“They said, ‘Just stay at your desk, there’s been a shooting.’ It was pretty scary.” “When I got from my car to the building, I saw a group of girls kind of backing away, and they were like, ‘I’m not going back in there, I’m not going back in there,’” said Hardin, who is 7 1/2 months pregnant.įire trucks and police filled the area, Hardin said. The shooting occurred across the street from the FBI office in downtown Cleveland, and students were being sent to the FBI site.Ĭleveland resident April Hardin, who works next door to the high school where the shooting occurred, told that she returned from her lunch break to find chaos. “You never know what’s going on in someone’s mind,” said Deberry, adding that she was required to go through a metal detector and present an identification card whenever she wanted to drop off something at school for her children.
The other two injured teens were taken to a children’s hospital, which would not release their names, ages or conditions.ĭeberry’s mother, Lakisha Deberry, said she was upset that metal detectors at the school were not always in use. Math teacher David Kachadourian, 57, was in good condition Michael Grassie, a 42-year-old teacher, was in surgery, but his condition was unavailable. “It took me a couple of minutes to realize that I was actually shot, when I felt my arm burning in the area, that’s when I realized that I had got shot,” Rodgers said. She said she heard about 10 shots.ĭarnell Rodgers, 18, was walking up to another floor when the stairway suddenly became flooded with students. LeVert said she hid in a closet with two other students after she heard a “Code Blue” alert over the loudspeaker. He didn’t see us, we saw him.” The shooter swore and shot several times, Deberry said. He shot Mike in the side.” Peek, 14, didn’t know Coon had a gun, Smith said.Īntonio Deberry, 17, said he and his classmates hid under laboratory tables and watched the shooter move down the hallway. The first person shot, student Michael Peek, had punched Coon in the face right before the shootings began, said student Rasheem Smith, 15.Ĭoon “came out of the bathroom and bumped Mike and he (Mike) punched him in his face.
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