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CAZENOVIA, Wisconsin (AP) -- A teenager who pried open his family's gun cabinet brought two weapons to his rural school Friday and shot the principal to death after a struggle with adults and other students, authorities said.

No one else was hurt.

Eric Hainstock, 15, was taken into custody and charged as an adult with murder, District Attorney Patricia Barrett said. (Watch Barrett explain the charges against the 15-year-old -- 1:49 )

Authorities said the teen had complained about being teased by other students and decided to confront teachers and the principal using a shotgun and handgun taken from his parents' bedroom. The shooting also came one day after Weston Schools Principal John Klang gave him a disciplinary warning for having tobacco, according to a criminal complaint.

Witnesses said Hainstock walked in with the shotgun before classes began. A custodian, teachers and students wrestled with him, but he broke through, took out the handgun and shot Klang three times, Sheriff Randy Stammen said.

The custodian said the teen was a special-education student who told him he was there to kill someone, but did not say who.

"He was calm, but he was on a mission," said Dave Thompson, 43, who also has two children at the school.

Sophomore Shelly Rupp, 16, described Hainstock as a freshman with few friends and said he was "just weird in the head."

"He always used to kid around about bringing things to school and hurting kids," she said at a gas station nearby where students and townspeople had gathered.

Thompson said Hainstock first pointed a shotgun in a teacher's face. Thompson grabbed the gun, but the student then appeared to be reaching for another weapon, so Thompson and the teacher took cover. Thompson ran into a kitchen to call 911.

Klang then confronted the gunman. After the shots were fired, the principal, who was wounded, somehow wrestled him to the ground and swept the gun away, the complaint said.

Klang, 49, was shot in the head, chest and leg, authorities said. He died hours later at a hospital in Madison.

Sheriff Randy Stammen praised Klang's swift action. "The heroics of the people involved in this can't be understated," he said.

Hainstock said a group of kids had teased him by calling him names and rubbing up against him, the complaint said, and that he felt teachers and the principal would not do anything about it.

The complaint also said Hainstock had told a friend a few days earlier that Klang would not "make it through homecoming," referring to festivities planned for the school's homecoming weekend.

On Thursday, the principal had given Hainstock a disciplinary warning for having tobacco on school grounds, which was likely to mean an in-school suspension.

One student told a local reporter that Hainstock had recently been suspended for throwing a stapler at a teacher and for throwing a chair at the principal.

"I never thought [he] was capable of shooting anybody," she said.

Hainstock could get life in prison if convicted of murder, Barrett, the district attorney, said. Wisconsin does not have the death penalty.

Detectives executed a search warrant at Hainstock's house late Friday, the sheriff said. The teen was scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday. It was unclear whether he had an attorney.

Children from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade attend the small school near Cazenovia, a community of about 300 people about 70 miles northwest of Madison.

Klang and his three children graduated from Weston Schools. He was once a teacher, then farmed for about 18 years before returning to teaching and taking over as principal in 2004, his father, Don Klang, said. The younger Klang was being groomed to take over as superintendent next year.

Laurie Rhea, 42, said the principal spent last weekend at the gas station washing cars for a homecoming fundraiser.

"All the kids just loved him," she said.

High school students were offered counseling after the shooting, authorities said. Younger students were bused home. The homecoming parade, football game and dance were canceled or postponed.

Weston High School also lost a student earlier Friday in a car accident, a school official said.

The shooting took place two days after a gunman took six students hostage in a Colorado high school and killed one of them before committing suicide

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He may be our first suicide sex predator. 53-year old Duane Roger Morrison sent a long and rambling letter to family members in advance of Thursday’s deadly, sick assault on the students of Colorado’s Platte Canyon High School.

The local sheriff Fred Wegener held a news briefing today during which he indicated that Morrison wanted to die, but before he did, he was going on a power trip that deeply wounded a community, even as he abused his hostages, and killed one of them.

