Five People Hurt in Ohio School Shooting

By Diane Smith
22:18, October 10th 2007
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Five People Hurt in Ohio School Shooting

A school shooting in Ohio left at least five people injured - two adults and three students - on Wednesday. Four of them were shot and the fifth was injured during the brawl at the Success Tech High School, said Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in a broadcasted statement.

According to Major Jackson, the most severely wounded were the adults. The teachers injured in the high school near downtown Cleveland are 42 and 57 of age, while the other two who were also shot are aged 14 and 17.

"All the children are in stable, good condition," Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson told reporters.

Further details whether the 14-year-old shooter suspect was arrested or even killed, as a local school radio station reported, weren’t released. CNN also said that the shooter was killed, but when asked about it, Mayor Jackson refused to comment.

Ronnell Jackson, aged 15, said he saw the shooter running down a school hallway.

"He was about to shoot me but I got out just in time," he said.

It seems that the teenage shooter was very upset after he was suspended earlier in the week. He got into the high school with a gun in each hand and started firing.

The case resembles a series of other violent episodes at US schools. For example, about a month ago, in August, a troubled student shot and killed 32 students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. After committing the worst mass shooting in US History, the teen killed him self.

The shooting which took place at Columbine in 1999 is also a well known similar case. Two students entered the Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado put to death 12 of their colleagues and a teacher before turning the guns on their selves.

The alternative high school is located in central Cleveland right across from the FBI's offices and three blocks from where the Cleveland Browns play football. All the students are poor under federal poverty guidelines.



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