Vahvistettu ja kuva julkistettu.
Kyseessä on tosiaan tuo Steven (tai siis oikeasti Stephen).
DEKALB, Ill. - The man who killed five people and wounded 16 others at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage had recently become erratic after halting his medication, police said Friday.
The man, identified as 27-year-old former NIU student Stephen Kazmierczak, carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case and also wielded three handguns during Thursday's ambush inside a lecture hall, they said.
Two of the weapons — the pump-action Remington shotgun and a Glock 9mm handgun — were purchased legally less than a week ago, on Feb. 9, authorities said. They were purchased in Champaign, where Kazmierczak was enrolled at the University of Illinois.
The other weapons were still being traced.
Gunman's father
The gunman's father, Robert Kazmierczak, briefly came out of his house in Lakeland, Fla., to talk to reporters.
"Please leave me alone. ... This is a very hard time for me," he said as he threw his arms up and wept. He declined further comment, saying he was diabetic, then went back inside his house. A sign on the front door read: "Illini fans live here."
President Bush talked by telephone with NIU President John Peters and said people will be praying for the families of the victims and for the university community.
Campus Police Chief Donald Grady said investigators recovered 48 shell casings and six shotgun shells following the attack in Cole Hall. The gunman paused to reload his shotgun after opening fire on a crowd of terrified students in a geology class, sending them running and crawling toward the exits. He then shot himself to death on the stage of the hall.
Kazmierczak, whose first name was earlier listed as Steven, was taking some kind of medication, Grady said.
"He had stopped taking medication and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," Grady said, declining to name the drug or provide other details.
Miscommunication; unknown motive
Correcting information his office released earlier Friday, DeKalb County Coroner Rusty Miller said five students, not six, were killed in the rampage, in addition to the gunman. Miller said the higher victim total was the result of confusion over the fate of a patient taken to another county for treatment.
Onpa kummaa.
Kampuksen poliisihan kertoi, että ampuja on keskeyttänyt jonkun lääkityksen muutama viikko sitten, mutta ei vahvistanut käytettyjen lääkkeiden nimiä.
