Red Lake shootings
| Red Lake shootings | |
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| Location | Red Lake, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 48°09′18″N 95°06′08″W / 48.15500°N 95.10222°W |
| Date | March 21, 2005 c. 2:47 – 2:55 p.m. (UTC-6) |
| Target | Students and Staff At Red Lake Senior High School |
Attack type | Mass shooting, school shooting, mass murder, murder-suicide, spree shooting, parricide |
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| Deaths | 10 (including the perpetrator, 7 at the school; the grandfather at home and grandfather's girlfriend) |
| Injured | 9 |
| Perpetrator | Jeffrey James “Jeff” Weise |
| Defender | Jeffrey May |
| Motive | Inconclusive |
The Red Lake shootings was a spree killing that occurred on March 21, 2005, at two locations on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. That afternoon at 2:00 p.m., 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe tribal police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at their lakeside home. After taking his grandfather's police weapons and bulletproof vest, Weise drove his grandfather's police vehicle to Red Lake Senior High School, where he had been a student some months before.
Weise shot and killed seven people at the school and wounded at least 9 others. The dead included an unarmed security guard at the entrance of the school, a teacher, and five students. After the police arrived, Weise exchanged gunfire with them. After being wounded, he shot and killed himself with a pump action shotgun in a classroom. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in the United States since the Columbine High School massacre. It remains the deadliest school shooting in Minnesota history.