Red Lake, Minnesota

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There is also a Red Lake County in Minnesota.

Red Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) within the Lower Red Lake unorganized territory located in Beltrami County, Minnesota, USA. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 1,430. It is part of the Red Lake Indian Reservation.

The United States Census Bureau uses the CDP designation as a reporting mechanism to provide area and population values for a more densely settled community within the much larger, and less populated territory. The values reported here are included in the aggregate numbers reported for the territory as a whole. See: Lower Red Lake, Minnesota.

Red Lake became known internationally due to the Red Lake High School massacre on March 21, 2005 in which high school student Jeff Weise killed 9 people and injured 14 others before committing suicide.

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Main article: Red Lake High School massacre

On 21 March 2005 Jeff Weise, a student at Red Lake High School, shot dead 9 people, including himself, and injured several more. This was the most devastating U.S. school shooting since the Columbine High School massacre wherein Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people and injured 23 others.