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On February 14, 2008, Stephen Kazmierczak, armed with a shot gun, opened fire in a lecture theatre.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm</ref> He killed five (four females and one male) and injured 16, before [[suicide|taking his life]].<ref name="washpost">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews</ref> Kazmierczak, a former graduate student, offered no motive.<ref name="washpost"/> It was the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week,<ref name="BBC"/> and the second time NIU had faced violence in two months (when a student left racial attacks and references to the [[Virginia Tech]] shootings on a bathroom wall).<ref name="washpost"/>

On February 14, 2008, Stephen Kazmierczak, armed with a shot gun, opened fire in a lecture theatre.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm</ref> He killed five (four females and one male) and injured 16, before [[suicide|taking his life]].<ref name="washpost">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews</ref> Kazmierczak, a former graduate student, offered no motive.<ref name="washpost"/> It was the fourth shooting at a US education establishment within a week,<ref name="BBC"/> and the second time NIU had faced violence in two months (when a student left racial attacks and references to the [[Virginia Tech]] shootings on a bathroom wall).<ref name="washpost"/>

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==See also==

==See also==

*[[Virginia Tech shootings]]

*[[Virginia Tech shootings]]

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