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flstf · 03-21-2005, 05:25 PM

Apparently the high school is located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation close to the Canadian border.

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Carnage at Minnesota high school
The FBI did not say how many people had been killed and also declined to release details.

Students and a teacher at the scene, Diane Schwanz, identified a male student as the gunman. Ms. Schwanz said the shooter tried to break down a door to get into a room where some students were.

“I just got on the floor and called the cops,” Ms. Schwanz told the Bemidji Pioneer. “I was still just half-believing it.”

Red Lake High School, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, has about 300 students, according to its Web site.

Audrey Thayer, who lives in Bemidji and works as a researcher for the American Civil Liberties Union's Minnesota chapter, said the reservation was locked down by police with roadblocks.

“They have got it closed off,” she said.

The reservation is about 400 kilometres north of the Twin Cities. It is home to the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.

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Eight dead in Minnesota school shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn., March 21 (Reuters) - Eight people were shot dead and more than dozen wounded on Monday by a student who opened fire at a high school and a home on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota, authorities said.

Among the dead was a male security guard, a female teacher, three students and the gunman, FBI agent Paul McCabe said. As many as 15 other students were injured.

"They believe the shooter is among the dead and was acting alone," McCabe said.

Prior to the afternoon school shooting, the student shot dead a couple at a home on the reservation, McCabe said.

Other officials identified the couple as the gunman's grandparents, who were apparently among the dead. His grandfather was a longtime police officer on the reservation, a fire department official told CBS News.

"The young man, whoever he is, shot his grandfather and grandmother, and then went to the school and shot as many as 16 more," said Vernon Bellecourt of the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis.