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Fashionista
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Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:42 pm |
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14 Yr. Old Student Dead After Opening Fire In School Hallway
Shooting Spree At Ohio High School
Student, 14, Is Reportedly Dead After Opening Fire In E. Cleveland School Hallway
A 14-year-old student is dead after going on
a shooting rampage inside of an East
Cleveland and shot six people including three
teachers, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. (CBS)
CLEVELAND, Oct. 10, 2007
(CBS/AP) A 14-year-old student went on a shooting rampage this afternoon inside of an East Cleveland high school and shot five people including three teachers.
Although Mayor Frank Jackson has yet to confirm, the shooter has been reported dead, reports CBS affiliate WOIO.
The student was reportedly upset over being suspended.
"We have no reason to believe there's more than one suspect," Jackson told reporters gathered outside the SuccessTech Academy. He also said the school had been secured, but he offered no other details.
Six have been injured, three of them teachers. The extent of the injuries was unknown. All of the children are in stable condition, says the mayor.
Ronnell Jackson, 15, said he saw a shooter running down a hall at SuccessTech Academy.
"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."
Another student, Doneisha LeVert, said she heard the principal say "Code Blue" over the public address system, and the students started running. She said she hid in a closet with some of her friends.
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.
Students stood outside the building, many in tears and on cell phones. Family members also stood outside, anxiously waiting for their children to be released.
"I'm scared. I'm hoping no more people got hurt," Jackson said.
SuccessTech Academy is a downtown alternative high school in the Cleveland city school district. It has 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. It uses an approach developed by E City Cleveland, a nonprofit group aimed at teaching business skills to inner-city teens.
According to the group's Web site, "E CITY is inspiring these teens by showing them that their innate street smarts, mental toughness, and creativity can be turned toward viable business ideas."
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| Katie
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Wed Oct 10, 2007 3:08 pm |
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Now this is every parents nightmare. 
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| Rolls
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Yet another one goes crazy with a pencil, and the bodies pile up.
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| olympic
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Prosecutor: Mom bought assault rifle for boy
The mother of a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a “Columbine-type” event at a high school was arrested Friday morning, prosecutors said.
Michele Cossey, 46, of Plymouth Meeting was charged with six criminal counts in connection with buying her son firearms and bomb-making equipment, including a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic rifle.
The charges are unlawful transfer of a fiream, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment.
A search of the boy’s home Wednesday outside Philadelphia turned up the rifle, about 30 air-powered guns, swords, knives, a bomb-making book and videos of the 1999 Columbine High School attack.
Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. said the weapons were plainly visible in the boy’s bedroom.
During a hearing Friday in juvenile court, a judge ruled authorities could continue to hold the teen during their investigation.
The judge also ordered psychiatric and educational achievement evaluations for the youth, who was taken into custody Wednesday night.
The teen was charged as a juvenile with solicitation to commit terror and other counts and was being held at a youth facility.
As Cossey sat sobbing in the courtroom before the hearing, Castor walked over to her and informed her that he had a warrant for her arrest. He told her to go after the hearing to his office on a lower floor of the courthouse, where the warrant was served.
Cossey is not alleged to have helped plot any attack, Castor said Thursday night.
“I don’t see any evidence that leads me to conclude that she knew that this attack was planned or anything of that nature,” Castor told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
But he said he thinks charges against her are justified.
“I think you have a parent who has fallen down on the job in supervising the child, perhaps indulgent on the child because she knows he has issues,” he said before her arrest.
Police also found seven hand grenades, four of them operational, said Joe Lawrence, deputy chief of the Plymouth Township police. The teenager said the two .22-caliber weapons were stored at a friend’s house.
If the teen is found delinquent, he could face long-term detention and counseling. The boy’s father also could face criminal charges pending an investigation, police said.
In addition to the weapons, authorities found a hand-painted Nazi flag and videos about the Columbine shootings, Castor said. Watch Castor explain why he is upset with the parents »
“It is my judgment that this individual considered that something to be glorified and was doing so,” he said.
Two students opened fire at Columbine in Littleton, Colorado, on April 20, 1999. They killed 13 people and wounded 23 others before killing themselves.
School officials said police acted on a tip from a Plymouth Whitemarsh High School student and his father. They said they believe the tip was prompted by Wednesday’s shooting at a school in Cleveland, Ohio, in which a 14-year-old killed himself after wounding two teachers and two other students.
In the Pennsylvania case, police say they received the tip at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and took the youth into custody at his home around 10. He was “nonchalant” when arrested, Lawrence said.
The grenades were made with plastic casings that authorities believe the boy bought on the Internet, Lawrence said. The operational hand grenades included black powder, BBs and a fuse believed used in fireworks. The boy was making the grenades in his bedroom, Lawrence said.
Police also found 30 weapons that fire BBs and the 9 mm semiautomatic rifle with a magazine that could hold 30 rounds of ammunition.
Castor said officials do not think others were involved.
“We have no information at this point that leads us to think this is other than an isolated individual who was trying to recruit others to help,” he said.
“The boy who gave the tip was one who was trying to be recruited,” he added. “He was a friend of the boy in the loosest terms.”
Plymouth Whitemarsh High officials said the boy is not a student at the school.
“This was a youth in the community who has not been enrolled in school since spring of 2006,” said Dave Sherman, spokesman for the school.
The public high school in Plymouth Meeting has 1,591 students in grades nine through 12. Classes were canceled because of the incident, school officials said Thursday.
Plymouth Township is about 15 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
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| Noshedidn't
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Mother is in jail too? That means one less scared monky to post hate?
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