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On Feb 28, 10:46 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Get rid of the guns and stop the gun violence! -T
>
> Student Declared Brain Dead After Ohio Shooting
>
> David Maxwell/European Pressphoto Agency
> Samantha Kimball consoled her younger brother Daniel after a fatal
> shooting at a high school in Chardon, Ohio.
>
> By SABRINA TAVERNISE and JESS BIDGOOD
> Published: February 28, 2012
> An Ohio State Police helicopter landing at Chardon High School on
> Monday as students and parents left the campus. A 16-year-old junior
> was shot and killed.
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> The Associated Press reported that Hugh Shannon, administrator at the
> Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office, said officials there
> received the word early Tuesday about the student Russell King Jr.
> Another student died Monday and three others were injured.
>
> "The cause and manner of death of this case are under ongoing
> investigation and will be released upon completion," Mr. Shannon said
> in a statement to The Associated Press.
>
> Here in Chardon on Tuesday, a lone flag flew at half-staff outside the
> two-story yellow brick high school building. Several small bouquets of
> flowers in plastic were placed near an entrance to the high school,
> near a sign that read, "Keep our students in your thoughts and
> prayers."
>
> The school was closed, its parking lot largely empty and its doors
> locked. A near complete silence had settled over the area. Across the
> street at Maple Elementary school, grief counselors were on duty.
>
> The local police in Chardon, a town of 5,000, said they had
> apprehended a teenage suspect on Monday afternoon, but Tim McKenna,
> the police chief, said they could not identify him publicly because he
> was a juvenile.
>
> But the family of T. J. Lane, a sophomore who is being held as a
> suspect, made his identity public on Monday night when they issued a
> statement through a lawyer on WKYC-TV in Cleveland. In the statement,
> the Lane family said that they were devastated by the news and that
> they wanted "to extend their heartfelt and sincere condolences" to the
> victims and their families.
>
> Mr. Lane's family was not speaking to the media on Tuesday morning. On
> a wooded road in Chardon Township, a large wooden house with brown and
> green trim that was listed as belonging to the Mr. Lane's
> grandparents, was dark and silent.
>
> A young man who appeared to be in his 20s got out of his car in the
> driveway but did not identify himself; he told a reporter that Mr.
> Lane's family had no information.
>
> "We don't know any more than the police and the F.B.I.," the man said,
> before driving away.
>
> T. J. is a student at Lake Academy, an alternative high school for
> troubled students. "By all accounts, T. J. is a fairly quiet and a
> good kid," said Robert N. Farinacci, the Lanes' lawyer, who noted that
> T. J. had never been in trouble before.
>
> Students at Chardon High School said they heard screams around 7:40
> a.m., the time the authorities said the shooting took place, and
> described spreading panic as teachers locked down classrooms and
> students started sending text messages to friends. One teacher was
> said to have dragged a wounded student into his classroom for
> protection.
>
> "I saw two girls running away screaming, and I heard an administrator
> come on saying we're in lockdown," said Brady Lawrence, 17, a senior
> who was in his English class, near the cafeteria, when the shooting
> began.
>
> The classroom collapsed in confusion, he said in an interview, as
> students tried to figure out the gunman's location. "We just didn't
> know where he was," he said. "They were saying he was loose, and we
> were scared."
>
> The authorities identified the dead student as Daniel Parmertor, a
> 16-year-old junior. They said one student was in critical condition,
> while two others appeared to be stable.
>
> According to The Associated Press, Daniel, an aspiring computer
> repairman, was shot while waiting in the cafeteria for a bus for his
> daily 15-minute ride to a vocational center. "We are shocked by this
> senseless tragedy," his family said in a statement. "Danny was a
> bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him. The family is
> torn by this loss."
>
> Danny Komertz, a student, told The Associated Press that the gunman
> appeared to have focused on a group of students. "I looked up and this
> kid was pointing a gun about 10 feet away from me to a group of four
> kids sitting at a table," he said.
>
> Brady Lawrence, from the English class, said students tried to call
> their friends and families but the network was overloaded. He said
> Daniel Parmertor was his neighbor. "I feel so bad for the family,"
> Brady said. "They're good people. I'm still kind of in shock. I really
> can't believe he's dead right now."
>
> WTAM-AM, a news radio station in Cleveland, bumped Rush Limbaugh's
> program on Monday, giving the local host Mike Trivisonno seven hours
> to discuss the shootings. Mr. Trivisonno said callers were lined up
> all day, with listeners weighing in on the roles that bullying, social
> media, gun laws and parenting might have played in the shooting.
>
> "It can happen anywhere, and does," Mr. Trivisonno said on the air in
> response to a caller who wondered if a divide between the area's rural
> and suburban populations might have contributed to the shootings. "It
> can happen anywhere."
>
> Jennifer Preston contributed reporting from New York.
>
> More:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/victim-in-ohio-school-shooting-d...
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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