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 / 48.15500; -95.10222
Date	March 21, 2005; 19 years ago (2005-03-21) 2:49 – 2:58 p.m. (UTC-6)
Target	Red Lake Senior High School
Attack type	School shooting, mass shooting, murder–suicide, spree killing, familicide, mass murder
Weapons	Glock 22 pistol Ruger MK II pistol Remington 870 Police Magnum pump-action shotgun
Deaths	10 (including the perpetrator)
Injured	9
Perpetrator	Jeff Weise
Motive	Unknown

The Red Lake shootings were a spree killing that occurred on March 21, 2005, in two places on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota, United States. That afternoon, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather (an Ojibwe tribal police sergeant) and his grandfather's girlfriend at their 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 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 mass shooting in Minnesota history.