Teen arrested in Minnesota shooting

RED LAKE, Minn. -- The chairman of the Red Lake band of Chippewa confirmed Monday that his son was arrested in connection with last week's deadly school shootings but maintained that the teen is innocent.\n"My heart is heavy as a result of the tragic events that unfolded here at our nation," Floyd Jourdain Jr. said in a statement. "But it is with optimism that I state my son Louis' innocence. He is a good boy with a good heart who never harmed anyone in his entire life.\n"I know my son, and he is incapable of committing such an act," Jourdain said.\nThe younger Jourdain, who is 16 or 17, was arrested Sunday by federal authorities.\nFederal authorities had announced an unidentified juvenile's arrest Monday, and a law enforcement source speaking on condition of anonymity had identified the boy to The Associated Press as Louis Jourdain. The source said the arrest was part of an investigation into a potentially wider plot.\n"I have been notified by the federal government that there is a juvenile court proceeding pending which, therefore, will not allow me to comment further," Floyd Jourdain said.\nJeff Weise, 16, killed nine people in an attack on the reservation March 21 before taking his own life. Five of the dead were students, who were killed at the high school. It was the worst U.S. school shooting since the attacks by a pair of students at Columbine High in Colorado.