One Dead, Four Hurt In US School Shooting

**bb1** Mon Feb 27, 2012 6:58 pm

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16178116

One student has died and at least four others have been injured in a high school shooting in the US state of Ohio.

The shooting was reported on Monday morning at Chardon High School in a town around 30 miles east of Cleveland.
Police said a student had opened fire with a handgun before he was chased from the building by a teacher. The student is then believed to have given himself up.
The college, which has more than 1,000 students, was put on lockdown and an armed SWAT police team was sent to the scene.
Television images showed armed police on site, and parents and students were seen gathering on the school grounds.
Civil deputy Erin Knife said a single person was suspected of carrying out the attack.
An FBI spokesman said five students had been injured in the shooting and the gunman had been arrested near his car about half a mile (one kilometre) away from the high school. One of the victims has since died.
Superintendent Joseph Bergant said: "The alleged person who did the damage is in custody, the school campus is now safe."
Speaking before one of the students died, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland Clinic said the four boys and one girl who were injured were being treated at two different hospitals.
Three were flown to the trauma centre at MetroHealth Medical Centre in Cleveland.
Two others were at Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, a suburb of Cleveland.
An eyewitness said she saw the gunman as he opened fire in the cafeteria.
Seventeen-year-old Heather Ziska said at about 7.30am she heard popping sounds coming from the corridor.
She then saw a boy with a gun who she recognised as a fellow student come into the cafeteria and start shooting.
The Ohio shooting is the worst at a US high school in 11 months.