There was a shooting at a school in minnisoda at 3pm today. 6 are dead including the gunman. They are not saying to much right now. It's only 3 hours from where I live. Things like this are so tradgic.

Misty

I am so lucky I live in Australia - I haven't heard of any school shootings over here. I feel so sorry for everyone involved in that - it is just terrible.

I live in Canada and things like that don't happen too often here, but I live 3 hours from minnisoda so it's kinda close to home.

Misty=)

That is very very close to home!!!

(CNN) -- A student on Monday killed two of his grandparents, then went on a shooting rampage at his Minnesota high school, killing five people and wounding as many as 15 others before killing himself, officials said.

FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe told reporters the dead include a female teacher, a male security officer and four Red Lake High School students.

"We believe that one of those students is the shooter," McCabe said.

The school was evacuated and locked down, he said.

"At this time, we believe he was acting alone," McCabe said. He would not comment on a possible motive, saying, "It's far too early in the investigation."

The slain students were shot in one room, he said, adding that 14 to 15 other students were wounded.

"Apparently, he walked down the hallway shooting and then he entered a classroom, he shot several students and a teacher, then himself," said Roman Stately, with the Red Lake Fire Department, who arrived at the high school moments after the shootings.

Authorities discovered about an hour later that the boy had shot and killed his grandmother and grandfather, a veteran of the police force, Stately told KARE-TV.

Stately said the boy used his grandfather's police-issued weapon in the school rampage.

The shootings occurred about 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET), in Red Lake High School, a school of 300 student that is on a sovereign Indian reservation within Beltrami County, about 25 miles north of Bemidji, a town of about 25,000 residents, many of them Ojibway Indians, he said.

The school is about 240 miles north of the Twin Cities, near the Canadian border.

Hey Misty..doesn't Canada in general have a REALLY low crime rate? I read that somewhere..
That school shooting made me sick..the grandfather was a retired vetern on the police force...
I wonder what caused/started this?

Our crime rate is a lot lower than the U.S. I live in Winnipeg and we are the Murder Capital of Canada and there were 30 Murders last year.

Misty

Where is Winnipeg? I am meant to be moving to canada in about september october this year.....

Winnipeg is in Manitoba, it's right in the middle of canada.

Sad story, MN is the next state over from me. way too close to home.