"He wasn’t the same as my other kids," said his father, Bob Morrison, remembering the son who he has long been estranged from. Now, investigators are still trying to unravel the sick mystery behind this predator’s extraordinary attack on the Platte Canyon schoolgirls.

And more facts are emerging about the 53-year-old loser’s life.

The former employee of a haunted house, he was unemployed and living in his jeep just a half-mile from the school in which he would perpetrate his violent siege. Traumatized students remembered seeing the creep lurking nearby at around 10:45 a.m., looking angry as he sat alone in his jeep in the parking lot, scoping out the layout of the school.

Witnesses said he then left the vehicle, and was milling around dressed in a hooded sweatshirt in an obvious and awkward attempt to fit in with the teenage students.

"Given his height, given the way he was dressed, he was trying to blend in like a student," said Sheriff Wegener today.

At 11:30 a.m. the career petty criminal entered the high school, carrying a backpack filled, not with the bomb he later threatened to detonate, but bizarrely with sex toys.

But the experienced outdoorsman was also heavily armed with a semi-automatic pistol and a .357 revolver and briefly spoke to a 15-year-old student, before beginning his rampage.

She described Morrison methodically entering Room 206 "College Prep English," and closing the door.

It is important to note at this point that Cassidy Grigg, the 16-year old who yesterday told the nation that he had bravely refused to leave that classroom when ordered to do so by Morrison was lying and not even there.

But inside that classroom, the horror and fear were real enough. Morrison fired a warning shot and told the students, "If you don’t do what I say, I’ll shoot you," and ordered them all to face the wall. Morrison then tapped each one on the shoulder with his gun as he told them whether to go or stay.

Said a terrified student witness, "all of the boys, I believe, were released first from the class. It was only the girls that were held hostage."

So Morrison was alone in class 206 with 6 blonde schoolgirls.

It was 11:40 a.m, the school was in lockdown, the loudspeaker blaring, "We have a code white here!" as calls went out to 911.

With the school soon empty, except for the six captives, and the monster holding them, police made contact with Morrison. Cops say his demands were simple, just to "leave him alone" and "get out of here,” according to cops.

At 1:52: hostage Emily Keyes father sent her a text message — simple, yet desperate: "How are u?" Emily managed to get a heartbreaking message back. According to Sheriff Wegener, the "last text message to her family from Emily was, 'I love you guys'."

Morrison was not interested in negotiating, instead he set an ominous deadline of 4 p.m. "He just said something would happen at 4p.m. and because of that backpack that was in the room; what do I think is going to happen at 4, if he told us initially or throughout that that was a bomb?" said Wegener explaining why the SWAT team was sent in. Then, about once an hour, Morrison began releasing a hostage, each of whom told of the horror-taking place inside. "They were molested, they were all molested," said Wegener.

With the children being brazenly abused, cops felt they had no choice but to storm the class.

Morrison, barricaded behind a row of desks, and still using the 2 remaining teenagers as human shields, fired on the SWAT team. Emily Keys tried to run away, but Morrison shot her in the back of the head, before turning the gun on himself.

Emily key's family, friends and neighbors will say goodbye to the slain 16-year- old at a memorial service Saturday, with a private burial scheduled later in the day.

Now, as police paint a clearer picture of the deeply troubled pervert who killed her, you cannot help but wonder whether he may be a new breed of criminal?

We all know the deadly work of the suicide bomber who takes as many innocent victims as he can on his way out.

Duane Morrison may be the first suicide-sex predator. He knew when he invaded Platte Canyon high school that he wasn’t coming out alive. The fact he wanted to die is clear from the rambling suicide letter in, which he talks of the pain in his life. His pre-meditated desire to spread that pain by sexually violating his victims is clear from the contents of his knapsack, not bombs, but sex toys.

Before he died in a hail of bullets, he was hell-bent on fulfilling a sick obsession: assaulting, abusing and humiliating as many of the school’s prettiest girls as he could.

And in this age of copycats, my fear is that Morrison will not be the last suicide sex predator.

what is the world coming to? sigh.....

Another day....another time....another life.....

