With minutes left in a class in
ocean sciences at Northern Illinois University on Thursday afternoon, a tall
skinny man dressed all 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
shot again and again, witnesses said, perhaps 20 times or more. Students in the
large lecture hall, stunned and screaming, dropped to the floor. They crouched
behind anything they could find, even an overhead projector. They scattered,
the blood of victims spattering, some said, on those who escaped injury. Five
people, all of them students, were killed, John G. Peters, the president of
Northern Illinois University, said at a news conference late Thursday evening.
Sixteen others were wounded, two of them critically, Mr. Peters said. Hospital
officials said several of the students had been shot in the head. One of the
injured has since been reported to have died. The gunman, whom the authorities
did not identify, also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Mr. Peters said.
The gunman, he said, had been a graduate student in sociology at the university
in 2007, but was no longer enrolled here. Records suggested that the man, who
had more recently attended a different state school, had no previous police
contact, the authorities said.
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