Shooting suspect apparently posted messages on neo-Nazi site

The Associated Press

      MINNEAPOLIS - The teenager suspected in a shooting rampage on the Red Lake Indian Reservation may have posted messages on a neo-Nazi Web site expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler and calling himself the "Angel of Death."

      Several notes signed by a Jeff Weise, who identified himself as "a Native American from the Red Lake 'Indian' Reservation," were posted beginning last year on a Web site operated by the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party.

      The thread, entitled "Native American Nationalists," is no longer on the Web site, but a cached version is still stored by the search engine Google.

      "I guess I've always carried a natural admiration for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations. I also have a natural dis-like for communism," said one note which, like the others, contained spelling and typographical errors.

      "When I was growing up, I was taught (like others) that Nazi's were (are) evil and that Hitler was a very evil man ect... Of course, not for a second did I believe this. Upon reading up on his actions, the ideals and issues the German Third Reich adressed, I began to see how much of a lie had been painted about them. They truly were doing it for the better," the posting read.

      The poster who gave his name as Weise also went by the nickname "Todesengel," which is German for Angel of Death.

      In another posting, he wrote, "I'm being blamed for a threat on the school I attend because someone said they were going to shoot up the school on 4/20, Hitlers birthday, and just because I claim being a National Socialist, guess whom they've pinned?"

      In a subsequent posting, he wrote that he'd been cleared and was glad for it. "I dont much care for jail, Ive never been there and I dont plan on it," he wrote.

      "Once I commit myself to something, I stay until the end," an earlier posting said.

      In a different thread, "Todesengel" complained about race mixing on his reservation.

      "As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing there is barely any full blooded Natives left," he wrote. "Where I live less than 1% of all the people on the Reservation can speak their own language, and among the youth wanting to be black has run ramped. We have kids my age killing each other over things as simple as a fight, and it's because of the rap influence. Wannabe-gangsters everywhere, I cant go 5 feet without hearing someone blasting some rap song over their speakers."

      Relatives told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that Weise was a loner who usually wore black and was teased by other kids. Relatives told the newspaper his father committed suicide four years ago, and that his mother was living in a Minneapolis nursing home because she suffered brain injuries in a car accident.

      Weise had apparently spoken with friends about doing something at Red Lake High School, too.

      "His friends were saying that he was talking about doing something and joking around about it, and they didn't take him seriously," said Ashley Morrison, a junior.