School killer's cartoon prediction

These are the chilling images drawn by US high school gunman Jeff Weise before he went on his killing spree.

The 16-year-old shot dead down nine people, including classmates, before turning the gun on himself in the worst school massacre since Columbine.

Today the images drawn by the young Nazi fanatic for an animated film were shown on American television - a terrifying insight into the mind of the assassin.

In the sequence, which he had posted on the internet, Weise drew a killer lighting a cigarette before using an assault rifle to randomly gun down targets in the street. He then blows up a police car with a grenade, shoots a hooded person and puts a gun into his own mouth.

Weise is thought to have mimicked his own animation, taking at least 10 minutes as he walked around Red Lake High School in Minnesota firing at random.

Having already killed both his grandparents, he gunned down five students, a teacher and a security guard - and seriously injured 14 others - before shooting himself in the head.

As his drawings were being broadcast, students and staff from the 300-strong school met for half a day for the first time since the shooting.

Full classes are not due to resume until next week, but school board member Kathryn Beaulieu explained that the teachers wanted the students to be able to see them. "They're like family," she said.

Meanwhile survivors spoke out about the horrific shooting spree.

Security guard LeeAnn Grant, 20, told how her murdered colleague Derrick Brun confronted the killer. "He bought me time to get that much farther away with the students," she said.

Family members of injured student Jeffrey

May, 15, told how he tried to protect two girls by stabbing Weise in the side with a pencil.

Weise shot him in the cheek and the bullet lodged in his neck.

Friends of Weise admitted he told them about his plans, which they dismissed as childish fantasy. Michelle Kingbird, a close friend, said: "He told me last year but I didn't believe him."