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With all the interest in the new Ely Sasquatch Video , it seems like a good moment to mention the time-space links to Red Lake, Minnesota. Both locations are in northern Minnesota, just south of the Canadian border. Ely is 200 miles due east of Red Lake. Yesterday, as the Ely Sasquatch Video was exploding onto the internet via such sites as Cryptomundo, Boing Boing, The Anomalist, and Coast to Coast AM, the day also marked the first anniversary of an infamous school shooting with strange ties to Bigfoot. On March 21, 2005, Red Lake, Minnesota high school student Jeffrey James Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) killed a total of ten people. First he killed his grandfather and grandfather's wife, 32-year old Michelle Sigana, who was his grandfather's police force partner. Later he shot and killed seven people at Red Lake High School, including a teacher and a security guard. As many as 15 others were wounded in the school shooting. After briefly exchanging fire with polic...

Today is the first anniversary of the Red Lake, Minnesota, school shootings. For a Minnesota-based article about the aftermath, see today's Duluth Superior .

http://www.lompocrecord.com/articles/2006/03/19/news/news04.txt Lompoc Record, CA March 19, 2006 Arroyo Grande officer likely ended deadly Highway 101 chase By Mark Baylis/Staff Writer An Arroyo Grande police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave, unofficially credited with fatally shooting an armed suspect and ending Friday's wild police chase that included two carjackings, three hostages and several shootouts with police. Officer Albert L. Beattie, 32, a nine-year veteran of the department, was placed on paid administrative leave until the shooting investigation of Friday's fracas on Highway 101 is complete. The investigation and administrative leave are standard procedure in deadly force incidents, said Chief Tony Aeilts. Authorities are awaiting the results of a Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department autopsy to determine if Beattie shot the suspect or whether he died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The dead man's name hasn't been released. ...

http://www.krnv.com/global/story.asp?s=4643014 RENO Court documents reveal chilling details about Reno middle school shooting March 18, 2006 Shocking new details are emerging about why a 14-year-old boy allegedly opened fire, injuring two students at a Reno middle school Tuesday morning [March 14, 2006]. Court documents, filed Thursday, shed new light on what was already a profoundly disturbing case. Police quote James Scott Newman as saying he planned his attack on his fellow students for a week before taking a gun to school. Court documents filed by the Reno Police Department offer chilling details of Newman's interview with detectives after he was arrested at Pine Middle School on Tuesday morning. They quote Newman as saying he, "Was tired of others making fun of him..." and planned the shooting for a week by "Research[ing] the Columbine High School shooting on the Internet, and this further inspired him to do the shooting." Taking a gun from his parents...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/18/national/18dennys.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 18, 2006 Another Killing at a Denny's, Fourth in 3 Days By CINDY CHANG LOS ANGELES, March 17 — An 18-year-old man was shot dead early Friday and another man was wounded after a fight broke out at a Denny's restaurant in Anaheim, the third fatal shooting episode at a California Denny's in three days. Four people have died and three have been injured in the shootings. A shooting Thursday in Ontario, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, also stemmed from a fight. But a Wednesday shooting in the coastal town of Pismo Beach appeared to be a deranged act by a homeless man who shot at a noon lunch crowd, killing two before committing suicide. The Denny's Corporation, which operates or licenses over 1,600 diner-style restaurants nationwide, issued a statement Friday calling the shootings "three separate and random acts of violence." Th...

Marketing analyst says: "If the media uses terms like copycat or copycat killers, then people might be less likely to eat there." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Originally published Saturday, March 18, 2006            Experts doubt California attacks will harm restaurant chain By Muhammed El-Hasan DAILY BREEZE Unfazed by the news of three fatal shootings at Denny's restaurants in California this week, Lidia Azouz had a meal Friday at the Lawndale Denny's and said she'd be back. "We're not going to stop coming to Denny's, because we take chances wherever (we) go," said the 17-year-old Hawthorne resident as she stood outside the restaurant with four friends. "You could be driving a car and get shot." With broad media coverage of the shootings, it's unclear how they would affect business at Denny's restaurants. As long as customers like Azouz view the violence as isolated and random, then the restaurant chain's business wo...

