CHARDON, Ohio – The FBI has said four students are injured and one gunman is in custody after a shooting at Chardon High School Monday morning.
Two students have been taken by helicopter to Hillcrest Hospital and two have been taken to MetroHealth Hospital.
Chardon Local School District sent out the following message to parents:
As of 9:00 AM the alleged sole CHS gunman is in custody and Chardon High School students are being moved by safety forces to Maple Elementary. Parents or legal guardians can pick up their students up any time. Chardon Middle School students are also being released to parents.
Please be advised that that campus and surrounding area is extremely congested and there is a long wait to sign out students. You may want to wait a bit before leaving home.
we will continue to update you using this communication system.
Teresa Hunt told NewsChannel5 that her daughter said that she heard five shots fired in the cafeteria at about 7:30 a.m. Hunt has been texting with her daughter who said students are scared. She said her daughter told her four people were shot.
Chardon student Evan Erasmus told NewsChannel5 that a student tweeted that he was going to bring a gun to school but not one took him seriously.
Lake County Sherrif’s Department said it sent SWAT unit and truck unit to Chardon.
A command scene was setup at a local Walmart where Bob Herp, a Chardon trauma nurse, said helicopters were on the ground right now.
Nicole Nichols told NewsChannel5 that her daughter goes to Chardon Middle School. They were told classes would be canceled today, and the high school students were being moved to the middle school.
Chardon School District sent a voicemail to parents that schools are closed and high school students are being moved to the middle school.
NewsChannel5 received a call from Elton Brooks who said his daughter, a teacher at Chardon High School told him the school was under lockdown. He said his daughter was safe but was hearing that a shooter is still in the school.
Just before 9:30 a.m., Governor John Kasich tweeted: “Pls pray for wounded Chardon HS students, their families, and their community; appears things under control now”
UPDATE
During television reports we’ve learned that the gunman is in custody. A student, Nate Mueller who was grazed on the ear says that the shooter was cool and changed into the gothic phase, but was still a nice kid. He said most of the wounded were sitting at the same lunch table with him. Shooter was sitting at a table behind them with others. He says students left his table then he walked over to his table and started shooting.
One male student has died; One of the boys injured is in serious condition; a girl is in stable condition. The condition of the others are unknown and are at a different hospital. Area schools will be closed tomorrow.
Shooter: TJ Lane – NOT a Student of Chardon High School……?!?!?!?!??!?!?
Deceased: Daniel Parmertor
Update: a very grim and cryptic letter that TJ Lane wrote follows:
In a time long since, a time of repent, The Renaissance. In a quaint lonely town, sits a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone. The streets were his home. His thoughts would solely consist of “why do we exist?” His only company to confide in was the vermin in the street. He longed for only one thing, the world to bow at his feet. They too should feel his secret fear. The dismal drear. His pain had made him sincere. He was better than the rest, allthose ones he detests, within their castles, so vain. Selfish and conceited. They couldn’t care less about the peasents they mistreated. They were in their own world, it was a joyous one too. That castle, she stood just to do all she could to keep the peasents at bay, not the enemy away. They had no enemies in their filthy orgy. And in her, the castles every story, was just another chamber of Lucifer’s Laboratory. The world is a sandbox for all the wretched sinners. They simply create what they want and make themselves the winners. But the true winner, he has nothing at all. Enduring the pain of waiting for that castle to fall. Through his good deeds, the rats and the fleas. He will have for what he pleads, through the eradication of disease. So, to the castle he proceeds, like an ominous breeze through the trees. “Stay back!” The Guards screamed as they were thrown to their knees. “Oh God, have mercy, please!” The castle, she gasped and then so imprisoned her breath, to the shallow confines of her fragile chest. I’m on the lamb but I ain’t no sheep. I am Death. And you have always been the sod. So repulsive and so odd. You never even deserved the presence of God, and yet, I am here. Around your cradle I plod. Came on foot, without shod. How improper, how rude. However, they shall not mind the mud on my feet if there is blood on your sheet. Now! Feel death, not just mocking you. Not just stalking you but inside of you. Wriggle and writhe. Feel smaller beneath my might. Seizure in the Pestilence that is my scythe. Die, all of you.
Update a second victim has died: No details on who he or she is yet.
Five students were shot at Chardon High School on Monday, February 27th, 2012.
Victim #1 – Daniel Parmertor, 16, died at MetroHealth Medical Center
Victim #2 – Deceased. Identity Unknown. Lifeflighted to MetroHealth Medical Center.
Victim #3 – Identity Unknown: Lifeflighted to MetroHealth Medical Center: Critical Condition.
Victim #4 – Male, 17, transported to Hillcrest Hospital: Serious Condition
Victim #5 – Female, 18, transported to Hillcrest Hospital: Stable Condition
CHARDON, Ohio (Reuters) – A student opened fire with a handgun in the cafeteria of an Ohio high school east of Cleveland on Monday, killing one student and wounding four others before he was chased from the building by a teacher and gave himself up, law enforcement officials said.
One of the students shot at Chardon High School has died, Chardon Police Chief Tim McKenna said. Four boys and one girl had been hospitalized after the morning shooting, according to the Geauga County Sheriff’s Department.
Two of the boys are 17, and a third was 16, all juniors, she said.Chardon resident Teresa Hunt said on local television she had been receiving messages from her daughter, an 18-year-old senior at the high school. Hunt said her daughter heard five shots in the school cafeteria at about 7:30 a.m. local time.
