School shooter followed video game-like ‘script’
Faded Columbine reality kept warning signs from being taken seriously
Sixteen-year-old Jeff Weise, who shot dead nine people at and near his Red Lake, Minn., school before killing himself, reportedly left clues to his troubles in Web site and blog postings on Hitler, suicide attempts and school shootings as well as a violent animation posted on the Internet. NBC “Nightly News” producer Subrata De spoke about the warnings with Dr. Katherine Newman, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of “Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.” Below is a transcript of that interview.
To read the interview, go here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7288381
Nancy
Faded Columbine reality kept warning signs from being taken seriously
Sixteen-year-old Jeff Weise, who shot dead nine people at and near his Red Lake, Minn., school before killing himself, reportedly left clues to his troubles in Web site and blog postings on Hitler, suicide attempts and school shootings as well as a violent animation posted on the Internet. NBC “Nightly News” producer Subrata De spoke about the warnings with Dr. Katherine Newman, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and the author of “Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.” Below is a transcript of that interview.
To read the interview, go here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7288381
Nancy