shooting at cleveland school

[Badger]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21224357/?GT1=10450

5 hurt in school shooting
14-year-old suspect apparently killed himself after attack, police say
DEVELOPING STORY
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 3:43 p.m. CT Oct 10, 2007

CLEVELAND - A gunman opened fire in a downtown high school on Wednesday, and five people were taken to a hospital, the mayor said.
The suspected shooter, a 14-year-old male student, was killed after the rampage by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Mayor Frank Jackson later said SuccessTech Academy had been secured. "We have no reason to believe there's more than one suspect," Jackson told reporters gathered outside the school.
Jackson said a 57-year-old teacher and 42-year-old male were in stable condition; a 17-year-old male has been treated for a gunshot wound in the elbow and will soon be released; and a 14-year-old male, who was shot in the side, appears stable. A 14-year-old girl was also treated for an injured elbow.
At least three victims were taken to MetroHealth Center, WKYC reported. One shooting victim was taken to Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, WOIO-TV reported.
The student identified as the shooter by students at the school had been suspended Monday for fighting, said Charles Blackwell, president of SuccessTech's student-parent organization. School officials said the suspect was not supposed to be at school that day.
The school's security guard was on vacation, WKYC reported, and two other full-time security guards had been laid off in recent years.


Parents wait anxiously
Following the shooting, students stood outside the building, many in tears, hugging each other and on cell phones; others shouted at reporters with TV cameras to leave them alone. Family members also stood outside, anxiously waiting for their children to be released.
Student Doneisha LeVert, who hid in a closet with two other students after she heard the principal say "Code Blue" over the public address system, said the alleged shooter had threatened students at the school last Friday.

"He's crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody," she said.
Rasheem Smith, 15, said he misunderstood the sound of the gunfire at first but then realized there was a shooting and told his classmates to flee down the stairs.
"I heard gunshots but I just thought someone was banging a book on the desk," Smith said after emerging from the adjacent FBI offices where students were sent after the shooting.
"At first I thought there was nobody shot. I was laughing at first, but then when I came to reality and knew they got shot, I was mad and sad at the same time."

'He was aiming at me'
Ronnell Jackson, 15, said he saw a shooter running down the hall and ducked out the door.
"He was about to shoot me but I got out just in time," he said. "He was aiming at me ... I got out just in time."
Tammy Mundy, 38, who has a son and daughter at the school, told The Plain Dealer of Cleveland that her daughter called when the shooting started.
"She said, 'Mom they're shooting in here, kids are running out, I'm hiding in the closet,"' Mundy told the newspaper.
Then she called her 18-year-old son, Darnell Rodgers, on his cell phone, and he told her he had been shot in the arm.
"He said, 'Mom, I got shot,"' Mundy told the newspaper.
Rodgers' girlfriend, 17-year-old Lateisha Riddlehill, who hid in a bathroom during the shootings, confirmed that Rodgers had been shot in the elbow. She said he told her he was going to be fine.
Police shut down several nearby roads because of the shooting, WKYC reported.
The shooting occurred across the street from the FBI office in downtown Cleveland, and students were being sent to the FBI site.
School was cancelled Thursday for the entire Cleveland Municipal School District, said Eugene Sanders, the district's CEO.


'Just panic'
Cleveland resident April Hardin, who works next door to the high school where the shooting occurred, told msnbc.com that she returned from her lunch break to find chaos.
“When I got from my car to the building, I saw a group of girls kind of backing away, and they were like, ‘I’m not going back in there, I’m not going back in there,’” said Hardin, who is seven-and-a-half months pregnant.
Fire trucks and police filled the area, Hardin said. “They said, ‘Just stay at your desk, there’s been a shooting.’ It was pretty scary.”
Hardin and her co-workers then watched the scene through the windows of their offices at Cleveland’s Ampco System Parking. Students were “sitting on the fence crying,” Hardin said. “It was just panic.”

