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Gunman Kills 5 on Illinois Campus
Eric Sumberg/daily-chronicle.com, via Associated Press
Rescue workers evacuate a victim of the shooting.
By Monica Davey and Susan Saulny
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Friday, February 15, 2008
DeKalb, Ill. - With minutes left in a class in ocean
sciences at Northern Illinois University on Thursday
afternoon, a tall skinny man dressed in black stepped out
from behind a curtain on the stage of the lecture hall,
said nothing, and opened fire with a shotgun, the
authorities and witnesses said.
The man fired again and again, witnesses said, perhaps 20
times. Students in the large lecture hall, stunned, dropped
to the floor.
Five people, all of them students, were killed, John G.
Peters, the president of Northern Illinois, said at a news
conference Thursday evening. Sixteen others were injured.
Hospital officials said several of the students had been
shot in the head.
The gunman, whom the authorities did not immediately
identify, also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mr.
Peters said, noting that the man
Eric Sumberg/daily-chronicle.com, via Associated Press
Rescue workers evacuate a victim of the shooting.
By Monica Davey and Susan Saulny
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Friday, February 15, 2008
DeKalb, Ill. - With minutes left in a class in ocean
sciences at Northern Illinois University on Thursday
afternoon, a tall skinny man dressed in black stepped out
from behind a curtain on the stage of the lecture hall,
said nothing, and opened fire with a shotgun, the
authorities and witnesses said.
The man fired again and again, witnesses said, perhaps 20
times. Students in the large lecture hall, stunned, dropped
to the floor.
Five people, all of them students, were killed, John G.
Peters, the president of Northern Illinois, said at a news
conference Thursday evening. Sixteen others were injured.
Hospital officials said several of the students had been
shot in the head.
The gunman, whom the authorities did not immediately
identify, also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mr.
Peters said, noting that the man