarded with his attempt of friendship by being shot in the hip by Weise. Doctors have decided to leave a bullet lodged in his hip.

    To all the mutants who think that the victims deserved what they got, please tell me what Cody Thunder did to deserve being shot.

  • Heroes

    Heroes

    Slain Minn. School Guard Described as Hero:

    A lot has been said today about security guard Derrick Brun. He confronted Jeff Weise unarmed, which allowed novice security guard LeeAnn Grant to get to safety along with some other students before Weise shot and killed Brun…

    “I know he bought me time by confronting Jeff, for me to even get that much farther away with the students,” Grant told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “Derrick’s my hero. … He didn’t even look scared. He didn’t look worried. He knew what he was going to do.”

    “He looked right at me. I made eye contact with him,” Grant said. The boy quickly found the open door.

    “He walked in and fired another shot and I was telling Derrick, ‘Come on, let’s go. Let’s go, Derrick. Run. We need to save these kids, we need to do something.’ And I radioed in ‘There’s a guy coming in the school and he’s shooting and he has a gun.’”

    “Derrick just sat there at his desk. … He just kept staring at Jeff. I kept hollering for him to come with me. He wouldn’t come. He just stayed there.”

    The noise drew students toward the front doors. Some thought maybe there was a fight, and they wanted to see, Grant said.

    “I start yelling at them, ‘Run! There’s a guy with a gun here! Just run!’ And then I took off to try to protect them,” she said.

    “I turned back a little bit, and you could see Derrick kind of getting up, going right toward Jeff,” she said. “And then I heard two shots again.”

    How many of us could say they would have done the same thing?

    But also another name needs to be mentioned, Jeffrey May.

    According to his family, May tried protecting two girls by stabbing Weise in the side with a pencil. What did he get for his troubles?…

    Weise shot him in the right cheek and the bullet lodged in his neck. The 6-foot-4, 300-pound teen suffered a stroke and can’t move his left side, but he has been able to write notes to his family.

    Doctors don’t know if May will recover, but family members said he was breathing on his own, which they called a good sign.

    So Jeffrey May may be disabled for life and Derrick Brun is dead, all because of the misplaced hate of a coward.

  • More Signs

    More Signs

    School Shooter Left Trail Of Clues On The Internet:

    According to this article from MTV.com, Jeff Weise left even more clues on the internet…

    In December 2003, on a site called the Writer’s Coven, Weise posted a story about a shooting spree that featured a character dressed in black and a teacher with a Hitler-like mustache, according to The New York Times. Like Monday’s shootings, in which Weise shot and killed an unarmed guard at the school (see “FBI: Minnesota Shooter Acted Alone, Chose Victims At Random”), one of the fictional victims was a school security guard, whose throat had been “ripped out, replaced by a bloody mass of torn tissue.” He also wrote that, “in the distance, somewhere else in the school, the sound of a blood-curdling scream echoed through the hallways.

    They also bring up a very valid point that even though Jeff Weise was on the internet, most of the people on his reservation could not afford to be on the internet. Which in turn made it more difficult to prevent this tragedy.

    The Smoking Gun has a screenshot of his MSN Profile.

    But getting back to the surprisingly informative MTV article, they had this blurb printed at the bottom of the article…

    If you ever see a student carrying a weapon or hear talk of plans for violence, you can anonymously call (866) SPEAK-UP toll free and the tip will be forwarded to the proper local authorities.

    This number should be put on all articles relating to school violence. As a matter of fact, it will be a permanent fixture on my site sometime tonight.

  • Mutant Profile

    Mutant Profile

    Allegedly, this is another one of Jeff Weise’s Yahoo profiles.