NIU Shooter a U of I Student

By Margaret Lyons in News on Feb 15, 2008 2:23PM

Another wounded student has died, bringing the number of fatalities from yesterday's shooting at Norther Illinois University to 7. The gunman's identity will be announced at a news conference later this morning, but right now authorities have said he was a 27-year-old graduate student enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [Trib]