I can't stand this. Every day it seems like these days, someones injured or killed in a school shooting, today 5 people were killed, and if VT is any example of what we face in the future of our public schools, then it will get very much worse before it, if it does, get better.
A former student dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from the stage of a Northern Illinois University lecture hall Thursday, killing five students and wounding more than a dozen others before taking his own life.
University President John Peters said there were a total of 22 casualties in what he described as a "rapid fire" attack that sent terrified students running for cover.
The gunman shot himself on the stage after a rampage that lasted no more than a few minutes.
The slain included four females and two males, including the killer, Peters said.
Four, including the gunman, died at the scene, and two died at the hospital, Peters said.
As of Thursday night, six patients in ctirical condition at Kishwaukee Community Hospital were transferred to other area hospitals, three were admitted and eight were discharged, according to the hospital's Web site.
Peters said the gunman was a Spring 2007 graduate student in sociology at NIU, but was not currently enrolled.
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