Others Aware of Red Lake Plans, Officials Say (20 others may have known)

[truthpusher]

Others Aware of Red Lake Plans, Officials Say
As Many as Four Believed to Have Helped Plot Attack
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By Dana Hedgpeth and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 2, 2005; Page A03
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RED LAKE, Minn., April 1 -- As many as 20 teenagers may have known ahead of time about plans for the shooting spree that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on the Indian reservation here March 21, tribal and federal officials said Friday.

Capt. Dewayne Dow of the tribal police told a group of parents, teachers and staff at a three-hour school board meeting that authorities believe as many as 20 students were involved.

One law enforcement official said the FBI believes that as many as four students -- including gunman Jeff Weise and Louis Jourdain, a classmate arrested Sunday -- were directly involved in planning an attack on Red Lake High School, and well over a dozen others may have heard about the plot.

"There may have been as many as four of these kids who were active participants in the plot," said the official, who declined to be identified discussing an ongoing investigation. "The question is, how many other kids had some knowledge of this or had heard about it somehow? We think there were quite a few."

FBI agents plan to perform forensic analysis on 30 to 40 computers seized Friday from the high school computer laboratory, FBI and school officials said. Investigators hope to learn more from the school computers, since much of the alleged discussion and planning among Weise and his friends occurred through e-mails and instant messages, the law enforcement official said.

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19704-2005Apr1.html

[mzmolly]

1. Oh goodness! All I can figure is that they thought it was all "talk"

They need an anonymous tip line number posted in EVERY school across this country.

The last paragraph is interesting. I wonder if Louis Jourdain would be safe back on that reservation? I'm not convinced he was guilty of anything but hubris, but he's probably going to be a scapegoat?

[dflprincess]

2. I've been wondering as well

if was all just goofy kid talk - with most of them not having any intention to act or even taking their own chatter seriously.

[mzmolly]

5. Exactly. I am certain that they were planning this to act like big shots

and never thougth it would actually happen. The only problem is ONE of these kids took the plans very seriously.

[NVMojo]

3. I can see that happening very easily with kids....

such a tragedy!!

[murielm99]

4. This sounds very much like what happened near me

in Oregon, Illinois.

Three boys set bombs in several locations around the high school. Potentially, they could have harmed or killed many people.

They set off two chemical bombs outside the school. That alerted school officials, and several students, who had heard the boys talking. None of the students took the boys seriously. They thought it was all talk.

Maybe we do need anonymous tip lines in high schools.