12 Stories on Steven Kazmierczak
A former student who killed five people at Northern Illinois University last Valentine's Day had been drummed out of the Army for hiding his psychiatric history and expressed admiration for famous murderers, CNN has learned.
Eric Mace says he thought he was giving his daughter good advice by asking her to sit up front in class.
The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday.
The revelation from Steven Kazmierczak's girlfriend that he had stopped taking an antidepressant a few weeks before his rampage at Northern Illinois University has reopened debate about whether the drug can cause violent behavior.
Steven Kazmierczak had been taking three drugs prescribed for him by his psychiatrist, the Northern Illinois University gunman's girlfriend told CNN.
Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly with a gun law after Virginia Tech's shooting, but it came too late for Northern Illinois University and it is unclear whether it would have made a difference
This week's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University leaves police, campus officials and students with many unanswered questions.
The girlfriend of the gunman who killed five people and then himself at Northern Illinois University last Thursday told CNN there was "no indication he was planning something."
A laptop computer seized from a DeKalb motel and believed to be connected to Thursday's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University had no hard drive, federal officials said Saturday.
Eyewitness: All it took was six minutes for a college lecture course to become a killing field
A former student who killed five people at Northern Illinois University last Valentine's Day had been drummed out of the Army for hiding his psychiatric history and expressed admiration for famous murderers, CNN has learned.
Eric Mace says he thought he was giving his daughter good advice by asking her to sit up front in class.
The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday.
The revelation from Steven Kazmierczak's girlfriend that he had stopped taking an antidepressant a few weeks before his rampage at Northern Illinois University has reopened debate about whether the drug can cause violent behavior.
Steven Kazmierczak had been taking three drugs prescribed for him by his psychiatrist, the Northern Illinois University gunman's girlfriend told CNN.
Illinois lawmakers moved swiftly with a gun law after Virginia Tech's shooting, but it came too late for Northern Illinois University and it is unclear whether it would have made a difference
This week's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University leaves police, campus officials and students with many unanswered questions.
The girlfriend of the gunman who killed five people and then himself at Northern Illinois University last Thursday told CNN there was "no indication he was planning something."
A laptop computer seized from a DeKalb motel and believed to be connected to Thursday's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University had no hard drive, federal officials said Saturday.
Eyewitness: All it took was six minutes for a college lecture course to become a killing field
Northern Illinois University on Friday identified the man who fatally shot five people in a classroom as Steven P. Kazmierczak, whom police described as an award-winning student "revered" by colleagues and faculty.
A firearms dealer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Friday confirmed a bizarre link between the graduate student accused of killing five people at Northern Illinois University and the gunman in last year's deadly shootings at Virginia Tech.
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