Student killed in Montreal shooting rampage

Updated Wed. Sep. 13 2006 11:28 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

A gunman with a Mohawk haircut and black clothing opened fire inside Montreal's Dawson College on Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding 19 others.

Police had earlier believed there were as many as four gunmen, as shots reportedly continued to be heard.

The 20-year-old female victim died in hospital from her wounds. Five people admitted to Montreal General Hospital remain in critical condition, four are listed in serious condition and two are stable.

"They are all young students, young adults, in their early 20s," Dr. Francoise Chagnon, director of professional services, told CTV Newsnet. Five are male and six female.

CTV's Jed Kahane said police received a call about the shooting just before 1 p.m. EDT. Gunfire erupted at 12:41 and continued for about 30 minutes.

A police officer outside the college saw the gunman enter the building, and police quickly arrived at the scene. The 25-year-old suspect was shot dead as he tried to leave the school.

Police have not identified the shooter, but a spokesman said he was armed with three weapons, likely including a semi-automatic rifle. He was also described as a young resident of Quebec.

Panicked students described a scene of chaos and violence, as people fled or hid from the shooter.

"He shot right at us. And when he shot at us we jumped and ran the other way," said student Ali Hussein. He added that one bullet struck a wall close to where he was standing.

Dawson College is located at the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal.

One student captured a cellphone video of police officers inside the school with their guns drawn, trying to talk to the gunman. Someone then shouts to evacuate the building.

Students told Kahane they saw someone roaming the halls with a gun, and heard at least 20 shots fired.

One student told Montreal radio station 940 News she was on the phone at the college's front entrance when she heard five gunshots and a window breaking. She walked into the hallway and was inches from the gunman.

"All of a sudden I turned around and saw a man dressed in black with a huge assault rifle," she said. "People didn't know what was going on ... they thought it was a joke."

The man ran into the corner of the cafeteria to hide from police, she said.

A number of officers surrounded the school with guns drawn, while others helped to evacuate students from inside the English-language CEGEP school which has about 10,000 students. Most are between the ages of 16 and 18.

Gary Clemence, a psychology teacher, said the college is "usually a really quiet, peaceful place. No problems, no knives, anything." 

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the shooting "cowardly" and a "senseless act of violence.

"On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and their loved ones, and to the students and staff of the college who are all victims of this terrible tragedy," Harper said in a statement.

Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay said Canadians should reach out to the victims.

"This is so tragic. How do we talk to the parents who are going through this? All I can say is that I feel for them, and I care for them," he told Newsnet.

Today's incident is horrifyingly reminiscent of another school shooting in Montreal. On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine killed 14 engineering students at the Ecole Polytechnique.

The mass murder prompted tighter gun laws, which included the creation of the controversial national firearms registry. It also prompted Parliament to create the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in 1991, to coincide with the anniversary of the tragedy.

During Wednesday's shooting, some students and teachers barricaded themselves in classrooms, waiting for police to rescue them.

As many as 40 students and staff hid on the seventh floor, including eyewitness Adam Perez, who spoke to CTV Newsnet.

"No one came to really warn us," said Perez. "Our first warning of the incident (came from) phone calls and text messages."

One student told 940 News she saw two people who had been shot, including one who had been hit in the neck. The student said a friend told her four people had been shot.

Michel Boyer, a student at the college, told CTV Newsnet he saw the gunman in a hallway leading to the cafeteria. 

"I saw the gunman who was dressed in black and at that time he was shooting at people. It was probably one of the most frightening moments of my life," he said. 

Images captured from a helicopter hovering over the scene showed hordes of students running frantically from the building.

A number of police vehicles surrounded what appeared to be a bloodsoaked sidewalk outside the school, and several yellow ambulance vehicles were seen speeding from the scene after victims were carried from the building on stretchers and loaded in the vehicles.

hmm........hmm........hmm..........time has surely passed on me.......

time passes.........time moves...........time evolves.............time is there...........

sigh........sad sad this week has been