Illinois college shooter stopped medication: police
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DEKALB, Illinois  - A man who killed five students and himself during a shooting spree at an Illinois college had stopped taking medication and become erratic in the last two weeks, buying two guns used in the bloodbath just six days ago, officials said on Friday.
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A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun and two handguns from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday, injuring as many as 18 people, four critically, before he killed himself, the school's president said.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 20--La Crosse police found about 55,000 rounds of ammunition, weapons, explosives and drugs inside the South Side house of a man arrested Friday night on felony weapon charges.
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By Anne Jungen, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 17--Police closed off several blocks on the city's South Side after illegal firearms and "potentially explosive" items were found while arresting a man at his East Avenue home Friday evening, authorities said.
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A gunman is reported to have opened fire on students at a university near Chicago in the United States.
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An informant cited in a search warrant as having purchased narcotics at an elderly Atlanta woman's house denies buying drugs there, authorities say. Undercover officers raiding the 88-year-old woman's house shot her to death after she fired on them while they broke down her door in a high-crime neighborhood. Federal prosecutors will investigate the case, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington has announced.
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The Seattle Police Department said on  Thursday that it would suspend use of pepper-ball guns to  control crowds after a college student was killed by one in  Boston last week when police broke up a crowd of rowdy baseball  fans.
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Investigators in this week's deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University took a laptop from a DeKalb motel room, the motel's manager said.
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A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage at a college in downtown Montreal today, wounding several students and sending hundreds of others fleeing for their lives. Police later reported that the shooter was "neutralized," either by police gunfire or suicide.
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Police closed off a hospital here after a shooting was reported inside the building Sunday.
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At least two people have been shot at Northern Illinois University outside Chicago, CNN affiliates are reporting. The reported gunman is dead, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The university has ordered its student body to seek shelter and canceled classes.
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Police identify a gunman who killed five at a university near Chicago as former student Steven Kazmierczak.
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Police arrested the prime suspect this morning in Monday&#39;s fatal shooting of a statehouse security guard. At 7:04 am, Springfield police officers arrested Derek W. Potts, 24, a
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A gunman dressed in black stepped from behind a curtain at the front of a large lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and shot 21 people, five of them fatally, before shooting and killing himself. "It was just complete chaos," said one witness. Students gathered hours later for a candlelight prayer vigil.
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By JAYETTE BOLINSKI STAFF WRITER  Employees at the Illinois State Police crime lab on Bruns Lane were evacuated Friday after someone broke a bottle of a hazardous chemical called acetonitrile.  Springfield firefighters were sent to the building about 3:20 p.m.
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Around the day of the shootings at Northern Illinois University, Jessica Baty was sent packages in the mail by her boyfriend, shooter Steven Kazmierczak. One contained a "goodbye" note and a new cell phone, the other had a holster and ammunition, Baty said in an exclusive interview with CNN.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. A man suspected of shooting an unarmed guard at the state Capitol is a former criminal justice student at the University of Illinois in Springfield.