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Police: Illinois campus gunman reportedly off medication


  • NEW: Police chief: People close to gunman say he had become "erratic"

  • DEKALB, Illinois (CNN) -- Steven P. Kazmierczak, identified as the gunman in Thursday's shooting rampage at Northern Illinois University, was "an outstanding student" who reportedly stopped taking medication recently and became "somewhat erratic," the university's police chief said Friday.


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    Grady would not name the medication Kazmierczak had been using or the condition for which he was taking it.