School System to Issue Security Plan after the Shooting
By Diane Smith
23:01, October 11th 2007
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School System to Issue Security Plan after the Shooting

The school shooting that occurred Wednesday in Cleveland, Ohio determined the local school system to issue an increased security plan. The plan will be released on Friday and will confer about what measures could be taken in order to make the schools safer and how to treat students with potential problems, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland mayor's office said in a press conference.

The incident that happened yesterday saw student Asa Coon gun down four people and injure a fifth in the brawl started after the shooting at the Success Tech High School. Two of the injured students are expected to leave the hospital on Thursday. 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.

The teenage shooter was very upset after he was suspended earlier this week. He got into the high school with a gun in each hand and started firing. He was also carrying three knifes.

Coon committed suicide after the shooting.

As expected, Asa Coon was a kid that resembled the troubled teenagers in Michael Moore’s 2002 film “Bowling for Columbine” and similar films. He turned into a disturbed, violent teen after being bullied and teased by peers. In fact, his school mates told CNN that they witnessed a scene in which Coon said "I got something for y'all" after he was beaten up on Monday.

Police had visited his home five times before the shooting took place. The reasons: incidents caused by domestic violence, assault and hit-skip accident, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said. The signs were all there. He was a student with potential problems; he needed the treatment that the school system aims to implement.

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. All the schools in Cleveland were closed Thursday.

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.



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