Trail of tears

School Shooting | Red Lake pastor prepares for yet another funeral at a deeply troubled reservation | Jamie Dean

Alicia White would have turned 15 next month. The ninth-grader at Red Lake High School who liked talking on the phone and going to church with her grandmother was looking forward to a summer youth group trip to Tennessee. Instead, Alicia will be buried next week, along with at least eight other victims of 16-year-old Jeff Weise.

Weise walked into Red Lake Indian Reservation's only high school on March 21 wearing his grandfather's gun belt and bulletproof vest. After gunning down a 28-year-old security guard, he killed five students and a teacher, and wounded 14 others. Ten minutes later, Weise killed himself. Authorities found the boy's grandfather, a longtime tribal police officer, and the man's girlfriend dead in the home they shared with Weise.