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Original Source: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
CAMPBELL BROWN, NBC ANCHOR (voice-over): School rampage. A minute-by minute account of a deadly day in Minnesota. Also, the teenager and the warning signs that may have been missed.
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ANNOUNCER: From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS. Substituting tonight, Campbell Brown.
BROWN (on camera): Good evening. An attack that has brought back horrific memories of the Columbine school massacre. Tonight, it has a community on an Indian reservation in Minnesota asking why and how this could happen again. Ten people are dead, including the teenage boy who opened fire on his classmates and teachers before turning the gun on himself.
We begin with NBC`s Kevin Tibbles in Red Lake, Minnesota.
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KEVIN TIBBLES, NBC CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As tribal elders from the Red Lake Chippewa nation gathered for a somber vigil outside a local hospital where some of yesterday`s victims died and others are recovering.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Keep them close to your heart.
TIBBLES: Authorities investigating the shootings began piecing it all together. They say 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise, shown here at age eight, began his violent rampage at the home he shared with his grandfather, Daryl Lussier, a sergeant on the Red Lake police force.
MICHAEL TABMAN, FBI SPECIAL AGENT: Armed with, we believe, a .22 caliber weapon, Mr. Weise shot and killed Mr. Lussier and his companion, Michelle Sigana.
TIBBLES: Investigators say he then took his grandfather`s bulletproof vest, gun belt and weapons, and makes off in a police vehicle and drives the mile and a half to the school. Sometime after 2:00 p.m., Weise speeds towards the Red Lake high school, halts at the front door, and shoots the school`s 28-year-old unarmed security guard, Derrick Brun, to death.
As Weise enters the school, witnesses say he smiles and waves, walking down the locker-lined hallway shooting at random. He stops outside a classroom, steps inside, levels his weapons and fires. He kills 52-year- old Neva Rogers a veteran teacher, and three students, injuring several more.
ALICIA NEADEAU, STUDENT: It was scary. It was the most scary thing that ever happened to me before. I just heard the gunshots and they just kept getting closer and closer.
TIBBLES: 2:55 p.m., 911 operators alert police two callers say there`s a gunman in the school.
(on camera): At the height of the rampage, one student, Ashley Morrison was barricaded in a classroom and the gunman was banging on the door. She called her mother, who could hear gunshots in the background.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I could hear my friend screaming and she was just screaming and he like, he shot her and there was no more screaming. And we just know she died.
TIBBLES (voice-over): 2:57, just two minutes later, police arrive at the school. Weise returns to the hallway, still shooting.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Weise did fire upon them and one of the officers managed to return fire.
TIBBLES: The officers are uninjured. 3:05, Weise ran back into the same classroom and, according to police, shoots himself to death. 3:15, the hospital in nearby Bemidji, Minnesota, is alerted and begins preparing for casualties....
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