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Carpentersville, IL

Feb 15, 2008

7 Dead in N. Illinois U. Hall Shooting

“We have no motive and I have no way of knowing what the motive was.”

Another student shot when a gunman opened fire at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University has died, bringing the toll to seven, including the gunman, a coroner said Friday.

Investigators and school officials did not immediately know why the man fired on a geology class with a shotgun and two handguns Thursday before committing suicide.

The shooter had been a graduate student in sociology at Northern Illinois as recently as spring 2007, but was not currently enrolled at the 25,000-student campus, University President John Peters said. Read more

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