March 29, 2005
Red Lake Update
(Filed under: Society)Amid news that a tribal leader's son has been arrested on charges of conspiracy in connection with the Red Lake shooting, there is some hopeful news.
A web site has been started by 16-year-old Andrew Motzko as a memorial to those killed. Motzko met the shooter, Jeff Weise, online last summer. The site includes detailed accounts, photos and resources for anyone depressed or grieving.
Author and humorist Garrison Keillor, in an essay about Easter, Terry Schiavo and the Red Lake shooting, said this about Weise:
Look at his words: "I have friends, but I'm basically a loner inside a group of loners. I'm excluded from anything and everything they do. I'm never invited. I don't even know why they consider me a friend or I them." Jeffrey Weise was sad, angry, sick, desperate, given to violent fantasy, but he was a person of perception: Those words "A loner inside a group of loners" and the construction of they/me and I/them mark him as a writer. Six feet tall, 250 pounds, black eye makeup, goth hair, lumbering around in a black floor-length coat, "different," but not so different that we can't recognize him as one of our own. ...So here we are at Easter. I can't speak for you but to me the gospel of the Lord is what makes this sad world of March comprehensible.
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at March 29, 2005 08:37 AM
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