High School Shooting Left 'Friends Laying All Over the Place'.

• Cannibal wrote on 2012-02-28 04:16

  One student has died and four were wounded in a fusillade of bullets at Chardon High School Ohio this morning in an attack that left "friends laying all over the place" in puddles of blood.
  
  The gunman was identified as a student at the school by survivors of the shooting.
  Nate Mueller, a junior at the school, was having breakfast with three friends when he heard a loud pop like a firecracker about 7:45 .am., he told ABC News.
  
  A friend yelled, "Duck!" and Mueller turned to see the shooter standing by his table. Mueller said he saw the gunman take his second shot.
  
  Mueller said he saw one friend get hit. "He was over the table in a pool of blood," he said. Another pal "was on the floor in a puddle of blood next to him," Mueller said.
  
  A third friend "had not been hit yet as I jumped over him," Mueller said.
  
  Mueller got on the floor and was trying to crawl away when a shot rang out and he felt a bullet graze his ear. He was not badly injured, he said, with just a small red mark left on his ear.
  
  "It was terror. Everything had just gone tunnel vision, like, I need to get out of here," Mueller said. "You see glances of your friends laying all over the place. There's blood, there's people screaming, everybody's just running in different directions and you're just trying to get out. That's all you can do, get out of the school and not look back even though your friends are back there."
  
  Two students were taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Hospital and three were taken by helicopter to MetroHealth Hospital, according to WEWS.
  One student later died from the wounds.
  
  "There is one deceased student," Chardon Police Chief Tim McKenna said at a news conference. "That's the sad news for all of us today."
  
  Police have not officially identified the gunman, saying only that he has not yet been charged and that he is a juvenile.
  
  Mueller described the suspect as "a quiet kid. Freshman year he got into a 'Goth' phase and didn't talk to that many people anymore. He never egged anybody on. He just went about his business."
  The gunman opened fire with a handgun just before 8 a.m. in the school cafeteria where students were eating breakfast, authorities and witnesses said.
  
  The shooter was chased out of the building by a teacher and later turned himself in to a passerby, authorities said.
  
  The suspect is in custody at Geauga County Safety Center, according to ABC News' Cleveland affiliate WEWS.
  
  "Our prayers go out to the five victims and their families," a choked up School Superintendent Joseph Bergant said at news conference. "It's a horrible tragedy."
  
  Geauga County Sheriff Daniel McClelland praised the reaction to the shooting.
  "A prompt entry was made into the school. They went into the school and located the victims. It became readily apparent that the shooter had fled already," McClelland said. "The individual was apprehended some distance from the school and had fled on foot."
  
  The officer said police created a security perimeter to make sure the gunman could not return and a search, including a K-9 unit, was launched for the suspect.

  
  
  http://gma.yahoo.com/chardon-high-school-shooting-left-friends-laying-over-140607825--abc-news.html
  
  Sad, but at least only one person was killed. It definitely could have been worse.
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-28 04:24

  The shooter was chased out of the building by a teacher and later turned himself in to a passerby, authorities said.

  
  
  I wish there were more details on this. Even if it was just some kid with a handgun, the teacher must have been very brave.
• Cannibal wrote on 2012-02-28 04:55
  Here's a bit more information
  

  Parent Teresa Hunt told WEWS that she was texting with her daughter during the lockdown and her daughter said she heard five shots fired in the cafeteria about 7:30 a.m. Her daughter texted that students were scared and that four people had been shot.
  Chardon student Evan Erasmus told WEWS that a student had tweeted that he was going to bring a gun to school, but that no one took him seriously.
  The Chardon Fire Department was called to the school at about 7:45 a.m. in response to a report of "several people shot," according to Inspector William Crowley of the Chardon Fire Department.
  Multiple law enforcement agencies, including a SWAT team, rushed to the school.
  The superintendent immediately canceled classes at all schools in the district. Students who were still on school buses were being dropped back off at their homes and parents were called to pick up their children that were already at school.
  The Chardon School District sent a voicemail to parents that schools are closed and high school students are being moved to the middle school, according to WEWS.
  Parents received the following message:
  "As of 9:00 AM the alleged sole CHS gunman is in custody and Chardon High School students are being moved by safety forces to Maple Elementary. Parents or legal guardians can pick up their students up any time. Chardon Middle School students are also being released to parents."
  Ohio Gov. John Kasich tweeted around 9:30 a.m., "Pls pray for wounded Chardon HS students, their families, and their community; appears things under control now."
  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has eight agents on their way to the scene and they are expected to trace the firearm.
  Chardon is a village in Geauga County, about 35 miles east of Cleveland, Ohio.

