Police have yet to uncover a motive. [Stephen] Kazmierczak was an NIU graduate student in sociology in the spring of 2007, but was not currently enrolled, according to a release on the school's Web site.

The Chicago Tribune reported that the school honored the gunman two years ago for his research on the U.S. prison system. The research included a study of self-inflicted wounds among prisoners.

"He was an outstanding student. An awarded student," said NIU Police Chief Donald Grady. "Those he had communication with felt he was a very good student and a fairly normal, unstressed person."

Grady said that Kazmierczak was a graduate student in social work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kazmierczak was taking some kind of medication, Grady said, but declined to name the drug or provide other details.

"He had stopped taking medication and become somewhat erratic in the last couple of weeks," Grady said.

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When's the medication going to be named? Who has the police chief chosen to serve and protect, and who to put in danger?

Eat or stop eating yer Prozac, Paxil, or Zoloft, and have uncontrollable urge to commmit suicide and mass murder?

Lilly fights journal article on Prozac
By Barry Meier
Published: TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005

Last year was an especially bad one for the pharmaceutical industry, which experienced controversies over how drug studies are disclosed and the implosion of the painkiller Vioxx.

Now, as a result of the recent publication of an article about the antidepressant Prozac, it appears that the staid, usually methodical world of medical journals could suffer its own black eye.

On New Year's Day, BMJ, a British medical journal, published a news article suggesting that "missing" documents from a decade-old lawsuit indicated that Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, had minimized data about the drug's risks of causing suicidal or violent behavior.

The article's appearance came shortly after a controversy erupted over whether drug makers had adequately disclosed the risks that antidepressants posed to pediatric patients. Meanwhile, Christopher Pittman, a teenager from South Carolina, is facing trial for murder as an adult on charges that he killed his grandparents when he was 12. Pittman has acknowledged the crime, but his lawyers contend that he became violent after taking Zoloft, an antidepressant similar to Prozac. . . .

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