Illinois shooter doesn't fit 'typical' profile
Lindsey Pruitt
Issue date: 2/20/08 Section: News
He resumed full-time studies in January.
"He was engaging, motivated, responsible," Carter-Black said, according to USA Today. "I saw nothing that would suggest that there was anything troubling about his behavior or him."
The motive of the killer is completely unknown, officials said.
"There is no note or threat that I know of," Peters said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"By all accounts that we can tell right now, he was a very good student that the professors thought well of," Peters said.
Nevertheless, Kazmierczak walked into a geology class in Cole Hall and opened fire on 21 students, then took his own life.
Allyse Jerome, 19, a sophomore from Schaumburg, Ill., remembered when the gunman burst through a stage door and pulled out a gun, she said, according to The Associated Press.
"Honestly, at first everyone thought it was a joke," Jerome said. Everyone hit the floor, she said. Then she got up and ran, but tripped. She felt like "an open target," she said.
"He could've decided to get me," Jerome said. "I thought for sure he was gonna get me."
Lauren Carr was sitting in the third row when she saw the shooter walk through a door on the right-hand side of the stage, pointing a gun straight ahead, she said, according to The Associated Press.
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle," said Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I said I could get up and run or I could die here."
She said a student in front of her was bleeding, "but he just kept running."
"I heard this girl scream, 'Run, he's reloading the gun!'" she said.
A total of 22 people were shot, including the gunman who took his own life. Four people died at the scene; two others died later at area hospitals, making the number of fatalities six.
According to recent evidence, Kazmierczak had recently stopped taking his medication and "had become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," NIU Police Chief Donald Grady said at a press conference Friday.
"He was engaging, motivated, responsible," Carter-Black said, according to USA Today. "I saw nothing that would suggest that there was anything troubling about his behavior or him."
The motive of the killer is completely unknown, officials said.
"There is no note or threat that I know of," Peters said Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"By all accounts that we can tell right now, he was a very good student that the professors thought well of," Peters said.
Nevertheless, Kazmierczak walked into a geology class in Cole Hall and opened fire on 21 students, then took his own life.
Allyse Jerome, 19, a sophomore from Schaumburg, Ill., remembered when the gunman burst through a stage door and pulled out a gun, she said, according to The Associated Press.
"Honestly, at first everyone thought it was a joke," Jerome said. Everyone hit the floor, she said. Then she got up and ran, but tripped. She felt like "an open target," she said.
"He could've decided to get me," Jerome said. "I thought for sure he was gonna get me."
Lauren Carr was sitting in the third row when she saw the shooter walk through a door on the right-hand side of the stage, pointing a gun straight ahead, she said, according to The Associated Press.
"I personally Army-crawled halfway up the aisle," said Carr, a 20-year-old sophomore. "I said I could get up and run or I could die here."
She said a student in front of her was bleeding, "but he just kept running."
"I heard this girl scream, 'Run, he's reloading the gun!'" she said.
A total of 22 people were shot, including the gunman who took his own life. Four people died at the scene; two others died later at area hospitals, making the number of fatalities six.
According to recent evidence, Kazmierczak had recently stopped taking his medication and "had become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," NIU Police Chief Donald Grady said at a press conference Friday.
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Concerned NIU Parent
Concerned NIU Parent
posted 2/19/08 @ 9:55 PM CST
What I would like to know is how long had he been talking antidepressants and had he ever taken them before. About 12 years ago my regular doctor put me on Zoloft and as an undiagnost bipolar it was like throwing gas on a fire. (Continued…)
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