Steven Kazmierczak

    The 27-year-old is officially named the gunman in yesterday's shooting at Northern Illinois University.

    Police announced the name of the shooter at a press conference today. Kazmierczak killed five people before killing himself, and had reportedly recently gone off his medication.

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