NIU Shooting

Rescue workers evacuate a victim of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. A man dressed in black opened fire with a shotgun from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University on Thursday before he killed himself, the school's president said.

Steven Kazmierczak, 27, was identified by authorities as the gunman who killed five people and wounded at least 15 others at Northern Illinois University before committing suicide. Kazmierczak, who had been a student at Northern Illinois, was most recently enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Illinois. Police said Kazmierczak had become erratic after he had stopped taking some kind of medication recently.

An apparent shooting victim is treated for injuries on the Northern Illinois University campus Thursday afternoon Feb. 14, 2008.

Rescue workers carry an unidentified victim from the scene of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

A parking lot near Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University became a staging area for emergency personnel who responded to a shooting at the DeKalb campus, Thursday Feb. 14, 2008.

Students are tended to outside of Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University Thursday,Feb. 14, 2008

A police officer stands at the scene of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

Students are tended to outside of Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University after a shooting at the college, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

Students wait in DuSable Hall at Northern Illinois University, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

A man grieves outside the scene of a shooting at a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

An officer, right, leads a female from Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

A DeKalb firefighter rushes across a parking lot near Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

Northern Illinois University students try to make phone calls outside Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

A Illinois State Trooper stands guard at a Northern Illinois University intersection near the lecture hall where a lone gunman shot and killed five in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

A law enforcement officer stands guard outside a Northern Illinois University building where a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall in DeKalb, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008.

Deborah L. Pierce, Associate Provost for Northern Illinois University (left) reacts to news that seven people, including a gunman, had died during the shootings at the university Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 in Dekalb. At right is Mollie Montgomery who also works in the provost office.

Northern Illinois University students from left: Sarah Payton of Hampshire, 21, Christina Kouyoumdzoglou of Athens, Greece, 21, Brianna Tyler of Park Forest, Ill., 20, Linda Alberty of Dekalb and Jaime Borda of Hoffman Estates take part in a prayer vigil Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008 at Central Park in Dekalb.

Fraternity and sorority members of Northern Illinois University participate in a candlelight vigil for Dan Parmenter early Friday morning Feb. 15, 2008 in DeKalb, Ill.

Sorority and fraternity members of Northern Illinois University participate in a candlelight vigil early Friday Feb. 15, 2008 for Dan Parmenter - one of the victims of the NIU shooting in DeKalb, Ill.

Sorority members of Northern Illinois University participate in a candlelight vigil for Dan Parmenter, early Friday, Feb. 15, 2008.