Head of police at Northern Illinois University, Don Grady, said Kazmierczak had studied sociology there in 2007.

Chief Grady said it was not known why Kazmierczak - who was armed with three handguns and a shotgun - opened fire in a crowded lecture Police search for Chicago gunman ...
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Another 15 people were injured before Kazmierczak shot and killed himself.

It had been reported earlier that Kazmierczak had killed six students before committing suicide, but DeKalb County Coroner Rusty Miller has revised that figure, saying that five students, not six, were killed.

Mr Miller said there had been confusion about the status of a patient being treated in a different county.

Chief Grady said it was still unclear how many shots had been fired, but 48 bullet casings had been found as well as six shotgun shells.

He also praised the actions of the emergency services, saying police had been on the scene within minutes. "It was," he added, "an unfortunate set of circumstances that no-one could have predicted".

The university's president, John Peters, said there had been an outpouring of support from around the United States and the world following the attack.

Mr Peters said the police had also rehearsed for such an eventuality.

The shooting comes 10 months after 32 students and staff were shot by a student at Virginia Tech University in one of the worst shootings ever at a US school.

(BBC)

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