Jeff Weise

A study in 2004 found that a high proportion of students in high school had thought of suicide.

The nearest grocery stores are 32 mi away from Red Lake in Bemidji.

The day of the shootings, Weise retrieved a Ruger MK II .22 caliber pistol from his bedroom and fatally shot his grandfather as he was sleeping; he shot him two times in the head and ten times in the chest.

According to Weise's friends, the teenager may have had the gun for as long as a year.

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.

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

Weise then drove his grandfather's squad car to Red Lake Senior High School, arriving at around 2:45 p.m. CST.

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

Weise shot and killed security guard Derrick Brun with the shotgun, while the other security guard, Leann Grant, escaped without injury, warning students and teachers to take cover.

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.

The students scattered and Rogers ran to knock on Missy Dodd's classroom door.

She was let in and initiated lockdown procedures, turning off lights, locking the door, and ushering the students under the tables.

Not long after Neva Rogers entered Missy Dodd's room, Weise shot out the glass panel next to the classroom door, reached his arm through, unlocked the door, and stepped into Dodd's study hall.

There were fifteen students and three adults in the room.

Neva Rogers began to pray, crying "God be with us!"

Provoked, Weise shot her in the head several times, killing her instantly.

The shooter then told students, "If any of you believe in God, now would be a good time to call in a favor."

Weise approached a group of students, asking, "Do you guys believe in God?"

One student, Chon'gai'la Morris replied no, and his life was spared.

The rest of the group said nothing, and as a result were shot at.

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

Jeffrey May, a 16-year-old sophomore, tried to wrestle Weise inside the classroom and stabbed him in the stomach with a pencil.

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.

Weise left Dodd's room a few minutes later to search for more targets.

Three students and one teacher lay dead in the class, five more students had been hurt.

The Red Lake shootings were a spree killing that occurred on March 21, 2005, in two places on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States.

That afternoon, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe tribal police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at their home.

After taking his grandfather's police weapons and bulletproof vest, Weise drove his grandfather's police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he had been a student some months before.

Weise shot and killed seven people at the school and wounded at least 9 others.

The dead included an unarmed security guard at the entrance of the school, a teacher, and five students.

After the police arrived, Weise exchanged gunfire with them.

After being wounded, he shot and killed himself in a classroom.

At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in the United States since the Columbine High School massacre.

It remains the deadliest mass shooting in Minnesota history.

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.

The household included his grandfather's 32-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Leigh Sigana.

The reservation of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe is in northwest Minnesota and is one of two nationally that are "closed"; only Ojibwe tribal members may live there and own land.

Its residents suffer high rates of unemployment, violence, and suicide.

Housing is poor, and many students do not finish high school.

Work opportunities are limited on the reservation, which has a population of more than 5,000.