Northern Illinois University Shooting Updates
Posted on February 17th, 2008
On Thursday, 27 year old Stephen P. Kazmierczak, with at least two handguns under his coat and a guitar case in his hand, entered Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, walked onto the stage of a classroom there, took a shoot gun from the guitar case, and shot 22 people. Seven died.
Kazmierczak took his own life after the shooting. It was the worst campus violence since the Virginia Tech tragedy exactly 10 months earlier.
The campus was closed on December 10 while police investigated washroom graffiti on campus that referred to the Virginia Tech massacre.
The News Blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education has become one of the best sources for news on the shootings at NIU. Their original story, Gunman Shoots 5 to Death at Northern Illinois U. Before Killing Himself, was published on the day of the shooting.
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