NIU Shooter "Outstanding" but "Disturbed"

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) - Authorities are describing the gunman who
killed five students at Northern Illinois University yesterday as
both an "outstanding" student and a "disturbed individual."
Police say Stephen Kazmierczak carried a
shotgun hidden in a guitar case and three handguns onto the campus.
They say he bought the weapons legally and had a valid Firearm
Owner's Identification Card required of all Illinois residents who
own guns.
Campus police say Kazmierczak "had stopped taking medication
and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks." But they
declined to provide details.
In Lakeland, Florida, the gunman's father briefly came to the
door of his home and asked reporters to leave him alone. Saying
"this is a very hard time," Robert Kazmierczak said he would make
no statements, then broke down in tears.