» SIX DEAD IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SHOOTING
Photo by Stacey Wescott, Chicago Tribune.
At least 5 students are dead after a gunman dressed in all-black opened fire in a classroom Thursday at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, before turning the gun on himself.
Four women and one man were killed and 16 other students were injured in the attack. According to witnesses, the gunman burst into the class in Cole Hall, located near the center of the campus, and opened fire. According to administrators, around 160 students are registered for the class.
Last December, the Chicago Tribune reported that threats had been found at NIU “on a bathroom wall that included a racial slur and references to the Virginia Tech shootings.” The campus was placed on a high security alert following the threats and closed for one day as police investigated.
This is the fourth school shooting in the United States within one week. Two were killed in a shooting on the campus of Lousiana Technical College last week, two shootings occurred in Memphis, Tenn. this week, and a middle school student is now brain dead after a school shooting in Oxnard, Calif.
For more information on the NIU massacre, visit CNN.com.
5 responses so far ↓
1
Josh Cox
// Feb 14, 2008 at 9:04 pm
This is awful. Stop the violence.
2 George Vreeland Hill // Feb 15, 2008 at 12:34 am
There are too many guns in society.
Get rid of the ones that are used to kill people.
Stop the NRA and their lies.
Guns kill.
I am,
George Vreeland Hill
3 RIZZ // Feb 15, 2008 at 10:04 pm
damn this is sad…. we need to re-evaluate where we\’re headed in america
4 Liz // Feb 24, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Okay, whoever did that is a total freak, and screw them. And George Vreeland Hill guns arent really bad, they’re only bad if people use them for evil!!! Whatever screw the freak who killed all those people!!!
5 Aujalee // Mar 6, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I am a student, my teacher, Mrs. Dean went to this school. All of us broke down and cried when we heard the news down here in AZ. the question ‘How could somebody be so phyco and do this kind of thing’ came up many times. The answer, and I don’t agree that it is right or anything, is that they usually have a mental disese or they are hurt themsevlves (commonly both). So they think that it is alright (which it is not at all) to hurt other people. Now all I have to say is Rest In Peace and I pray for all of the victims mentally and physically. I know this hurts but we can get through it.
With all my love,
♥Aujalee Fisher♥
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