Tag: Louis Jourdain

Red Lake shooting suspect’s trial will begin Nov. 14:

This is basically an article about how Louis Jourdain’s trial will start on November 14th. He was arrested in conjunction with the Red Lake High School shootings, where Jeff Weise killed 7 people at the school after killing his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend. As usual, not too many details are being released because Jourdain is being tried as a juvenile, but popular opinion says he’s being tried for conspiracy to commit murder.

Prosecutors are alleging that Jourdain and Weise had worked on a plan for more than a year via e-mail and instant messages to kill Weise’s grandfather, steal his weapons and kill people at the school.

Since Jourdain was at the school at the time of the shooting, I don’t know if this makes him an accomplice or if he had prior knowledge that the attack was coming. That’s just my opinion based on what the media is reporting. The truth may be entirely different, and we may never know.

Jourdain to be tried as juvenile:

Louis Jourdain was the 16-year-old kid who was arrested in connection with the Red Lake school shooting. The charge was never announced, since he is a juvenile.

Now according to family members of Jourdain, he is going to be tried as a juvenile. So we may never know what Louis Jourdain is being accused of.

Feds Want To Try Jourdain As An Adult:

For those of you who may not remember, Louis Jourdain was arrested in connection with the Red Lake shootings back in March. He is also the son of Red Lake Tribal Chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr.

He is alleged to have been some kind of an accomplice to Jeff Weise.

Not a lot of information has been released about his case because he is a juvenile.

Since the federal government has jurisdiction over the Red Lake Reservation, he would be tried in federal court and the feds want to try him as an adult. If he were to be convicted as a juvenile, he’d be free at the age of 21. He is 17 now. If he were to be convicted as an adult, he would be facing life in prison. A hearing to determine his status is scheduled to take place this week.

UPDATE: I found an interesting bit of information from this article from the Pioneer Press…

Sources with knowledge of the federal investigation have said that Weise and Jourdain wrote e-mails back and forth in which they planned the shooting spree.

Those sources have also said there were to be additional targets besides the school.

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Tribe leader’s son faces 2 federal charges in reservation shootings:

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Louis Jourdain, son of Red Lake tribal leader Floyd Jourdain Jr., is being charged with two federal charges in connection with the Red Lake shootings. However, since Louis Jourdain is a juvenile, the nature of the charges have not been released.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press is trying to get the records made public…

After reporters were excluded from initial court hearings for the youth in Duluth, Minn., attorneys for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and its sister paper, the Duluth News Tribune, filed motions to open the court proceedings and unseal the records.

The newspapers argued that while juvenile cases are normally private, the newsworthiness of this case made it unique. “It’s not a run-of-the-mill juvenile case,” said Joseph J. Roby Jr., the Duluth attorney who represented the papers.

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.

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.