On This Day: Northern Illinois University shooting

A year ago today, The Northern Illinois University shooting was an incident that took place, during which a gunman, Steven Phillip Kazmierczak, shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, killing six (including himself) and wounding eighteen.

He was apparently an outstanding student who reportedly stopped taking his medication at the time. He was twenty seven when this all occured

A story published by Esquire stated that he allegedly had a history of mental illness, was bullied in high school (he attended Elk Grove High School), and had shown an interest in previous school shootings, particularly those that occurred at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech.

On This Day: Northern Illinois University shooting