School shooting in Minnesota.

[BSarro]

I have to once again tell about a school shooting. I have to go to sleep knowing if only WWASPS or another organization would have had the chance to help the teen who killed ten ,including his own grandparents. I will have to always think about what could have been for this teen.

[Nihilanthic]

*claps* I was waiting on someone like you to sieze on this like a fucking vulture.

Fuck off and die.

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.
--Hugh Downs

[chi3]

Yeah, Niles, She and the others who have never had any real experience of the BM prisons love to say how that would have solved the problem! They have no idea the rage, depression, and hate some of these kids come out of there with! It's kinda like when you put the mugger in jail, and he stews on how if he had left no witness he wouldn't be stuck there. But he is. So the longer he's there, the more his rage grows. When he gets out, he attacks someone right away. unfortunately, they are the focus of his rage. The mugger becomes a muderer. Think it can't or won't happen with some of these kids that are tortured and treated like shit for years at a time?

[Anonymous]

Yeh, well I'll go to sleep tonight wondering if the kid was taking Ritalin or an SSRI, like the other shooters.
Programs are not the end all. Aren't even useful, except to the extent that it keeps the kid isolated from the world.
And lest we forget, kids have died in programs. Too many. A few in W programs too lady.

[Deborah]

And, indeed he was on drugs... uh, medication.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/43089.htm

SCHOOL KILLER'S TWISTED NAZI LOVE
By LUKAS I. ALPERT

He called himself an angel of death.

Jeff Weise, the Native American student who murdered nine people and wounded at least 14 at his Minnesota school Monday before turning the gun on himself, also wrote that he was a fan of Adolf Hitler in a Web chat room run by a neo-Nazi group.

"I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations," Weise, 17, wrote under the screen name todesengel, German for "angel of death."

The postings were found on the Web site of a group that embraces the ideology of the Third Reich, but accepts all races, so long as they stay
separate.

Weise wrote that his belief in racial segregation made him an outcast at his high school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in far northern Minnesota.

Eerily, Weise said on his Web site in April 2004 that he was removed from the school because he was suspected of writing a threat to shoot up the
school on the 20th of the month.

April 20 is Hitler's birthday and the date of the 1999 Columbine HS massacre in Littleton, Colo.

"Just because I claim being a National Socialist, guess whom they've pinned," he wrote.

School board member Kathyrn Beaulieu said Weise was placed in Red Lake HS's Homebound program for violating a school policy and was tutored at home by a teacher.

About a month later, Weise wrote that he had been cleared of suspicion.

But almost a year later, authorities believe Weise went through with the threat.

Weise is believed to have started his bloody rampage at the home of his grandfather, Darryl Lussier, 58 - a tribal police sergeant - fatally
shooting him and his companion, Michelle Sigana, 32.

The teen lived with his grandmother, officials said.

Weise then armed himself with his granddad's police-issued gun belt, a shotgun and two handguns and donned the slain man's bulletproof vest.

He drove his grandfather's marked police cruiser to the school, where he first blasted an unarmed security guard, Derrick Brun, 28, at the door.

Once inside, he encountered teacher Neva Rogers, 62, and a group of students in the hall and fired at them, authorities said.

The group fled to a classroom, where Weise followed them and fatally gunned down several people, including Rogers, authorities said.

Three victims were shot at close range in the head, officials said. One of those died; the other two are in critical condition.

The killer kid then began roaming the halls again searching for more victims at random, as screaming students and school officials ran for cover, officials said.

At one point, he peered through a classroom-door window where a teacher and her panicked students were hiding under desks, witnesses said. After
furiously banging on the door, Weise moved on to kill others.

One boy's life was spared only after Weise pointed his gun at his head and at the last minute appeared to have a change of heart.

He chuckled, waved and fired at someone else, witnesses said.

In a chilling similarity to Columbine, before shooting another boy, Weise asked him if he believed in God - then gunned him down.

The rampage went on for about 10 minutes, authorities said. Then four police officers arrived, and a brief gun battle ensued.

Weise finally fled back to the first classroom where Rogers and the other students lay and shot himself in the head, officials said.

At least 14 others were wounded, officials said.

It is the nation's worst school shooting since the Columbine rampage, in which two student gunmen killed 13 before shooting themselves.

As for Weise, schoolmates and relatives described him as frighteningly anti-social at times.

About a month ago, he sketched a skeleton strumming a guitar and wrote "March to the death song 'til your boots fill with blood" for an English class, a fellow student recalled. "I thought that was him letting everyone know that he was going to do something," said classmate Parston Graves.

