identify the gunman or the brave student who tried to engage the shooter when his first gun jammed.

"It sounds like he tried to walk up and tell him, 'I'm not, this isn't what you want to do'," the sheriff said.

But the armed student wasn't swayed by those words and shot him.

"He then fired more rounds down the hallway, striking three more students and those students are in the hospital right now in serious condition," the sheriff said.

Knezovich did not go into detail about how the rampage at the school in the town of Rockford ended, but he credited "some fairly courageous action by a member of the Freeman School staff."

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Originally published in Libération, March 5, 2003. With thanks to Antoine de Baecque.

“What interests me is history, and politics only interests me to the degree that it is the mark history makes on the present.” The French release of Sans soleil and La Jetée on DVD is an event, as is every furtive apparition in the news by Chris Marker, one of the great cineastes of our time as well as one of the most private.

Marker, 81, has always preferred to allow his filmed images, rather than his image as a filmmaker, to speak for him. Less than a dozen photographs of Marker exist, and his interviews are even more rare. The director agreed to an interview with Libération via an email