Another victim of Ohio school shooting dies

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Sixteen-year-old Daniel Parmertor died in hospital shortly after the shooting.

28 February,2012 04:03 pm

The death toll from a high school shooting in Ohio rose to three Tuesday with two more teens succumbing to wounds suffered when a fellow student opened fire in a high school cafeteria.The alleged shooter, identified as 17-year-old TJ Lane, opened fire Monday with a handgun on a group of fellow students in the cafeteria of Chardon High School in suburban Cleveland shortly after the start of the school day.Demetrius Hewlin and Russell King died Tuesday from gunshot wounds suffered in the attack. Sixteen-year-old Daniel Parmertor died in hospital shortly after the shooting. Two others, a boy and a girl, were wounded but now in stable condition.“We are very saddened by the loss of our son and others in our Chardon community,” Hewlin’s family said in a statement.Lane was to be arraigned at a juvenile court hearing at 2030 GMT, authorities said.Shocked residents of this close-knit community struggled to comprehend how the tragedy could have happened. As in previous school shootings, the gunman’s demons, the missed warning signs and lax US gun laws leapt quickly to the fore.The White House called the event “terrible and unforgivable” and said it was too early to link it to bullying.“I would very much hesitate to draw any conclusions about what happened in this incident in Ohio before there’s a full investigation,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.