This Week In Education (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
"He looks like any other high school student - except for the guns 14-year-old Asa Coon holds in each hand. Coon's rampage was captured in eerie, time-lapse snapshots by security cameras at SuccessTech Academy." See more images here. The local...
Joanne Jacobs (Free subscription) | 10/15/2007
In the wake of the shooting at SuccessTech Academy — two teachers and two students wounded, the 14-year-old shooter a suicide — Cleveland schools are considering putting a metal detector at every campus, even those with few violence problems. It won't work, say the usual experts. The way to prevent shootings, they say, is to [...]
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
The shooting incident at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday is the second in a string of violent attacks on young people across the U.S. this week. On Monday six young people were shot to death by an off-duty sheriff's deputy in Wisconsin. Both incidents are eerily similar to the killings at Virginia Tech, Delaware State University, and Columbine High...
MyCrimeSpace (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
Asa Coon MySpace page a fake: In case you haven't heard Asa Coon was the 14-year-old gunman who shot 4 at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland. He killed himself before police could apprehend him. (Check out my other blog CrimeNe.ws for all the details.) Anyway some 19-year-old attention whore from Utah decided to make a fake MySpace attributed [...]
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
ZEPHYRHILLS - Before he was labeled the Success Tech High School shooter in Cleveland, Asa Coon was a good grandson, according to his paternal grandmother Frances Coon, who lives in Zephyrhills. She saw him last summer when they spent the day together in Orlando. It was the first time she saw him since he was 4-year-old – he always lived in Cleveland, Coon said.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Oct. 11 - Just two days before Asa Coon went on a rampage at Success Tech Academy alternative school, the 14-year-old got into a fight with a classmate over religion.
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Cleveland, OH - Did a concerned student's call for action fall upon deaf ears? New questions now surfacing about whether the shooting at SuccessTech Academy could have been prevented. 19 Action News Reporter Harry Boomer talked with one student who knew Asa Coon was a ticking time bomb.
TheBizofKnowledge (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Asa Coon was a student at Cleveland's SuccessTech Academy. Asa Coon was nicknamed Jack Black. Asa Coon was loud. Asa Coon was chubby. Asa Coon was long-haired. Asa Coon starred in the movie "School of Rock."
ByronCrawford.com (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Say It Ain't So! I know, to try to find any personal amusement in an awful tragedy like this is just wrong. However, if you go to the website for SuccessTech Academy, the school that was shot up yesterday, it's...
CNN (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
A teenage gunman who opened fire at a Cleveland high school had a history of trouble inside and outside of school, say authorities, parents and fellow students. Asa Coon, 14, killed himself in a classroom after shooting two teachers and two students at SuccessTech Academy.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
CLEVELAND - A 14-year-old student shot two fellow students and two teachers at a Cleveland school before turning the gun on himself, police confirmed today. The boy identified as Asa H. Coon was said to be put off after being suspended from SuccessTech Academy on Monday following his involvement in a fight.
WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: A senior student at SuccessTech Academy captures the scene after a teenage shooter opens fire inside the school on Wednesday afternoon. Warren Marks talks about what it was like inside the school - while his mother describes the fear she felt waiting for word on Warren. The triggerman - suspended student 14-year-old Asa Coon - opened fire injuring five...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2007
Washington - At least five people were injured in an Ohio school shooting Wednesday, including two adults and three students. Four of the victims were directly shot, and a fifth hurt her knee during the fracas at the Success Tech High School, said Cl...
