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A shooting on the campus of Northern Illinois University has left at least 6 people dead, including the gunman, Steve Kazmierczak, and a total of 22 people injured. Reports of a white male shooter armed with a shotgun and a pistol went out to police at around 3 p.m. on February 14, 2008. A general alert has been issued and classes have been canceled for the remainder of the day and February 15. Illinois governor has declared a state of emergency.
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Northern Illinois University Shooting News and Blogs
- Official Site: Information on the Tragedy at NIU
- YouTube Video: At Least 6 Dead in Illinois Shooting (Time: 1:40)
- YouTube Video: Reports: 15 Shot at Northern Illinois University (Time: 0:51)
- YouTube Video: BUSH reaction - Shooting at Northern Illinois University Shooting
- Topix.net: Northern Illinois University Shooting
- Google News: Northern Illinois University Shooting
- USA Today: Proposal to raze site of NIU rampage stirs debate (March 1, 2008)
- "But the idea has plenty of critics. Some argue that razing the building would be like trying to bury the past. The best way to honor the dead, they say, would to be continue using Cole Hall to educate."
- Associated Press: Ill. Governor: Demolish NIU Hall (February 27, 2008)
- ChicagoTribune.com: "Tough road ahead for NIU" (February 24, 2008)
- "As classes resume Monday -- 11 days after a former student fired into a large lecture hall, killing five students and injuring more than a dozen -- 25,000 students and thousands more staff and faculty will set out on a long road back, uncertain about the coming days, months, even years."
- CBS News: Campus Gunman Called "Somewhat Erratic"... (February 15, 2008)
- 27-year-old shooter Steve Kazmierczak was a former graduate student in Sociology at NIU. He had allegedly been taking medications which he stopped using a few weeks before the incident.
- The New York Times: Gunman Kills 4 on Illinois Campus (February 14, 2008)
- Los Angeles Times: Student: 'All I saw was the flash of shooting' (February 14, 2008)
- Student: "All I saw was the flash of shooting. He pulled out his gun. He just started shooting at all the kids. He just started shooting at people, and I ran out of there as fast as I could. I ran all the way to the student center; when I got there I could still hear shooting [from the classroom]."
- FOXNews.com: Several People Shot at Northern Illinois University (February 14, 2008)
- Student Edward Robinson: "It was almost like he knew who he wanted to shoot. He knew who and where he wanted to be firing at."
- MSNBC: Gunman Opens Fire on Illinois Campus (February 14, 2008)
- ABC News: Gunman opens fire at university near Chicago (February 14, 2008)
- About 140 students were in the classroom when the man opened fire.
- ChicagoTribune.com: "Shooting reported on NIU campus" (February 14, 2008)
- Shots were allegedly fired in a geology class in Cole Hall.
- WBBM 780: Shooting at NIU... (February 14, 2008)
- Daily Chronicle Online: At least two injured in shooting at NIU (February 14, 2008)
- Google Blog Search: Northern Illinois University Shooting
