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- Category:
- Common Interest - Current Events
- Description:
- This is a group to remember, pray for, and support all those who are students, faculty, and family members of Northern Illinois University, including the victims of this tragedy.
On February 14, we are all Huskies at heart.
Created on Valentine's Day, Februrary 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm CST. - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
Pray for Northern Illinois University Students and Families
JoinBasic Info
- Name:
- Pray for Northern Illinois University Students and Families
- Category:
- Common Interest - Current Events
- Description:
- This is a group to remember, pray for, and support all those who are students, faculty, and family members of Northern Illinois University, including the victims of this tragedy.
On February 14, we are all Huskies at heart.
Created on Valentine's Day, Februrary 14, 2008 at 4:28 pm CST. - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
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- DeKalb, IL
Recent News
- News:
- On February 14, 2008 just after 3:00pm, a lone unknown gunman entered into a Introduction to Oceanography class in Cole hall near the center of the campus and began shooting with two handguns and one shotgun. While on his rampage the shooter shot a total of 21 people, hospitalizing 16 with gunshot wounds, and killing 5. The death toll has risen to 6 now, including the killer. 5 Students were killed and all 5 students have been identified.
Eyewitnesses described hearing a door to the right rear of the stage slam open and seeing the gunman, wearing a knit cap and sweat shirt, wielding a shotgun. He stayed within 10 feet of the door and started shooting—first with the shotgun and then with the handguns. Witnesses also say that he shot randomly into the crowd and that it didn't look like he was aiming at anyone in particular (Chicago Tribune).
The gunman has been identified as Stephen Kazmierczak. It has been confirmed that he was not a student at the university at the time. He was a graduate of NIU that majored in Sociology.
While attending the college, Kazmierczak was honored and awarded with a dean's award for his work in sociology. It was confirmed that he was attending graduate school at University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign; the same town where he purchased his weapons.
Vigils have been gathering together all over the country to pray for the victims ans their families.
There are several hotlines that are available to anyone who wants to know the current situation of the college.
815-753-1573
815-753-1574
815-753-1575
815-753-6143
815-753-6257
815-753-9564
Continue to pray for the families. I will continue to update the information as it comes in.
Hear is a list of the names of the identified victims. Please pray for their families as they, along with everyone else at NIU, deal with this horrific tragedy.
Daniel Parmenter, age 20, of Westchester, Ill.
Catalina Garcia, age 20, of Cicero, Ill.
Ryanne Mace, age 19, of Carpentersville, Ill.
Julianna Gehant (pronounced Ghee-hant), age 32, of Mendota, Ill.
Gayle Dubowski, age 20, of Carol Stream, Ill.
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10/4/09 - The first 500 posts in a row are all spam. I'm disabling the wall for the time being until this can get cleaned up. Sorry.
9/6/09 - I have re-enabled the wall and photos, but will not be re-enabling links.
7/15/09 - Links, Pictures, and Wall disabled due to spamming. Discussion board will be closed as well if spam keeps up, sorry.
2/22/08: Since the growth of this group has slowed down a bit, I have been able to add a few more group administrators. There are now a total of six admins who you can go to if you have any questions at all about the group. Please feel free to contact anyone of them if you come across something that you think may be questionable. Thank you for all your overwhelming support for this group!
-Jim Combs
2/18/08: I have re-enabled the discussion board. I had to disable them due to the constant spamming. From now on, anyone who posts anything that is not related to what happened, i.e. - sexy dating tips, will be reported, their dicussion removed, and that person will be immediately banned from the group. I am sorry to have to go to such measures but I removed over 20 of those discussions. Thank you for your cooperation while discussions were down.
2/16/08: Because of constant spamming and advertising, the group's Discussion Board has been disabled. I have disabled it only for the time being so that I can thoroughly go through all the discussions and clean them up. The discussion board will be put back up at a later time. Thank you for your cooperation.
-Jim Combs