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4 Hurt, Gunman Killed in Ohio School
Police released audio from three 911 calls _ two from students who had fled the building after the first two shots and one from a distraught mother, calling on behalf of her son, who was huddled in the back of a fourth floor classroom.
"They just shot somebody in his room!" the crying mother told the dispatcher.
  A male shooting victim gives the thumbs up as he is carried out on a stretcher after being shot at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007. Mayor Frank Jackson said three young people and two adults were hurt by a student who turned the gun on himself. (AP Photo//The Plain Dealer, Gus Chan) (Gus Chan - AP)
VIDEO | Gunfire erupted at a high school in Cleveland on Wednesday, and one witness said he saw three people taken out in stretchers.
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CLOSEThe first person shot, 14-year-old student Michael Peek, had punched Coon in the face right before the shootings began, said student Rasheem Smith, 15.
Coon "came out of the bathroom and bumped Mike and he (Mike) punched him in his face. Mike started walking. He shot Mike in the side," Smith said.
Antonio Deberry, 17, said he and his classmates hid under laboratory tables and watched the shooter move down the hallway. "I saw him walking past. He didn't see us, we saw him." The shooter swore and shot several times, Deberry said.
LeVert said she hid in a closet with two other students after she heard a "Code Blue" alert over the loudspeaker. She said she heard about 10 shots.
Darnell Rodgers, 18, was walking up to another floor when the stairway suddenly became flooded with students.
"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.
"They were screaming, and they were saying, 'Oh my God, oh my God.' I knew something was wrong, but thought that it was probably just a fight, so I just kept going," Rodgers said.
Rodgers was released from a hospital after treatment for a graze wound to his right elbow.
Coon had been suspended since Monday for fighting near the school that day, said Charles Blackwell, president of SuccessTech's student-parent organization. He did not know how Coon got into the building Wednesday.
Blackwell said that there was a security guard on the first floor, but that the position of another guard on the third floor had been eliminated.
