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Jeffrey James "Jeff" Weise (August 8, 1988 – March 21, 2005) was a student at Red Lake Senior High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, located within the Red Lake Indian Reservation of the Ojibwe people. He is known for murdering nine people in a shooting spree on March 21, 2005. He killed his grandfather and his grandfather's companion before going to the reservation high school, where he murdered seven more people and wounded five others. He committed suicide before being captured by police. Before Weise was born, his young parents separated, and Jeff lived mostly with his father and grandparents. From the age of three, he lived with his mother in the Minneapolis area; she later had two more children and married their father. When Weise was nine, his birth father committed suicide on the reservation; when he was eleven, his mother suffered severe brain damage in a car accident and had to be admitted to a nursing home. Weise was taken from his stepfather in Minneapolis and placed in the custody of his father's family on the reservation. Weise lived primarily with his paternal grandmother and an aunt. Residents of the reservation have suffered high rates of unemployment and poverty, violence and suicide. Weise struggled in school due to frequent relocations, bullying, disruptions in his personal life and truancy. In May and June 2004, Weise tried twice to commit suicide and was briefly hospitalized. He was under treatment for depression, and had been prescribed Prozac as an anti-depressant. His case revived the public discussion about the use of Prozac for children and adolescents; the US Food and Drug Administration had published a warning about it in October 2004 as a factor in increased suicides and violence among youths. == Life == Jeffrey James Weise, called "Jeff," was born in 1988 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only child of 17-year-old Joanne Elizabeth Weise and 21-year-old Daryl "Baby Dash"〔 Allen Lussier, Jr.,〔(Jeffrey Weise, ''The Ojibwe News'' ) (March 25, 2005)〕〔(Kimberly Sevcik, "Reservation for Death" ), ''''Salon'''', 8 August 2005〕 an unmarried Ojibwe couple from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake, Minnesota. The Ojibwe permit only their tribal members to live on the reservation, which is located in northwest Minnesota 250 miles north of Minneapolis; it is one of two "closed" reservations in the country. The couple separated before the boy was born. In November 1988, Joanne's parents forced her to give up three-month-old Jeff to the care of his father, who lived with his parents and family in Red Lake.〔 In June 1991, when Jeff was nearly three years old, his mother Joanne reclaimed the boy. She took him to live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. He later claimed in online postings that his mother was alcoholic, and had physically and emotionally abused him.〔 In 1992, Joanne Weise began dating Timothy Troy DesJarlait. He allegedly also abused Jeff.〔(Blaine Harden and Dana Hedgpeth, "Minnesota Killer Chafed at Life On Reservation" ), ''Washington Post'', 25 March 2005, accessed 20 December 2012〕 After having two children: a daughter Daphne, born in 1995, and son Sebastian, born in 1997, the couple married on June 27, 1998.〔〔(MONICA DAVEY and JODI WILGOREN, "Signs of Danger Were Missed in Troubled Teenager's Life" ), ''New York Times,'' 24 March 2005, accessed 18 December 2012〕 In 1993, Weise's father "Baby Dash" Lussier married Roma Jean Ryan.〔"Obituary: Daryl Lussier, Jr.," ''The Pioneer,'' (Bemidji, Minnesota), 22 July 1997, p. 2〕 Lussier, Jr. had worked for a time at the Chippewa Trading Post on the reservation and as a logger.〔 On July 21, 1997, when Jeff was nine, his father committed suicide by shooting himself. He had been in a standoff with the Red Lake Police Department for some days in Red Lake.〔〔Davey, Monica. “Tribe Buries 3 on a Long Road to Healing,” March 26, 2005, ''The New York Times'', 26 March 2005〕 His father, Daryl "Dash" Lussier, Sr., a sergeant in the tribal police force, had tried to intervene but was unable to bring a peaceful end. On March 5, 1999, when Jeff was eleven, his mother was in a car accident, in which a tractor-trailer crashed into the car which her cousin, Elizabeth May Jourdain, was driving. The women had been drinking mid-day. Jourdain died in the accident and Joanne Weise suffered such severe brain damage that she had to be committed to a nursing home in Bloomington, Minnesota. She has been unable to live independently.〔〔 In 2000, Timothy DesJarlait separated from Joanne, and completed the divorce in May 2004. Their custody arrangements covered only the children they had together and not Jeff.〔Hanners, David. “Web postings show many sides to Weise,” ''Duluth News-Tribune,'' 26 March 2005, p. 1A.〕 Following his mother's accident, Jeff was placed in the custody and care of his paternal grandmother, Shelda (Gurneau) Lussier, on the Red Lake reservation. The boy had to leave Minneapolis, where he had lived for nearly nine years. His paternal aunts Shauna (also spelled Shawna in some accounts〔) and Tammy Lussier said they were also involved in his care;〔(Marisa Helms, "Shooting fuels debate over safety of Prozac for teens" ), Minnesota Public Radio, 25 March 2005, accessed 18 December 2012〕 one lived with her child at their mother's during this period.〔 Jeff's grandmother Shelda and her husband Daryl "Dash" Lussier, Sr. were separated. He shared a house with his companion Michele Sigana and their son. Jeff became close to each of his grandparents. By 2003, his mother had moved to an assisted-living facility; she had recovered enough from her accident to work part-time, and had regained speech. Weise chose to stay with his grandmother Shelda Lussier rather than rejoin his mother and move again.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeff Weise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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