Graves said Weise also routinely drew sickening "comic books" of people shooting each other.

"It was mental stuff, it was sick," Graves said.

Weise's home life was troubled, too, say those who know him.

His father committed suicide four years ago, and his mother is in a nursing home due to brain injuries from a car crash.

At school, the hulking sophomore was often teased for wearing eyeliner and a black, Goth-style trench coat, schoolmates said.

A tribal elder told the local Bemidji Pioneer newspaper that Weise was on medication.

In another posting, written under the name NativeNazi, Weise wrote of his disgust at people on the reservation embracing black culture.

"If I asked your average teenager on this reservation: 'Are you proud to be Native?' the answer I would get is 'hell yeah dawg,' " he wrote. "I would find myself asking 'if you're so proud to be Native, then why do you walk, talk, act and dress like an African-American?' "

Weise also said that almost all the teachers at his school were white, and complained that whenever he brought up the idea that people should not intermix to "keep their blood pure," he'd be called a racist.


With Post Wire Services

[Deborah]

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... /503230423

Published Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Behind the Why of a Rampage, Loner With a Taste for Nazism
By MONICA DAVEY
New York Times

Excerpts:

RED LAKE, Minn.,
Mr. Weise's father shot himself to death four
years ago. Not long after that, Mr. Weise's mother was in a serious car accident that left her using a wheelchair and living in a nursing home.

"It was a lot to handle for a kid with no one to guide him or help him," Ms. Parkhurst said. "Nobody took the time to get to know him either."

From a parking lot in the snow-covered, pine-speckled reservation, 120 miles south of the Canadian border, Floyd Jourdain, chairman of the tribal council of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa, said somberly that the tribe, which has wrestled with troubles over poverty and education through the years, had never experienced such a horror.

"Without a doubt, this is the darkest days in the history of our people," Mr. Jourdain said.

Several residents said they believed Mr. Weise had received medication for emotional problems. T-Anna Hanson, 21, a cousin of one of his victims, said Mr. Weise had been admitted to a hospital last year for psychiatric help.

Some neighbors said Mr. Weise had recently been ordered to study temporarily at home, not school, because of a disciplinary problem.

"I guess I've always had a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideas, and his courage to take on larger nations," Mr. Weise wrote in a posting last
March. "I also have a natural dislike for communism."

He added, "It kind of angers me how people pass prejudgment on someone" who expresses support for Hitler.

A month later, Mr. Weise wrote that he was "being blamed for a threat on the school I attend because someone said they were going to shoot up the school on 4/20, Hitler's birthday." But by the end of May 2004, he wrote that he
had been "cleared as a suspect."

"I'm glad for that," he said. "I don't much care for jail. I've never been there and I don't plan on it."

Mr. Lussier [grandfather] had been a sergeant in the reservation police for 30 years and was, residents said, one of its most beloved officers. Where others stuck hard to the books, they said, Sergeant Lussier sometimes let a person off
with a warning, and once even eased a man out of an armed standoff by putting down his service revolver and going to talk to him.

The notion of a Nazi sympathizer on an Indian reservation particularly offended some here. "You have to be white to be a Nazi, don't you?" said one resident, who would give only his first name, George, and said he had known most of the victims all of their lives. "Believe me, there are no other Nazis here."

The reservation, with 880 acres, has a population of 5,118, about 40 percent of them living in poverty, according to the 2000 Census. The tribe also includes about 5,000 members living elsewhere.

On Tuesday, Orville White, whose niece, Thurlene Marie Stillday, 15, was among the dead, stood along a reservation street, his eyes on the ground and his fingers clutching a photograph of her. She had bangs and a hopeful smile.
Gangs, drugs, alcohol: those, Mr. White said, had plagued the reservation before.

But this, he said, was incomprehensible.

[Deborah]

Anti-depressants.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/ ... 213905.htm
Posted on Wed, Mar. 23, 2005
Friend says shooter had threatened violence at school before
BY TED GREGORY
Chicago Tribune

Excerpts:

BEMIDJI, Minn. - (KRT) - As the Red Lake community grappled with the trauma of a high school shooting rampage that left 10 people dead and seven wounded, a friend of gunman Jeff Weise said Weise had been haunted by personal loss and once had threatened to "shoot up the school."

