Red Lake shootings
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.
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| Location | Red Lake, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 48°09′18″N 95°06′08″W |
| Date | March 21, 2005 2:49 – 2:58 p.m. (UTC-6) |
| Target | Red Lake Senior High School |
Attack type | School shooting, mass shooting, murder–suicide, spree killing, familicide |
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| Deaths | 10 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 5 |
| Perpetrator | Jeff Weise |
Weise shot and killed seven people at the school and wounded five 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.