Kip Kinkel, his face smeared with blood, was led away by police from the cafeteria where he began shooting yesterday as about 300 terrified Thurston high school students scrambled for cover.

Kinkel had finished firing off one weapon and was reaching for another when he was tackled by one of the school's top wrestlers who had been injured. .``He looked at us and said, just kill me. Kill me now,'' one of the students who helped to wrestle Kinkel down told a local television station.