6 shot dead, including gunman, at Northern Illinois University

This article retrieved from CNN on February 14, 2008 talks about a terrible tragedy at Northern Illinois University where a gunman shot against a group of people killing five of them before killing himself. The motives for the murders are still unknown. He was an ex student at NIU, and according to references of his ex teachers, Stephen Kazmierczak was a very good student. He was awarded a few years ago at Northern Illinois University because he was a outstanding student while he was enrolled at the university. According to an interview given by Rosie Moroni a witness at the scene to CNN, she was outside Cole Hall near the King Commons when she heard shots coming from the classroom she was heading to. The shot was followed by "a lot of people screaming," then people ran out the doors yelling, "He's got a gun, call 9-1-1," she said. The classes were cancelled Thursday and Friday, and the campus remained closed.

What is going on with our youth and society? What happened to Stephen Kazmierczak? What were his motives to kill these people? What are we going to do? What is motivating people to act in strange ways, bringing pain, sadness, sorrow, fear and death, to community? This was neither the first nor the worst tragedy that occurred in an American University. In fact, it is becoming common hearing about shootings anywhere, either provoked by students or ex students in schools or by particular people in different public places as occurred in a commercial centre in Omaha, Nebraska a few months ago. There was also a shooting in a commercial centre in Chicago, Illinois just two weeks ago. Today there is in mourning not only Northern Illinois University but also relatives and friends of those people that without reason died because someone had an unknown problem, that at this point no one knows for sure what happened.

6 Shot Dead, Including Gunman, at Northern Illinois University