Students are returning to an Ohio Chardon High School where a shooting earlier this week killed three teens and wounded two others. Friday was the first time since the shooting that a normal class schedule resumed at the 1,100-student school, about 30 miles east of Cleveland.
The shooting suspect, T.J. Lane, 17, was charged Thursday with three juvenile counts of aggravated murder in connection. Two other Chardon High students were wounded in the attack.
"I'm terrified to walk into Chardon High," said sophomore Katie Williams, 16, at the Chardon High school's entrance. "School is supposed to be a safe place and somebody obviously robbed that from us."
The Geauga County prosecutor says Lane had admitted firing 10 shots at a group of students, killing Russell King Jr., 17, Demetrius Hewlin, and Daniel Parmertor, both 16. Lane also faces two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault.
Friday also marked the start of a series of memorial services for the slain Chardon High students. A visitation took place Friday in Eastlake for Parmertor. At Monreal Funeral Home, the line to say goodbye to Parmertor wrapped around the building and extended into the parking lot. Inside, dozens of people hugged, cried and shared memories of the young man. Photo collages of Parmertor were placed throughout two rooms. Some pictures showed him as an infant smiling alongside his family, as a child in a bright yellow wrestling uniform, and as a teen sporting red and black, Chardon High school colors.
A banner reading, "Thoughts On Danny" and signed by dozens of people of Chardon High, hung in a room across from his casket at the funeral home.
