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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A teen accused in connection with school shootings that left 10 people dead on an Indian reservation will be tried behind closed doors, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Louis Jourdain, 17, will be tried in juvenile court after the ruling by Judge Donovan Frank, who wrote that "the interest in rehabilitation and avoiding stigma ... outweighs the interest of the public in full access to the proceedings."
Jourdain was charged after the March 21 shootings at Red Lake High School on an Indian reservation in northwestern Minnesota. He was a friend of 16-year-old Jeff Weise, who shot and killed nine people, five of them fellow students, before killing himself. Jourdain is also the son of Floyd Jourdain Jr., the tribal chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa.
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