• Cookieknight wrote on 2012-02-28 05:07
  thats sad :(
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-28 05:10
  Glad it wasn't extremely terrible which it definitely could've been. :C
• Froglord wrote on 2012-02-28 06:15
  I wanna beat the fucking crap outta that emo who did the shooting. This fucking pisses me off how these little emo kids go around and can't get their shit together so they either commit suicide or kill everyone.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2012-02-28 22:21
  Wow....that's pretty sad. It could have been much worse, but that's still heartbreaking about the kid who died and the 4 that were injured.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-02-28 23:25
  Now the question remains..
  What is the relationship inbetween the shooters and those that got shot?
  Is there any reasons as to why he pulled out his firearm on them in particular?
• Claudia wrote on 2012-02-29 02:16

  Quote from Chiyuri;790278:

  Now the question remains..
  What is the relationship inbetween the shooters and those that got shot?
  Is there any reasons as to why he pulled out his firearm on them in particular?

  
  
  From what I read, the kid is the stereotypical "Nice kid, never tried to mess with anyone, after freshman year he kept to himself mostly."
  
  Pulled from the CNN story:
  
  

  Farinacci said Lane was a "fairly quiet and good kid" with good grades who was doubling up on classes to graduate in May.

  
  
  

  With little to go on to help make sense of the violence, many turned to cryptic Facebook postings by the alleged shooter for a glimpse into Lane's mindset -- especially a long, dark poetic rant from December 30.
  
  The post refers to "a quaint lonely town, (where there) sits a man with a frown (who) longed for only one thing, the world to bow at his feet."
  
  "He was better than the rest, all those ones he detests, within their castles, so vain," he wrote.
  
  Lane then wrote about going through "the castle ... like an ominous breeze through the trees," past guards -- all leading up to the post's dramatic conclusion.
  
  "Feel death, not just mocking you. Not just stalking you but inside of you," it says. "Wriggle and writhe. Feel smaller beneath my might. Seizure in the Pestilence that is my scythe."
  
  The post concludes with: "Die, all of you."

  
  
  Oh yeah, they most likely want to charge him as an adult.
  
  
  
  Also, two more students have died of their injuries, one of them declared as brain dead. How terrible.
• Juno wrote on 2012-02-29 04:56
  Yeah, the facebook thing makes it all clear...easy to say in retrospect, but perhaps if something had been done around that time...
• Hiccup wrote on 2012-02-29 05:54

  Quote from Juno;790569:

  Yeah, the facebook thing makes it all clear...easy to say in retrospect, but perhaps if something had been done around that time...

  
  
  There is always plenty of warning but nothing is ever done.
• Ithiliel wrote on 2012-02-29 06:49

  Quote from Hiccup;790669:

  There is always plenty of warning but nothing is ever done.

  
  
  Unfortunately =(
• Bride wrote on 2012-02-29 08:37

  Chardon student Evan Erasmus told WEWS that a student had tweeted that he was going to bring a gun to school, but that no one took him seriously.

  
  :| :| :|
  
  I knew a guy who said he was thinking "emo thoughts" and wanted to bring a gun to school (and mentioned setting the school on fire). I reported him and fortunately nothing came of what he said
  I can't stand it when people don't take these things seriously, you never know what a person is truly capable of
• Jana wrote on 2012-02-29 10:15
  Well, if this gets enough publicity, that kind of thing won't be ignored in the future, for better or for worse.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-02-29 19:28
  This makes me remember the saying, "Always be careful of the quiet types, they could snap at any moment."
  
  This is a horrible tragedy either way. My prayers go out to all the students affected by this.