Weise, 16, liked the heavy metal music of Marilyn Manson, used an instant messenger sign-on of Decemberofthesoul and claimed Adolf Hitler as a hero, said Michelle Kingbird, 13, whose brother Ryan Auginash, 15, was wounded in the shooting Monday at Red Lake High School on a remote Indian reservation in northern Minnesota.

Weise was taking anti-depressants, Kingbird said, and was haunted by his father's suicide several years earlier. In his sophomore class picture,
Weise had formed small, devilish horns into the back of his brown, wavy hair.

"He was cool," said the soft-spoken Kingbird. "He was funny and, I don't know, I didn't think he was that kind of person (to attack the school)."

After an act of violence like these shootings, parents desperately seek a guarantee that it will not happen again, and school officials often respond by installing hardware such as metal detectors and surveillance cameras, said Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services in Cleveland. He said the demand for a guarantee is "understandable
but it's also unrealistic."

"The difficult part is that many of the things we should be doing are less tangible but more important," he said. Those measures include increased adult supervision in halls, cafeterias and bus drop-off points, Trump added. The staff's deeper awareness of each child also is important, he said.

Red Lake High School had metal detectors, security guards and surveillance cameras - which caught Weise walking the hall but not firing Monday afternoon. A day earlier, Kingbird had communicated with Weise via computer, she said. They talked about what they were doing after school. He did not mention the attack, and investigators were still seeking a motive behind the killings.

But, about this time last year, after making some vague references to Hitler's birthday of April 20, Weise "said he was just going to go shoot up
the school," Kingbird recalled. "I just said, `You won't,' and then he said, `I will,' and I was like, `No you won't.' Nobody believed him."

Kingbird also denied the contention of other students who said Weise, who was 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds, was a target of teasing.

And, she said, she holds no animosity toward him even though he killed people she knew and wounded her brother. She struggled to explain the
apparent contradiction.

"It's so hard," she said. "I don't know; because he was my friend and all the time I was sad, he made me feel happy."

But violence has flared occasionally at Red Lake since 1979, when a split in tribal leadership led to ambushes and riots in which several homes were
burned, said Kent Smith, a professor of Indian Studies at Bemidji State University. As recently as early 2004, FBI agents came to Red Lake in
response to drive-by shootings directed at local police officers' homes and law enforcement buildings, he said.

Red Lake, a Chippewa reservation, is "a fiercely independent community," that issued passports in the 1980s and license plates in the mid-1970s, said Smith, who has been at Bemidji State for 30 years.

It also is a community dealing with chronic poverty and an unemployment rate of about 40 percent, Smith said.

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© 2005, Chicago Tribune.

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Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

[Deborah]

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-03-22-n51.html
Jeff Weise:
?What brings me to the forum? Well, I stumbled across the site in my study of the Third Reich as well as Nazism, amongst other things. I guess I?ve always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations. I also have a natural dis-like for communism.

When I was growing up, I was taught (like others) that Nazi?s were (are) evil and that Hitler was a very evil man [etc]... Of course, not for a second did I believe this. Upon reading up on his actions, the ideals and issues the German Third Reich [addressed], I began to see how much of a lie had been painted about them. They truly were doing it for the better.

It kind of angers me how people pass pre-judgement on someone if they even so much as say something like ?I support what Hitler did,? without even hearing what you have to say. This goes double if you?re ethnic. I also hear things like, ?oh he had syphilis, he was crazy and [that?s] why he did what he did.? Or, ?he molested his [niece],? it?s easy to see that even today people are trying to destroy the image of a man who deserves great respect... (...)

Once I commit myself to something, I stay until the end...?

http://www.nazi.org/community/forum/YaB ... Todesengel
The Natives you?ve known to be sympathetic to the cause are probably one?s who?ve experienced first hand what kind of problems cultural and race mixing can cause. As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing there is barely any full blooded Natives left. Where I live less than 1% of all the people on the Reservation can speak their own language, and among the youth wanting to be black has run ramped. We have kids my age killing each other over things as simple as a fight, and it?s because of the rap influence. Wannabe-gangsters everywhere, I can?t go 5 feet without hearing someone blasting some rap song over their speakers.
 
Under a National Socialist government, things for us would improve vastly? That is, if we haven?t already become too soft from the way this materialistic life-style has made us, and that is why I am pro-Nazi. It?s hard though, being a Native American National Socialist, people are so misinformed, ignorant, and close minded it makes your life a living hell, but I know if we achieve what we set out to, it will be worth it all.

