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Oct. 10: Cleveland police say as many as four people have been injured in a shooting at a downtown high school. MSNBC's Contessa Brewer has the story.
BREAKING NEWS MSNBC staff and news service reports
CLEVELAND - At least four people were shot by a 14-year-old suspect at a Cleveland high school Wednesday, school security officials told WKYC-TV.
Police said the shootings took place at SuccessTech Academy on the third and fourth floors, WEWS-TV reported. At least two of the victims were teachers and three were taken to MetroHealth Center, WKYC reported. No other details on their condition was available.
Security officials told WKYC the school building is now secure Police told WKYC they have the suspected shooter "in control."
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The gunman had two weapons, witnesses told WKYC. The suspected shooter was reportedly upset about a suspension on Tuesday.
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The security guard was on vacation, WKYC reported, and two other full time security guards had been laid off in recent years.
Parents wait anxiously
Students stood outside the building many in tears and on cell phones. Family members also stood outside, anxiously waiting for their children to be released.
One student at SuccessTech Academy said she heard the principal say "Code Blue" over the public address system, and the students started running. Doneisha LeVert said she hid in a closet with some of her friends.
Ronnell Jackson, 15, said he saw a shooter running down the hall and ducked out the door.
"He was about to shoot me but I got out just in time," he said. "He was aiming at me I got out just in time," Jackson said.
Tammy Mundy, 38, who has a son and daughter at the school, told The Plain Dealer of Cleveland that her daughter called when the shooting started.
"She said, 'Mom they're shooting in here, kids are running out, I'm hiding in the closet,"' Mundy told the newspaper.
Then she called her 18-year-old son, Darnell Rodgers, on his cell phone, and he told her he had been shot in the arm.
"He said, 'Mom I got shot,"' Mundy told the newspaper.
Police shut down several nearby roads because of the shooting, WKYC reported.
This report will be updated as information becomes available.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Location of Ohio within the United States.
A 14-year-old student opened fire in a Cleveland, Ohio high school today, wounding four people. The gunman then fatally shot himself.

Police were called to the scene at 1:15 p.m. EST, with reports of a gunman in the school. The gunman, 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, entered the school with a gun in each hand. Students were evacuated, with the gunman reportedly still in the building for some time afterward.

According to Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson, two adult males, ages 57 and 42, and two teenage males, ages 18 and 14, were wounded, and taken to local hospitals. A third teenager, a 14-year-old female, hurt her knee while running from the school.

A spokesperson for the hospital would not give details of the students' names or conditions, but Jackson said in an afternoon press conference that all three teenagers were in stable condition.

According to one student, 14-year-old student Michael Peek was the first person shot, after reportedly punching Coon in the face.  The student indicated that Peek did not know that Coon was armed at the time. 18-year-old student Darnell Rodgers told the media that he was the other student shot, a graze wound for which he was treated and subsequently released.

The 57-year-old teacher, David Kachadourian, was listed in good condition. 42-year-old teacher Michael Grassie was in surgery and his condition was unavailable.

The gunman was reportedly upset about a recent suspension arising from a fight that happened Monday near the school.

According to one student interviewed by ''CNN'', the gunman said he "worshiped the devil" and had mentioned committing a shooting at the school. Another student noted that the gunman often wore a trench coat and an empty pistol belt to class.

A security guard was present on the first floor of the building, but the position of a guard on the third floor was eliminated. While metal detectors were present in the building, they were not always in use; it is unclear whether they were in use at the time of the shooting.

The school, SuccessTech Academy, is a non-traditional school within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, described on their web site as a "small, nontraditional high school that provides a learning environment in which all student believe in their ability to succeed."  It opened five years ago.

SuccessTech is located on the third, fourth and fifth floors of a building in downtown Cleveland that also houses some administrative offices.

The school owes its existence in part to a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which helped to fund the creation of the school.