At the time of the shooting, by some accounts, Jeff Weise was living with his paternal grandfather, Daryl Lussier Sr., a sergeant with the Red Lake Police Department, run by the Ojibwe (aka Chippewa) tribal government at the Red Lake Indian Reservation.

He took Lussier's two police-issue weapons, a .40 caliber Glock 22 pistol and a 12 gauge Remington 870 pump-action shotgun, a gun belt and a bulletproof vest.

[5] Weise then fatally shot Sigana, his grandfather's girlfriend, two times in the head as she carried laundry up the stairs.

[7] As he entered the school through the main entrance, he encountered two unarmed security guards manning a metal detector.

[8][9] Weise proceeded into the main corridor of the school, shooting English teacher Neva Rogers who was pushing a computer cart and conversing with students in the hallway.

[11] The shooter then turned and asked other students the same question; those who replied in the affirmative or hesitated to answer were wounded or killed.

May's diversion allowed students to flee the classroom to safety, but Weise shot him two times in the neck and once in the jaw, leaving him seriously injured.

[9][13] This is believed to have been a reference to a widely publicized, but alleged exchange during the 1999 Columbine High School massacre between perpetrator Eric Harris and victim Rachel Scott, as initially reported by Richard Castaldo.

[13] After being hit three times in the lower back, right leg, and right arm by police gunfire, Weise retreated to the classroom where he had shot and killed the teacher and three students, yelling "I have hostages!

[18] Weise had grown up with a difficult and disrupted family life; his parents were a young unmarried couple who separated before he was born.

[25] In 1997, when Weise was eight years old, his father died by suicide aged 32, by shooting himself with a shotgun after a days-long standoff with Red Lake tribal police.

[22] His social studies teacher Wanda Baxter recalled, "[Weise] was a good listener like any other ordinary student.

One animation, entitled "Target Practice", features a character who murders three people with a rifle, blows up a police car with a grenade, and kills a Klansman.

[34] The Guardian and CBS News alleged that Weise had an account called Todesengel (German: 'angel of death') on nazi.org, a neo-Nazi website operated by the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.

On a talkboard hosted by nazi.org, there were many entries signed by someone going by the name Jeff Weise, who stated that he was a Native American from Red Lake.

These entries criticized interracial marriage on the reservation and shamed Native American teens for listening to rap music, claiming it makes them violent.

[32] Later Weise was found to have posted numerous online comments expressing his frustration with living in Red Lake, and feelings that his life was beyond his control.

He described the reservation "as a place where people 'choose alcohol over friendship', where women neglect 'their own flesh and blood' for relationships with men, where he could not escape 'the grave I'm continually digging for myself'".

I split the flesh on my wrist with a box opener, painting the floor of my bedroom with blood I shouldn't have spilt.

It was my dicision [sic] to seek medical treatment, as on the other hand I could have chose to sit there until enough blood drained from my downward lascerations on my wrists to die.After he attempted suicide again the following month in June 2004, his aunts arranged with the Red Lake Medical Center for him to be hospitalized at a facility away from the reservation.

[1] The extended Lussier family had been involved for years in trying to help him, and arranged for Weise to have care and psychiatric treatment for depression.

[1] Dr. Leslie Lundt, a psychiatrist, has commented that a parent's suicide put individuals at high risk for psychological problems, as does alcohol abuse in the family.

[5] Buck Jourdain, Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, said that the shootings were "one of the darkest and most painful occurrences in the history of our tribe.

[41] He was charged based on several email messages which he exchanged with Weise related to plans for the Red Lake High School shooting.

The government dropped the conspiracy charge; however, Jourdain pleaded guilty to transmitting threatening messages through the Internet.

Derrick Brun, the murdered security guard, was recognized for his bravery, with special recognition by President George W.

In October 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had issued a warning about its use because of its association with more thoughts and acts of suicide and violence.

[43] After the murders and Weise's suicide, in April 2005, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians distributed 15 grants to families of victims and people affected by the shootings from a memorial fund that received $200,000 in donations from across the country.

Although some people objected, a tribal spokesman noted his family was not eligible for state compensation and said that they carried "a double burden.

The school district agreed to pay $1,000,000 total to 21 of the victims' families, the maximum amount allowed by Minnesota law.