[Deborah]

Prozac !!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... ge=printer
Shooter Described As Deeply Disturbed
By Ceci Connolly and Dana Hedgpeth
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, March 24, 2005; Page A12

RED LAKE, Minn., March 23 -- Two days after a shooting rampage on the Indian reservation here left 10 dead, friends, relatives and neighbors of the teenage assailant began to sketch a portrait of a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward, lost several close family members, sketched gruesome scenes of armed warriors and was removed from the school where he gunned down most of his victims Monday.

Still, even the few people close to him were at a loss to pinpoint precisely what triggered Jeff Weise's deadly outburst and officials provided little information about the 16-year-old gunman.

Federal authorities said they were conducting autopsies on the gunman and his nine victims, but FBI spokesman Paul McCabe said he did not expect to release any information in the near future. Tribal leaders were even less forthcoming, strictly limiting reporters' movements. The Associated Press reported that two news photographers were briefly held at gunpoint by tribal police.

Tensions rose throughout Wednesday, with some residents whispering fears that if they spoke to outsiders they would suffer retribution. Residents of neighboring communities offered cautionary tales about violence on the reservation and the Justice Department created a task force to deal with gangs when Red Lake suffered five homicides in seven months in 2002. Because Red Lake is a "closed" reservation, it operates as a sovereign nation, running its own police force and dictating who may set foot on the property.

Those willing to be interviewed described Weise as a young man who drifted among various homes on the reservation, listening to heavy-metal music,
proclaiming his affinity for Adolf Hitler and periodically showing up at the high school, even though Desjarlait said that six months ago he had ordered Weise to stay at home for tutoring.

He was taking the antidepressant Prozac and at least once was hospitalized for suicidal tendencies, said Gayle Downwind, a cultural coordinator at Red Lake Middle School who taught Weise. It was not uncommon for Weise to spend
at least one night a week at her home. "He considered my house a safe place to be," she said in an interview.

In his 16 years, Weise lost many relatives. He was estranged from other family members and had a strained relationship with Daryl Lussier, the
grandfather he killed at the start of Monday's rampage.

Family and friends said that Weise's father, Daryl Lussier Jr., committed suicide in 1997. Two years later, a serious automobile accident killed a cousin and left Weise's mother with partial paralysis and brain damage.

Then, about two years ago, his maternal grandfather died, an aunt, Kim Desjarlait, told NBC's "Today" show. "You are dealing with three deaths within eight years. I think for a kid starting at 10 years old, that's a lot to take." At the time, Desjarlait wanted to help raise Weise in Minneapolis, but he was sent to the reservation about 260 miles to the north.

In the sixth grade, Weise met Downwind's son, Sky Grant, and the two became close friends, often playing video games together. Grant recalled that Weise "hated his mother" and had a tendency to skip ahead to violent parts in movies they rented.

When Weise flunked eighth grade, he joined Downwind's special "Learning Center" program at the school. "He didn't function academically. He just sat there and drew pictures of army people with guns," she said in an interview. "He was a talented artist, but he drew terrible, terrible scenes."

Last June, Weise was suicidal. John Dudley, a bus driver for the Red Lake health center, was called to transport Weise to the hospital in Thief River
Falls, 60 miles from the reservation. Describing the boy as quiet, Dudley said Weise was going voluntarily to a psychiatric ward, which he called "the unit."

To some in the school, Weise was long a  frightening figure, towering over many of the youngsters in all-black clothing. Because of recent bomb threats and other safety concerns, Red Lake High School insisted students secured a
pass to go to the restroom, a requirement that agitated Weise, said Lee Ann Grant, Downwind's daughter, who had worked as a security guard there since August.

Special correspondents Patrick Marx and Dalton Walker in Red Lake and
research editor Lucy Shackelford in Washington contributed to this report.

© 2005 The Washington Post Company

[Anonymous]

Forward:
The mass murder was only a end symptom of a child who is struggling on antidepressants. What adult in this child's life did not see the problems he
was having with them. His hospitalization for suicide, his negative and destructive behaviors. All these are indicative of signs to watch for and monitor as adverse reactions and are to be met with immediate medical attention, not
discipline and drug dossage increases.

I can guarantee that this child was not as troubled on the day he began taking these drugs. His "treatment" would have harmlessly begun to help him get through the time of the loss of his father.

Unfortunately these drugs produce mania which can result in murder, suicide, or both. If a child is struggling while on these, you do not continue pouring gasoline on a fire and then expect them not to ignite. In the presence of negative behavior and suicidal tendancies instead, his dossage was increased. Those who allowed this increase in his medication the week before this
rampage also pulled the trigger with such ignorance.

