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Then on April 19, 2004, posting on nazi.org Weise wrote that there was a suspected plot to shoot up his school the next day, the anniversary of Hitler's birth. "Just because I claim being a National Socialist, guess whom they've pinned?" And yet one can almost sense glee, in what he described on another site, at the commotion stirred up by the threat. "The feds were all around the place, watching, cop cars on nearly every corner around the school and a few large unmarked black vans sitting around. I bet they were on standby. So they WERE prepared for something to happen." School-district officials have so far refused to discuss their investigation of the incident.
Online, he also created two animated shorts. One shows a young man strangled by a demented clown. The other, "Target Practice," cuts quickly from a man decapitated by a gun blast, to a standing figure and a man on a park bench who are both shot through the chest, to a police car flipping over after a grenade is lobbed into it, to a Klansman and his pointy hood scalped by another shot, and finally to the marksman stuffing the muzzle of a pistol into his mouth, squeezing the trigger and turning the screen crimson. The credits roll, and Weise signs off under the name "Regret."
He did not discuss his father's suicide with his few friends, but he discussed the subject online. He argued about the courage in not only accepting death but also bringing about your own. Those who disagree about the virtue of suicide, he wrote, "have never dealt with people who HAVE faced the kind of pain that makes you [physically] sick at times, makes you so depressed you can't function, makes you so sad and overwhelmed with grief that eating a bullet or sticking your head in a noose [seems] welcoming." Months later, he wrote about slicing his wrist with a box cutter, "painting the floor of my bedroom with blood I shouldn't have spilt. After sitting there for what seemed like hours (which apparently was only minutes), I had the revelation that this was not the path." At least, not yet. He sought help and said he went on antidepressants (a friend later said they were Prozac). He wrote of drinking alcohol and blacking out. He claimed to use marijuana.
He also wrote of strange tingly feelings that woke him out of a sound sleep and dark visions of small creatures sitting by his bed that he would reach out to touch before falling unconscious. But whatever demon finally compelled Weise to act also made him plan his assault. First he needed an arsenal and armor. He had only a .22-cal. weapon. So he used it to kill his grandfather Daryl Lussier, who was separated from the grandmother Weise lived with. Lussier was a veteran sergeant with the Red Lake police department. After shooting Lussier and his girlfriend Michelle Sigana, Weise stole his grandfather's .40-cal. handgun and 12-gauge shotgun. He strapped on Lussier's bullet-proof vest and grabbed his grandfather's keys to the Red Lake police car parked in the driveway.