Hundreds mourn school shooting victims

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 lone man’s cry gave way to songs and more drumming from a circle of a dozen men on Saturday, and hundreds of people who had gathered in a community centre filed past a pair of open coffins.

Daryl Lussier, a 58-year-old tribal police officer, and his longtime companion Michelle Sigana, 31, were the first victims in last Monday’s attack by his grandson, Jeff Weise, 16.