Fresh details of school shooting

TEENAGE gunman Jeff Weise fired 45 times during his rampage through the halls of a Minneapolis high school, killing all seven of his victims in just three minutes.

New details of the worst school shooting since Columbine show the entire length of the shooting spree was only nine minutes. After the killings, Weise wandered through Red Lake High School, firing at random, wounding some other students.

Investigators poring through Weise’s personal journal and emails determined that he planned last month’s attack in advance.

But authorities refused to answer whether other people knew of or helped plan the attack.

Weise, 16, killed five students, a teacher, and an unarmed security guard at the Red Lake Chippewa Tribe Indian reservation school after killing his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend at their home. He later killed himself.

Weise’s grandfather was a tribal police officer, and Weise took his police-issued shotgun and semi-automatic pistol to the school and wore his bulletproof vest. He arrived at 2.49pm.

“Within seconds, he was approached by security guard Derrick Brun, and Weise shot Brun just inside the entrance to the school,” said FBI agent Michael Tabman.

“At 2.51pm, Weise entered the classroom where he committed the murder of the teacher and the students.”

Attorney Tom Heffelfinger Heffelfinger said authorities had no evidence Weise targeted any of his victims.

Despite the bulletproof vest, police officers who responded to the school wounded Weise three times - in the lower back, leg, and right arm - at 2.57pm. Weise retreated to the classroom where he had killed six other people, and shot himself at 2.58pm.