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==2008 Shootings==

==2008 Shootings==

:<small>Note: This section documents a current event - and is subject to change quickly.</small>

:<small>Note: This section documents a current event - and is subject to change quickly.</small>

On February 14, 2008, a "white male armed with a handgun and a shotgun" opened fire in a lecture theatre.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm</ref> The gunman killed five (four females and one male) and injured twelve before [[suicide|taking his life]].<ref name="washpost">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews</ref> NIU campus police chief Donald Grady said the gunman was not a student at the school and that police had no apparent 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, a "white male armed with a handgun and a shotgun" opened fire in a lecture theatre.<ref name="BBC">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7246003.stm</ref> The gunman killed five (four females and one male) and injured twelve before [[suicide|taking his life]].<ref name="washpost">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021402647.html?hpid=topnews</ref>The gunman, 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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