There is little doubt that the copycat effect is behind this. Loren http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743482239/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.klfy.com/global/story.asp?s=4645935 March 17, 2006 Man killed in third fatal shooting at a SoCal Denny's restaurant ANAHEIM, Calif. Another fatal shooting at a Denny's restaurant in Southern California. Police say a gunman opened fire early this morning at a restaurant in Anaheim, killing one man and seriously wounding another. A fight broke out inside the restaurant, and police say one victim re-entered the restaurant after being shot and died inside. Earlier this week, two men were killed at a restaurant in Pismo Beach and another man was fatally shot in the parking lot of a restaurant in Ontario. A gun has been found near the scene of today's shooting, but officers aren't sure if it was the weapon used. The gunman is still being sought by authorities.

(2nd shooting on March 16, 2006) A Man Is Fatally Shot Outside a Denny's ONTARIO - Another Southern California Denny's has become the scene of a deadly shooting, this one in Ontario. Officer Bill Russell of the Ontario police says a 37-year-old Pomona man was fatally shot in the restaurant's parking lot on the 1400 block of East Fourth Street. Russell says a group of ten to 15 people was gathered at the scene before the victim arrived. When he did, he got into an altercation with some of its members. One pulled out a gun and shot him. The victim died from his wounds after being taken to an area hospital. Police are looking for a suspect, whose identity remains unknown. Russell says officials also don't know if the gunman and the victim knew one another. Two people were killed yesterday at a Pismo Beach Denny's when a gunman opened fire inside that restaurant. ++++ March 17, 2006 Third Denny's shooting occurs in California Latest fatal shooting occurred at Denny...

Police say three dead, two wounded in restaurant shooting 2:20 p.m. March 15, 2006 PISMO BEACH – A gunman opened fire inside a crowded Denny's restaurant during lunch hour Wednesday, killing two people and wounding two before taking his own life, police said. “There could have been 30 or 40 people inside. As the shootings occurred, people were fleeing the restaurant, hiding in bathrooms,” Cmdr. Jeff Norton said. Police said they did not know the motive for the shootings. Police Chief Joe Cortez said authorities have not found any connection between the gunman and the victims and it doesn't appear he had a grudge against Denny's or its employees. He said the man began shooting within a few steps of the restaurant's front door. “The witnesses described him as coming in with a dazed look on his face, then they said he started shooting,” Cortez said. The names of the gunman and the victims were not immediately released. Nor was the condition of the wounded. Cindy Tabelin of...

CNN News is noting the following. Their article, "Nine dead in Japan 'group suicide'," for Friday, March 10, 2006, reads in part: TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- Japanese police are investigating two separate cases of suspected group suicide after nine people were found dead in parked cars, the latest in a series of such cases. Five men and one woman were found dead in a station wagon in Saitama prefecture, just north of Tokyo, a police spokesman said. He noted that charcoal stoves were found in the car but declined to give further details, citing ongoing investigations. The charcoal generates carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas. Separately, a man and two women were found dead in a sealed car parked in the foothills of a mountain in Aomori prefecture, some 570 km (280 miles) north of Tokyo, a police spokesman said. In this case too, charcoal stoves were found in the car with the three, who were undergoing treatment for mental illness and may have met at hospital, an Aomori pol...

According to the BBC News article, "Iranian in US campus 'car attack'" published on Sunday, 5 March 2006, we learn, in part: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ An Iranian student has been charged with attempting to murder nine people with a car in the US to "avenge the deaths of Muslims", he told police. Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, drove a rented Jeep into a crowd at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Friday, police said. Mr Taheri-azar, a graduate of the university, then called police to surrender, officers said. No-one was seriously hurt in the incident, which the FBI is probing. Cartoons Mr Taheri-azar has been charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to cause bodily injury. Police said he drove the Jeep Cherokee into a pedestrian plaza close to two libraries and the student union block at the centre of the campus. Derek Poarch, chief of the university's police department, told ...