This is not an excuse, it is a fact. Of the lastest children I have helped with manic
activated episodes they were on up to four times the normal amount of an adult dossage of these behavior altering and modifying drugs that are not approved for children. These children trust the adults know what they are doing with their lives and medical treatment. Then is there any wonder how or even why their behavior altered so much.
Like I said. I can guarantee there is an exact cause and effect, and unless and until we take very real steps not one person is exempt from this form of mania activation and all that comes with it.

...nephew she knew as polite and happy...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 214984.htm

..."He always made me laugh"
..."he shot my brother, and he was friends with my brother"...
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascit ... 220309.htm

...Jeff Weise had "a good relationship" with the grandfather he shot and killed...
..."The daughters said Jeff loved his grandfather, and his grandfather loved him"...
..."He was getting counseling"...
...His medication dosage had been increased a week earlier...
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cf ... ING-03-25-
05&cat=AN

A series of Eli Lilly documents that have
recently become publicly accessible, show the company's own review (1988) revealed that even in controlled clinical trials--from which suicidal
patients are excluded--38% of patients taking Prozac compared to 19% of patients on placebo experienced "activation." The term "activation" is used to describe violent and suicidal behavior. The authenticity of the
Lilly-Prozac documents have not been disputed. See: http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27.php

After a thorough independent examination of the pediatric SSRI antidepressant clinical trial data reported to the FDA, in April 2004, the FDA required all antidepressant drugs, including Prozac, to carry explicit warnings that apply for children and adults prescribed an antidepressant.

The label warns about "the emergence of anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility (aggressiveness), impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants..."
See: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/antidepres ... efault.htm

For children and adolescents, the FDA requires an additional Black Box warning about the twofold increased risk of suicidal behavior in children
and adolescents taking Prozac or any antidepressant.

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[Perrigaud]

My parents tried the whole "happy pill" shit. It wasn't about my "chemical imbalance". Seems like there's a pill for everything. How lazy is that? Yes there are rightful justifications for some of the pills out there. I didn't have a chemical imbalance in my opinion. It was the fact that I had a lot of undealt issues I hadn't dealt with. Those skeletons in the closet were eating away at me. I had no closure to those wounds. In turn time went on and they got bigger and bigger. Nowadays I don't take anything. I don't need it. I deal with problems as they come. I make sure to resolve them or at least have closure. I needed to come to closure with a lot of tragic events that happened in my life.
Those pills add to the anger, depression, guilt, or whatever the ailment is in my opinion and experience.

[Deborah]

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/dulut ... 520807.htm
Posted on Fri, Apr. 29, 2005

Relative: Being banned from school was Weise's last straw

RED LAKE SHOOTINGS: Psychiatrists say Jeff Weise should have seen a therapist weekly when his Prozac dosage was doubled.

BY DAVID HANNERS
ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS

Jeff Weise's anger over being banned from high school -- coupled with mood changes brought on by a recent doubling of his antidepressant dosage --
pushed him to carry out last month's deadly shooting spree at the school, family members believe.

In addition, the family and mental health experts question whether Weise, 16, received adequate psychological care after a suicide attempt last
summer.

One of Weise's counselors allegedly had told the family that the youth, who was diagnosed with depression, dressed all in black and often found refuge in sadistic entertainment, was "just going through a phase," said a family member, Lee Cook.

"I don't know how you could say that. It was pretty obvious he wasn't going through a phase," said Cook, a cousin of Daryl "Dash" Lussier, Weise's grandfather. Lussier and his female companion were the first victims in the March 21 shootings, in which Weise killed nine people and wounded seven before taking his own life.

In the five weeks since the tragedy, authorities have revealed nothing about what they believe may have fueled the violence. But after discussing Weise with other family members and speaking extensively about possible reasons for the shootings, Cook said Weise was an intelligent but troubled youth. The teenager watched as those who cared for him -- parents, family, friends, school, mental health providers -- slipped away, one by one, Cook said.

"He left messages with everybody -- his relatives, his friends, his school, his counselors," Cook said. "He was telling people over and over that he was hurting and needed some relief, but nobody seemed to provide any to him."

SCHOOL BAN WAS KEY

Family members believe Weise's breaking point came when he was banned from Red Lake Senior High School because he "didn't get along with one of his teachers," said Cook, who is director of the American Indian Cultural Center at Bemidji State University, south of the Red Lake reservation.

"I think that was the last straw in the string of things that isolated him and imposed on him, and he couldn't take it on," he said.

