On March 21, 2005 a shooting took place at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. The perpetrator of the shooting was sixteen year old Jeffery Weise. Weise committed the shooting at his home and continued it at the high school he had attended months earlier. In total ten people were killed and five more were wounded. The shooting at the school took place over the course over nine minutes.
At the time of the shooting Weise was living with his paternal grandfather, a sergeant with the Red Lake Police Department. The household also included his grandfather’s younger girlfriend, and Weise’s two paternal aunts who had helped him get treatment for his behavioral issues and depression. The circumstances that put Weise in his grandfather’s home/care were challenging – as they would be for anyone. Weise’s mother suffered severe brain damage in a car accident in 1999 and had to receive care in a nursing home. Because his father had committed suicide in 1997 and Weise was still a young child, he was forced to move from Minneapolis to the reservation to live with his grandfather. His aunts care for him and became his primary caregivers after his grandmother passed in 2003. The...
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The remainder of this article is part of the book "Active Killers and the Crimes They Perpetrated," available in print or ebook via Amazon.
Joshua Borelli
Joshua Borelli has been studying active shooter and mass attack events over the course of the past several years, commensurate with receiving training on response and recovery to natural disasters and civil disturbances. Joshua started to outline this series of articles in an attempt to identify commonalities and logistical needs patterns for response.
