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.

THE teenager who shot five schoolmates to death had watched a movie about a school shooting with friends earlier this month — skipping ahead to some of the most violent scenes, a friend said yesterday.

Gifts of money, e-mails with condolences and offers of counselling services flooded an Indian tribe in Minnesota as it prepared for the funerals of nine victims of a school shooting.

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.

A rookie security guard who survived the Minnesota school shooting rampage described a frenzied scramble to get pupils out of harm’s way – and said a fellow guard saved lives by sacrificing his own.

TEENAGE gunman Jeff Weise drove a stolen police car to his school and then randomly shot at students and teachers, authorities said as the town of Red Lake grieved for the victims of the latest rampage to stun the US.

HE created comic books with ghastly drawings of people shooting each other and wrote stories about zombies.

Authorities were today trying to determine what caused a teenager to gun down his grandfather, put on the man’s police-issue belt and bullet-proof vest, and drive his marked squad car to a high school, where he began shooting his classmates at will.

A STUDENT who killed nine people and himself on a Minnesota Indian reservation identified himself as an “angel of death” and a “NativeNazi” on internet postings, a US newspaper reported yesterday.

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.

A neo-Nazi teenager who called himself the Angel of Death killed his grandfather and then stole his weapons and police car before embarking on a bloody shooting spree at a United States school, it emerged tonight.

A neo-Nazi teenager who called himself the Angel of Death went on a shooting rampage on a remote US Indian reservation yesterday, killing his grandparents and then seven people at his school, grinning and waving as he fired.

The teenager who went on a shooting rampage on a remote US Indian reservation yesterday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, was a neo-Nazi.