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Tag: Jeff Weise

  • 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.

  • Another Sign?

    Another Sign?

    Allegedly, Jeff Weise was a flash animation artist as well and may have had a profile at Newgrounds. If it is him, he made two animations. The first one is called Clown but the second more prophetic one is called Target Practice if, in fact, this was actually him.

  • Hard Life but No Excuse

    Hard Life but No Excuse

    Jeff Weise: A mystery in a life full of hardship:

    (Log in Info) More details of Jeff Weise’s life have been divulged…

    Gurneau attributes some of Weise’s troubles to his beleaguered life. His father, Daryl Lussier Jr., known to relatives as “Baby Dash,” committed suicide in July 1997 following a police standoff that lasted for more than a day, Gurneau said. Not even Lussier’s father, Red Lake officer Daryl Lussier, could negotiate a peaceful ending. The senior Lussier was one of Weise’s first victims Monday.

    Years later, Joanne Weise suffered brain damage in a car accident after she and a friend had been drinking, Gurneau said.

    It explains a lot but doesn’t excuse anything. I couldn’t care less if he had red-hot pokers shoved up his ass on a repeated basis. It doesn’t matter how hard your life was, it doesn’t give you an excuse to kill 9 innocent people.

    But the “blame society” mindset that some people have will allow them to rationalize the situation by blaming jocks, or bullies, or the school when ultimately we are all responsible for our own actions. Unfortunately, the number of people who see it that way is dwindling.

  • Nazis: No Apologies

    Nazis: No Apologies

    Then again, when do they ever?

    Minn. shooter was drawn to Nazism:

    According to this article from the Boston Globe, the Nazi website that Jeff Weise frequented has issued a statement showing no remorse over the Red Lake shooting whatsoever…

    As the 5,162 residents of Red Lake Reservation struggled to make sense of the violence, the organizers of a neo-Nazi website that Weise frequented expressed no remorse for the killings. The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party, which operates the site where Weise had posted 34 messages, described Weise as ”clearly highly intelligent and contemplative, especially for one so young.”

    The site quoted Weise as being disillusioned with a ”raceless” society. Weise, the website’s administrators said, had written: ”The Natives you’ve known to be sympathetic to the cause are probably ones who’ve experienced firsthand what kinds of problems cultural and race-mixing can cause. As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing, there are barely any full-blooded Natives left.”

    The neo-Nazi organization, reacting to the shootings on its website, said it ”refused to wring hands over a ‘tragedy.’ ” Instead, the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party said, ”such events are to be expected when thinking people are crammed into an unthinking, irrational modern society.” The organization advocates racial separation.

    Then again, what would you expect from a group that killed millions in the name of “racial purity”? Ladies and gentlemen, straight from Hitler’s ass, I give you the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.

  • Mutant See. Mutant Do.

    Mutant See. Mutant Do.

    Echoes Of Columbine:

    This is what leads me to believe that Jeff Weise was a Harris and Klebold worshiping mutant…

    Gunmen at both schools had been placed in disciplinary programs. They smiled as they shot their classmates. Witnesses at both schools recounted the gunmen asking victims if they believed in God, and shooting them after they said yes.

    The Minnesota shooter, Jeff Weise, was a troubled adolescent, outsider at school, and extrovert in cyberspace, with a fascination for Adolf Hitler and a penchant for darkness — from his clothes to his imagination.

    The media has it wrong. It’s not coincidence, it’s emulation. Jeff Weise asked one of his victims if he believed in God before shooting him. Allegedly, Eric Harris asked Cassie Bernall if she believed in God before shooting her, even though that claim is in dispute. Why else would Jeff Weise ask one of his victims that?

    Well, now he can imitate his heroes in hell.

  • Victims’ Names and Victims’ Fund

    Victims’ Names and Victims’ Fund

    Red Lake Investigation Continues:

    The victims’ names have been released…

    The five students were identified by the FBI as Thurlene Stillday, 15; Chase Lussier, 15; Chanelle Rosebear, 15; Alicia Spike, 15; and Dwayne Lewis, 15.

    The FBI identified the remaining victims as Daryl Lussier, 58, the suspect’s grandfather; Michelle Sigana, 32, Lussier’s companion; Neva Winnecoup Rogers, 52, a teacher; and Derrick Brun, 28, a security officer.

    Separate sources have identified six injured students: Jeffrey May, 15; Steven Cobenais, 15; Jeffrey Green; Cody Thunder, 15; Lance Crowe, 15; and Ryan Auginach.

    A victims’ fund has also been established…

    Friends and family established a fund for the victims and their families. Donations can be made at any Wells Fargo Bank to The Red Lake Band of Chippewa Memorial Fund.

    Again, my thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by this tragedy.

  • Lack of coverage

    Lack of coverage

    Father of Columbine Victim: America ‘Callous’ to School Shootings:

    Darrell Scott, the father of Columbine victim Rachel Scott, has said that there hasn’t been enough coverage of the Red Lake shooting in the mainstream media…

    “One of the things that concerns me … is that I noticed there wasn’t [much] exposure in the media to what had happened [in Red Lake],” Scott observes. “When Columbine’s tragedy happened, there was massive coverage for months, and [now with] the second-largest shooting in American history in schools, it was like the third and fourth story in different places that I looked.”

    Scott says the anemic media coverage of this most recent incident indicates that Americans have become “callous” toward such things. He says what he told congressional leaders in 1999 still rings true.

    You know what kids? He’s right. I didn’t find out about the shooting until 4 hours after it happened, and someone had to e-mail me about it. And when I did turn on the major news channels, it was barely a blip on their coverage. All the news channels were talking about was Terri Schiavo. Nine people are killed by this scumbag and all the news can talk about is a woman who, by all rights, is still alive.

    Now, this part may cost me some readers and friends, but I don’t care. It’s not just the mainstream media, either, it’s also the “blogosphere”. Out of all the blogs that I frequent, only two made any mention of the Red Lake shooting. No mentions of the shooting, no thoughts or prayers for the families of the victims. The worst school massacre since Columbine, and all you all can talk about is Terri Schiavo. Which leads me to believe one of two things. You either are deferring to me as the authority on this subject, which I doubt since I am far from an authority, or you just don’t care. Have we become so jaded since Columbine?

  • The signs were there

    The signs were there

    Classmates say there may have been warning signs that school shooter was troubled :

    Parson Graves says Jeff Weise’s (weesez) artwork might have been a red flag. Graves says one of Weise’s pictures, which was hanging in class, was of a skeleton wearing a helmet with a swastika on it. It bore the words “march to the death song ’til your boots fill with blood.”

    Weise also is said to have joked that he thought it would be cool to shoot up a high school. Classmate Ashley Morrison says nobody took Weise seriously — but now she wishes they had.

    This is why I get upset when people say that schools and police overreact to situations like this and dismiss it as “artistic expression” or “kids being kids”. I’d rather there be an overreaction than an underreaction.