Under a program set up by the school, Weise was being tutored at home by a teacher who dropped by each day for a short time. School officials say
confidentiality laws prohibit them from revealing what prompted the move.

Cook said he didn't know whether the teacher that Weise had problems with was Neva Rogers, an English teacher who was the lone educator to die in the school shooting. A student in the classroom in which Rogers and other students were shot said it appeared Weise was pursuing Rogers.

The ban came five weeks before the shootings, and school had been "the only place where he had any social interaction," Cook said. "After that, the only relationships he had were on his computer."

Weise's extensive writings on Internet chat rooms, zombie fan-fiction Web sites and homemade computer animation have provided few, if any, clues into what may have driven him to plan and carry out what became the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history.

Federal authorities are investigating how much other students may have known about the scheme or participated in its planning. One of Weise's cousins, Louis Jourdain, also 16, has been charged with conspiracy for allegedly helping plan the attacks.

Jourdain is the son of Floyd "Buck" Jourdain, who is chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa. The elder Jourdain has proclaimed his son's innocence, calling him "nave" and "real green." U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger has declined to say whether investigators have determined a
motive for the shootings, and he has refused to say whether Weise left any writings explaining his actions.

One area federal authorities will not be investigating, though, is the adequacy of the mental health care that Weise received, Heffelfinger said.
Family members and psychiatrists have said Weise's life was one risk factor piled atop another, and that he should have had intensive therapy.

Online, he had written about being physically and verbally abused as a child, and family members have said they knew of some of it. As a youth, he
had been moved from the reservation to the Twin Cities and back again. In the short span of 19 months, he lost his father to suicide and saw his
mother placed in a long-term care facility after suffering brain damage in a car crash.

PROZAC DOUBLED

Weiss attempted suicide last summer, and after being diagnosed with depression, he was prescribed Prozac, an antidepressant. Cook said Weise's daily dosage was doubled to 60 milligrams a day -- considered a heavy dose for an adolescent -- two weeks before the shootings.

Two psychiatrists who specialize in working with adolescents said in interviews that weekly therapy should have accompanied the increased dosage. That is because it is believed changing the dosage can lead to thoughts of suicide in some patients.

The psychiatrists said that while Prozac has helped many adolescents overcome depression, young patients must be closely monitored. Dr. George Realmuto, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a professor at the University of Minnesota, said Prozac's "black box warning," required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, stresses the need for such monitoring.

"The language says that when you change the dosage, you should see that person weekly for the first month, and for the second month you should see them every couple of weeks because your suicidality is increased," Realmuto said.

PROZAC WARNINGS

In March 2004, the FDA issued a public health advisory warning about the use of antidepressants in children. It said studies seemed to suggest "an
increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions" in children taking the medication.

The advisory said patients had to be closely monitored for "worsening depression and suicidal thinking." It advised that patients should be
observed for signs of anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity and restlessness, among other things.

"Every time you have a patient in your office that has those complaints, you have to evaluate that risk and make safety plans," Realmuto said. "Was that done in Jeff Weise's case? They should've said, 'You're depressed, and we're
going to lock up the guns.' " Weise used three weapons in his attacks -- a .22-caliber pistol, a .40-caliber Glock handgun and a 12-gauge shotgun. Authorities have said the Glock and shotgun were owned by Weise's grandfather, who was a tribal policeman. They have declined to say where Weise obtained the other firearm.

Dr. Floyd Anderson, a consulting psychiatrist and associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, also said close
monitoring of the patient is required.

"The follow-up with an adolescent should be fairly close, at least making contact weekly for awhile or every other week for awhile," he said.

COUNSELING VISITS

There is no indication Weise was monitored that closely. In an interview last month with the Washington Post, the youth's grandmother, Shelda
Lussier, said Weise was last seen by a mental health worker on Feb. 21, a month before the shootings.

Lussier said that visit was at a clinic in Red Lake. In his online writings, Weise also spoke of having visited a clinic in nearby Thief River Falls.

Officials at both facilities declined comment, saying that patient confidentiality prevented them from even confirming the teen had been seen
there.

Cook said Weise's visits with a therapist were "sporadic."

Family members claim Weise possessed above-average intelligence but expressed frustration that school wasn't challenging enough.

"Everybody said he was a superb writer," Cook said. "He didn't think the school was giving him enough, as far as a cultural environment for learning, and he was mad about that."

Cook said Weise's family believes that many elements of the youth's support systems broke down, and that people around him were oblivious to warnings signs.