Ohio School Shooting

In Cleveland, Ohio, a fourteen year old student dressed in black opened fire in his high school on Wednesday. Success Tech Academy is an alternative high school in the public school district that focuses on technology and entrepreneurship. The shooters name was Asa H. Coon, and he wounded four people before he killed himself. Coon was suspended two days earlier for fighting a fellow student at Success Tech Academy. He had made threats in front of students and teachers a week earlier. Officers said that coon had two .38 caliber revolver, and the police found a duffel bag filled with ammunition and three knives in a bathroom. The school had metal detectors, which angered parents that something like this could happen. Two teachers and two students were shot, and a 14 year old girl fell running out of the school and hurt her knee. He moved through each of the five floors of the building wearing a black Marilyn Manson concert shirt, black jeans and black-painted finger nails. Michael Peek was the first person shot and he had punched Coon in the face right before the shootings began. Some of the students hid under tables or in closets. The other student shot was Darnell Rodgers. Rodgers was treated and released from the hospital for a bullet graze on his right elbow. The teachers who were shot were David Kachadourian, who is in good condition, and Michael Grassie, who is in surgery. The other two injured students are in the hospital. All classes at the school have been cancelled for Thursday.

One of the worst known school massacres was the Bath school disaster. On May 18, 1927, 45 people, mostly children, were killed and 58 were injured when disgruntled school board member Andrew Kehoe dynamited an elementary school in Bath, Michigan out of revenge over his foreclosed farm due in part to the taxes required to pay for the new school.

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