THE investigation of a shooting spree that left nine people and the gunman dead on a Minnesota Indian reservation took a new turn when a source familiar with the probe said the tribal chairman's teenage son was arrested.

WITH the bang of a drum and a high-pitched wail, the first funerals began for victims of a teenager’s shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where 10 people died.

A SCHOOL shooting survivor in the US said yesterday the gunman aimed with “a mean face” as he shot fellow students, killing five among his nine victims.

THE suspect in the worst US school massacre since Columbine smiled and waved as he gunned down five students, a teacher and a guard, asking one of his victims whether he believed in God, witnesses said.