Thurlene Marie Stillday, age 15

Lost to gun violence on March 21, 2005 in Red Lake, Minnesota.

Red Lake shootings: 16-year-old student Jeff Weise, killed his grandfather and grandfather's companion at their home, where he had been living, at the Red Lake Indian Reservation. He then drove to Red Lake Senior High School. Armed with his grandfather's police weapons, Weise killed five students, one teacher and one security guard, wounding seven others, before entering a gunfight with police officers, that resulted in him committing suicide.

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