2nd student fatality after school shooting
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February 29, 2012, Wednesday
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A STUDENT wounded in a school shooting in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, has died, authorities said yesterday, a day after one student was killed and three others injured when a teenager opened fire in the high school cafeteria.
Police Chief Tim McKenna confirmed that a second student had died, saying 17-year-old Russell King Jr had "passed." Earlier reports said he was brain dead.
King, 17, was one of five students hit when a suspect, identified by a family lawyer as TJ Lane, began shooting at Chardon High School on Monday morning. Student Daniel Parmertor died hours after the shooting.
A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that the gunman targeted a group of students sitting together and that the one who was killed was gunned down while trying to duck under the cafeteria table.
Lane's family is mourning "this terrible loss for their community," attorney Robert Farnacci said in a statement.
FBI officials would not comment on a motive. And Police Chief Tim McKenna said authorities "have a lot of homework to do yet" in their investigation of the shooting at the start of the school day at 1,100-student Chardon High.
An education official said the suspected shooter is a Lake Academy student, not a student at Chardon High. Students may have been referred to the alternative school because of academic or behavioral problems.
The FBI said the suspect was arrested near his car one kilometer from Chardon. He was not immediately charged.
Teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear in this town of 5,100 people, 50 kilometers from Cleveland. One teacher was said to have dragged a wounded student into his classroom to protect him. Another chased the gunman out of the building, police said.
Fifteen-year-old Danny Komertz, who witnessed the shooting, said Lane was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied. But others disputed that. "Even though he was quiet, he still had friends," said Tyler Lillash, 16. "He was not bullied."
Two of the wounded were listed in critical condition, and another was in serious condition.
Classes will fully resume on Friday in the US school district where a student is accused of opening fire in a cafeteria, killing two students and wounding three others, authorities said.
A juvenile court hearing for suspect TJ Lane is set for yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Cleveland suburb is trying to heal by offering grief counseling to students, staff and others at area schools, officials said.
"We're not just any old place, Chardon," Superintendent Joseph Bergant II said. "This is every place. As you've seen in the past, this can happen anywhere, proof of what we had yesterday."
Police Chief Tim McKenna confirmed that a second student had died, saying 17-year-old Russell King Jr had "passed." Earlier reports said he was brain dead.
King, 17, was one of five students hit when a suspect, identified by a family lawyer as TJ Lane, began shooting at Chardon High School on Monday morning. Student Daniel Parmertor died hours after the shooting.
A student who saw the attack up close said it appeared that the gunman targeted a group of students sitting together and that the one who was killed was gunned down while trying to duck under the cafeteria table.
Lane's family is mourning "this terrible loss for their community," attorney Robert Farnacci said in a statement.
FBI officials would not comment on a motive. And Police Chief Tim McKenna said authorities "have a lot of homework to do yet" in their investigation of the shooting at the start of the school day at 1,100-student Chardon High.
An education official said the suspected shooter is a Lake Academy student, not a student at Chardon High. Students may have been referred to the alternative school because of academic or behavioral problems.
The FBI said the suspect was arrested near his car one kilometer from Chardon. He was not immediately charged.
Teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear in this town of 5,100 people, 50 kilometers from Cleveland. One teacher was said to have dragged a wounded student into his classroom to protect him. Another chased the gunman out of the building, police said.
Fifteen-year-old Danny Komertz, who witnessed the shooting, said Lane was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied. But others disputed that. "Even though he was quiet, he still had friends," said Tyler Lillash, 16. "He was not bullied."
Two of the wounded were listed in critical condition, and another was in serious condition.
Classes will fully resume on Friday in the US school district where a student is accused of opening fire in a cafeteria, killing two students and wounding three others, authorities said.
A juvenile court hearing for suspect TJ Lane is set for yesterday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Cleveland suburb is trying to heal by offering grief counseling to students, staff and others at area schools, officials said.
"We're not just any old place, Chardon," Superintendent Joseph Bergant II said. "This is every place. As you've seen in the past, this can happen anywhere, proof of what we had yesterday."
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