The teenager who committed multiple murders on a Minnesota Indian reservation Monday apparently held neo-Nazi beliefs. A person who identified himself as Jeff Weise, who killed nine people before shooting himself, had expressed admiration for Hitler in a chat room hosted by Nazi.org, the Web site of a neo-Nazi party, according to media reports.
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