Juvenile arrested in Minnesota shootings
Teenager is son of tribal chairman, source tells AP
(CNN) -- A juvenile has been arrested in connection with last week's school shootings in Red Lake, Minnesota, authorities said Monday.
The office of the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, Tom Heffelfinger, gave no further details about the arrest.
It did not say what charge the juvenile was arrested on or if the juvenile lived on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where the shootings occurred.
A law enforcement source told The Associated Press the juvenile was Louis Jourdain, the son of Floyd Jourdain Jr., chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.
According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Jourdain was arrested Sunday as part of an investigation into a potentially wider plot.
Ten people were killed in the March 21 rampage.
Authorities said 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and the older man's girlfriend at their home, before going to Red Lake High School and killing seven people and himself.
It was the nation's worst school shooting since two students killed 12 classmates, a teacher and themselves at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in April 1999. (Full story)
About 5,000 members live on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, home to the Ojibwa, or Chippewa, tribe. The shootings shocked the tight-knit community.
The grandfather, Daryl Lussier, 58, and his girlfriend, Michelle Sigana, 32, died at home after being shot with a .22-caliber handgun, the FBI agent Michael Tabman said last week.
Lussier was a tribal police sergeant, Tabman said. Weise took Lussier's .40-caliber handgun, a .12-gauge shotgun, a flak jacket and his police car, and drove to the high school.
Tabman said Weise killed unarmed security guard Derrick Brun, 28, at the school. The boy then chased a teacher and students into a classroom before opening fire. The teacher, Neva Rogers, 62, was killed.
Five students were killed at the school before Weise shot himself in the head, police said. Seven others were wounded, including two who were shot in the head.
Authorities have declined to speculate publicly on possible motives for the attack.
Weise kept largely to himself and often didn't make eye contact with others in the halls, students said.
They said he was the target of teasing and produced "messed-up" drawings of "people dying" and Nazi swastikas.
Among the leads authorities were following were postings attributed to Weise on a neo-Nazi Internet site. The postings professed admiration for Adolf Hitler and decried interracial mixing on the reservation.
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Associated Press contributed to this report.
