DEKALB, Ill. - The man who killed five students and then himself in a Valentine’s Day massacre in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall described himself as an earnest student who worked hard for social justice.
His work on prison issues had drawn notice in academic circles, according to published reports. And he had once helped teach a class in Cole Hall, the scene of Thursday’s tragedy, according to old documents on the Northern Illinois University Web site.
But Steven Kazmierczak, who peered from many U.S. news Web sites and TV screens with an impish grin on Friday morning, was also the “last person in the world” his friends would have expected to go on a deadly shooting spree, one of his professors said Friday in an e-mail.
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His work on prison issues had drawn notice in academic circles, according to published reports. And he had once helped teach a class in Cole Hall, the scene of Thursday’s tragedy, according to old documents on the Northern Illinois University Web site.
But Steven Kazmierczak, who peered from many U.S. news Web sites and TV screens with an impish grin on Friday morning, was also the “last person in the world” his friends would have expected to go on a deadly shooting spree, one of his professors said Friday in an e-mail.
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