Another Columbine in N. Minnesota:
10 dead in Red Lake shootings
Richard Meryhew, Larry Oakes and Howie Padilla, Star Tribune
March 22, 2005 REDLAKE0322
RED LAKE, MINN. -- A teenage boy armed with a shotgun and two handguns walked into Red Lake High School on Monday afternoon and opened fire, killing five students, a teacher and a security guard before turning the gun on himself, authorities and witnesses said Monday.
The boy, who had not been identified as this edition of the Star Tribune went to press, apparently shot and killed his grandfather -- a local police officer -- and his grandfather's girlfriend minutes before heading to the school, sources said Monday night.
About 12 other people at the school were wounded, said Paul McCabe, a special agent for the FBI in Minneapolis.
The killing spree was the second deadliest at a school in the United States. Only the 1999 killings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in which 15 people were killed and 23 were wounded, were deadlier.
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