Angel of Death: Student kills nine in shooting rampage

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.

Officials sealed off the remote town of Red Lake, 60 miles south of Canada while they investigated Monday's bloodbath, the worst US school shooting since the 1999 Columbine massacre.

Floyd Jourdain Jr, chairman of the Red Lake Indian council, said the tragedy was a dark day for the tribe.