Gunman Opens Fire at Cleveland High School

Keep these kids and their families in your prayers. Four were shot! Spare me any gun control arguments that are bound to come up. Instead we should focus on not denying teachers their second amendment rights. If trusted officials were armed it would most likely reduce incidents like this from happening.

A student who allegedly opened fire inside a Cleveland high school today was killed after he shot and wounded several people, creating moments of sheer terror for students, school officials and parents, according to local news outlets.

The Cleveland television station WOIO-19, a CBS affiliate, reported that the gunman may have been a 14-year-old student, and that he was killed after a brief manhunt by police inside the school, the SuccessTech Academy.

There is no official word yet on whether the gunman died of his own hand or was killed by police who descended on the school, which is housed on several floors of an office building on Lakeside Avenue.

Several students and parents told reporters that the student who was killed had been recently suspended, that he drew a gun inside the school, and that his shots hit several people. Two of the victims may have been teachers, according to local television reports.

“The student had two guns, one in each hand, and fired them both while walking down the hallway,” Channel 19 reported. “Three people have been shot — including two teachers.”

Televised scenes outside the school showed dozens of police cars, SWAT team members running in and terrified parents being reunited with their children coming out of the school. The television station showed three gurneys being wheeled out of the school and loaded into ambulances.

One student told The Associated Press that she heard the principal say “Code Blue” over the public address system, and that prompted students to start running.

Again, keep the victims in your prayers.

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