The teenage son of the tribal chairman has been arrested in connection with last week's shootings on a Minnesota Indian reservation, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said.
Louis Jourdain, son of Floyd Jourdain Jr and a student at Red Lake High School, where most of the killings took place, was arrested on Sunday, the source said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Nine people were killed in last Monday's attacks before 16-year-old gunman Jeff Weise, also a student at the school, took his own life.
The younger Jourdain was arrested as part of an investigation into a potentially wider plot, said the source, who gave no further details.
Weise, who had a history of depression, first shot to death his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend at a home on the reservation, then went to the school and killed a security guard, a teacher and five students. The grandfather was a tribal police officer.
Investigators said previously that Weise had acted alone in the rampage on the Red Lake Band of Chippewa's reservation. It was the deadliest school shooting in the US since the one at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, which ended with the deaths of 12 students, a teacher and the two teen gunmen.
The elder Jourdain has been the official face of the tribe in the days following Weise's attack.
At a news conference last Thursday, he said: ``This is a wake-up call to us all. We need to spend more time with one another and paying more attention to our young people and what they're doing and what they are saying.''
Funerals were held on Monday for Weise and three of his victims. The services for both Derrick Brun, 28, and Weise were held at St. Mary's Catholic Church, and the ceremony for Weise was delayed as Brun's service ran long.
Brun, a security guard credited with saving lives at school by confronting Wiese, was remembered as a hero and a warrior. He was the first person shot at the school.
A security guard who worked with Brun has said he rose from his desk near the school's entrance to confront Weise, allowing her to shepherd other students to safety.
"This young man sacrificed his life without hesitation," said Ernie Stevens, a board member of several American Indian groups. "That is what warriors do."
Earlier on Monday, a service was held in Bemidji for Neva Rogers, the teacher killed by Weise. Witnesses said Rogers had told students to hide and was praying before being shot several times. She was the only non-Indian killed.
At another service on Monday, the body of 14-year-old Alicia White lay in her coffin surrounded by gifts.
VAGUE: The criteria of the amnesty remain unclear, but it would cover political violence from 1999 to today, and those convicted of murder or drug trafficking would not qualify Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez on Friday announced an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners, including opposition leaders, journalists and human rights activists detained for political reasons. The measure had long been sought by the US-backed opposition. It is the latest concession Rodriguez has made since taking the reins of the country on Jan. 3 after the brazen seizure of then-Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. Rodriguez told a gathering of justices, magistrates, ministers, military brass and other government leaders that the ruling party-controlled Venezuelan National Assembly would take up the bill with urgency. Rodriguez also announced the shutdown
Civil society leaders and members of a left-wing coalition yesterday filed impeachment complaints against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, restarting a process sidelined by the Supreme Court last year. Both cases accuse Duterte of misusing public funds during her term as education secretary, while one revives allegations that she threatened to assassinate former ally Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The filings come on the same day that a committee in the House of Representatives was to begin hearings into impeachment complaints against Marcos, accused of corruption tied to a spiraling scandal over bogus flood control projects. Under the constitution, an impeachment by the
Exiled Tibetans began a unique global election yesterday for a government representing a homeland many have never seen, as part of a democratic exercise voters say carries great weight. From red-robed Buddhist monks in the snowy Himalayas, to political exiles in megacities across South Asia, to refugees in Australia, Europe and North America, voting takes place in 27 countries — but not China. “Elections ... show that the struggle for Tibet’s freedom and independence continues from generation to generation,” said candidate Gyaltsen Chokye, 33, who is based in the Indian hill-town of Dharamsala, headquarters of the government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). It
A Virginia man having an affair with the family’s Brazilian au pair on Monday was found guilty of murdering his wife and another man that prosecutors say was lured to the house as a fall guy. Brendan Banfield, a former Internal Revenue Service law enforcement officer, told police he came across Joseph Ryan attacking his wife, Christine Banfield, with a knife on the morning of Feb. 24, 2023. He shot Ryan and then Juliana Magalhaes, the au pair, shot him, too, but officials argued in court that the story was too good to be true, telling jurors that Brendan Banfield set
RSS