Third Student Dies After Ohio School Shooting
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Samantha Kimball consoled her younger brother Daniel after a fatal shooting at a high school in Chardon, Ohio.
CHARDON, Ohio — Two more students have died after a shooting rampage on
Monday at a high school outside of Cleveland that left three other
students hospitalized with serious injuries, the authorities said
Tuesday.
One student, Russell King Jr., 17, died early Tuesday morning of gunshot
wounds. Demetrius Hewlin also died on Tuesday. Another student, Daniel
Parmertor, 16, died on Monday.
The students were seated at the same table in the cafeteria at 7:30 a.m.
when a teenage boy at the next table pulled out a .22-caliber gun from a
bag and began firing, witnesses said.
Tim McKenna, chief of police in Chardon, said the suspect in the case
would be in court for a hearing Tuesday afternoon. He said he would not
identify the suspect because he is a juvenile. The police did not offer
any information about a possible motive or about where the suspect
obtained a gun.
On Monday night, the family of the suspect, T. J. Lane, 17, of Chardon
Township, made his identity public when their lawyer read a statement on WKYC-TV,
a local television station, extending condolences to the victims and
their families. Mr. Lane was not a student at Chardon High but he did
know some of his victims, witnesses said.
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.
Joseph Bergant II, the superintendent of schools, said Chardon High
School would reopen on Friday. Parents and students were invited to the
school on Thursday to meet with counselors.
