Schoolboy mass murderer had accomplices, says FBI
April 4, 2005
As many as 20 teenagers may have known beforehand about plans for a shooting rampage that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on a remote Indian reservation in Minnesota two weeks ago, tribal and federal officials have said.
Captain Dewayne Dow, of the tribal police, told parents, teachers and staff at a school board meeting on Friday that the authorities believed as many as 20 students were involved.
One law enforcement official said the FBI believed that as many as four students, including the gunman, Jeff Weise, and Louis Jourdain, a classmate who was arrested last week, were directly involved in planning an attack on Red Lake High School. More than a dozen others may have heard about the plot.
"There may have been as many as four of these kids who were active participants in the plot," said the FBI official, who declined to be identified.
"The question is, how many other kids had some knowledge of this, or had heard about it somehow? We think there were quite a few."
FBI agents had seized between 30 and 40 computers from the school's computer laboratory for forensic analysis, FBI and school officials said.
Investigators hope to learn more from the computers, since much of the alleged discussion and planning among Weise and his friends occurred through emails and instant messages, the law enforcement official said.
The latest developments capped a week in which daily funerals or wakes kept many members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa in a state of disbelief. As the week passed, the FBI's continuing investigation was compounding residents' distrust of outside authorities.
"It still feels like it's a bad dream," said Donald May, a member of the tribal council. "We're in shock."
The last of those killed in the rampage was buried on Saturday. "I went to a lot of these funerals these past few days, and I'm just numb," said Allen Pemberton, another tribal council member.
Mike Fairbanks, a law enforcement veteran and member of the Red Lake community, said: "It used to be when you saw someone who's a non-Indian coming on the reservation, there's only one reason - he's either an FBI agent or a Mormon."
Some of the distrust was cropping up between tribal members. "I've been getting strange looks," said Cartera Hart, 16. She hangs out in a group of about a dozen students who were friends with Weise and Jourdain, the tribal chairman's son.
The Washington Post
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Schoolboy-mass-murderer-had-accomplices-says-FBI/2005/04/03/1112489349382.html
April 4, 2005
As many as 20 teenagers may have known beforehand about plans for a shooting rampage that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on a remote Indian reservation in Minnesota two weeks ago, tribal and federal officials have said.
Captain Dewayne Dow, of the tribal police, told parents, teachers and staff at a school board meeting on Friday that the authorities believed as many as 20 students were involved.
One law enforcement official said the FBI believed that as many as four students, including the gunman, Jeff Weise, and Louis Jourdain, a classmate who was arrested last week, were directly involved in planning an attack on Red Lake High School. More than a dozen others may have heard about the plot.
"There may have been as many as four of these kids who were active participants in the plot," said the FBI official, who declined to be identified.
"The question is, how many other kids had some knowledge of this, or had heard about it somehow? We think there were quite a few."
FBI agents had seized between 30 and 40 computers from the school's computer laboratory for forensic analysis, FBI and school officials said.
Investigators hope to learn more from the computers, since much of the alleged discussion and planning among Weise and his friends occurred through emails and instant messages, the law enforcement official said.
The latest developments capped a week in which daily funerals or wakes kept many members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa in a state of disbelief. As the week passed, the FBI's continuing investigation was compounding residents' distrust of outside authorities.
"It still feels like it's a bad dream," said Donald May, a member of the tribal council. "We're in shock."
The last of those killed in the rampage was buried on Saturday. "I went to a lot of these funerals these past few days, and I'm just numb," said Allen Pemberton, another tribal council member.
Mike Fairbanks, a law enforcement veteran and member of the Red Lake community, said: "It used to be when you saw someone who's a non-Indian coming on the reservation, there's only one reason - he's either an FBI agent or a Mormon."
Some of the distrust was cropping up between tribal members. "I've been getting strange looks," said Cartera Hart, 16. She hangs out in a group of about a dozen students who were friends with Weise and Jourdain, the tribal chairman's son.
The Washington Post
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Schoolboy-mass-murderer-had-accomplices-says-FBI/2005/04/03/1112489349382.html
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