Alternative school
SuccessTech Academy is an alternative high school in the Cleveland district. The school enrolls about 240 mainly black students with a small number of white and Hispanic students. All the students are poor under federal poverty guidelines.
The school has an academic rating of continuous improvement, in the middle of the state's ratings for how well students perform. Its graduation rate is 94 percent, well above the district's rate of 55 percent.
The school emphasizes entrepreneurship by teaming teachers with local business owners to teach students about the business world.

MSNBC.com's Elizabeth Chuck and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Yeah, another school shooting...

Home School FTW.

 

[Reptile]

lets see how long until it's blamed on video games

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

sad state of affairs

so who wants to place bets, comics, movies or games for the blame

 

[Reptile]

Jack Thompson will tell us

 

[Cmill216]

Thank God this idiot couldn't aim.

treated for a gunshot wound in the elbow

and a 14-year-old male, who was shot in the side

A 14-year-old girl was also treated for an injured elbow

 

[Lando]

I think it was noir wasn't he talking about this a few days ago? Has he been on today?

 

[Badger]

Thank God this idiot couldn't aim.

No kidding, could have been much worse.

What gets me is he was threatening to blow up the school and stab students last week and nobody thought, "Hey, maybe we should keep an eye on him."

This should have been prevented.

 

[Badger]

I think it was noir wasn't he talking about this a few days ago? Has he been on today?

It just happened today.

So if he was talking about it a few days ago, he's got some explaining to do.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

elbow-shootings

 

[amazingfantasy15]

This kid is such a failure, he didn't even kill anyone, everyone's already in stable condition. Where's the Willy Wonka "You lose!" pic.

 

[terry78]

Our kids are such *****es nowadays. And yes, all you that are under 18 on here are included in that assessment. A good hitch in Afghanistan should straighten you all out.

 

[Lando]

It just happened today.

So if he was talking about it a few days ago, he's got some explaining to do.

if I go on a killing spree I'm going for 50.

Thats the quote I'm talking about.

 

[Badger]

Gotcha.

 

[Lando]

Idk, I've talked to him once or twice he is a little weird.

 

[jaguarr]

elbow-shootings

Yo, I'ma pop a cap in yo' 'bow, dawg! :bang:

jag

 

[jaguarr]

This kid is such a failure, he didn't even kill anyone, everyone's already in stable condition. Where's the Willy Wonka "You lose!" pic.

Apparently he didn't learn a damn thing at SuccessTech.

jag

 

[Warhammer]

 

[omid17]

Im freaked out because the kid was only 14 years old, what had to trigger a young kid like that to do such a thing

 

[PLAS]

is this happening right now?

is it for real?

 

[terry78]

Im freaked out because the kid was only 14 years old, what had to trigger a young kid like that to do such a thing

He got a D in trig, and someone on xbox live called him a ***.

 

[PLAS]

Im freaked out because the kid was only 14 years old, what had to trigger a young kid like that to do such a thing

usually, it's just lack of parents attention

the blame's always put on anything, but neglect, and if you check your statistics, most school shootings are done by neglected children

 

[omid17]

He got a D in trig, and someone on xbox live called him a ***.

lmao, poor kid was sensitive

 

[Reptile]

He got a D in trig, and someone on xbox live called him a ***.

well he was acting like a n00b

 

[omid17]

usually, it's just lack of parents attention

the blame's always put on anything, but neglect, and if you check your statistics, most school shootings are done by neglected children

true fact

 

[Warhammer]

Im freaked out because the kid was only 14 years old, what had to trigger a young kid like that to do such a thing

Probably bullies, but there are two sides to blame for that.
It's the bullies' fault for bullying, but since bullies will always be there, it's also the kid's fault because he needs to learn that they will always be there, and that you have to deal with it. If there is a problem, go tell a guidance counselor, teacher, or even the damn principal. Now that he brought a gun to school, his life is more than likely fecked up for the time being.