Chardon High School Shooting: Third Student Dies In Ohio

A third student, Demetrius Hewlin, who was wounded in the Ohio school shooting Monday, has died at the hospital, the Associated Press reports.

According to a report by The Plain Dealer, the junior died today at the MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland.

UPDATE: Police Chief Tim Mckenna told the Associated Press news of Hewlin's death came shortly after 17-year-old Russell King Jr. died. Another student, Daniel Parmertor, was the first to die just hours after the shooting.

Hewlin's family has issued a statement:

"We are very saddened by the loss of our son and others in our Chardon community," his family said in a statement released by the hospital. "Demetrius was a happy young man who loved life and his family and friends. We will miss him very much but we are proud that he will be able to help others through organ donation. We ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time."

This is a developing story, check back for updates as more information becomes available.

Comments

[PunisherWarJournal]

11:00 AM on 03/01/2012

More of these people are breeding than those who aren't violent drug-addicts. It will only get worse.

[PunisherWarJournal]

10:52 AM on 03/01/2012

Take away all guns. Then this problem disappears, right?

Only the 1% should have these rights. They control everything else.

[bsdiana94]

04:16 PM on 02/29/2012

Just one question:

How have we gotten to a point in our society when people place a higher value on the "right" to own a weapon than the "right" of our children not to die?

[leonardstique1]

07:07 PM on 02/29/2012

There you go again- a red herring. We have 600,000 police officers in the U.S. How many of them showed up to protect Gabby Giffords?
Instead of focusing on a single incident-why not look at the big picture. Do you HONESTLY expect law-abiding Americans to voluntarily give up their guns because of some sort of collective guilt trip?

[Calence Emerson]

05:24 PM on 03/01/2012

When someone goes inside of themselves, and finds that they do not need weapons, only then will they let them go. As long as people live in fear, they will cling to their guns and their "rights" to own them.

[Nino Bookman]

12:33 PM on 02/29/2012

School campuses need to be better policed and security made tighter. I get a lot of bad feedback when I post these ideas, but we have to try something. Otherwise, the Feds will take away gun ownership which is of course the crux of the whole "killing by gun" problem. I am not advocating banning gun ownership, I am advocating trying to keep them off school campuses. Guns are simply too easy to get and sneak into an establishment. Stopping gun crime in schools has to be made top priority. No we can not stop people from killing others, but we can reduce gun crime. Urge you legislators to vote for school safety - scanning, searches and policing of campuses.

[ariadne104]

09:05 AM on 02/29/2012

I really wish HP would have reported more on who Demetrius was instead of just random mention. Every time something happens like this, the focus is on the criminal who did this and there's not much on the victims.

Well here's a little something about Demetrius that will show you this was a young man that thought more than just about himself.

Mod please allow this to go through, several of my comments are not making it and they follow HP guidelines. Thanks

http://www.cleveland.com/chardon-shooting/index.ssf/2012/02/chardon_victim_donated_organs.html

[Dimensio]

10:03 AM on 02/29/2012

Directing media attention to the victims of a crime diverts attention to the perpetrator of the crime.  Diverting attention from the perpetrator of the crime reduces media exposure of the perpetrator to the public.  Reduced exposure of the perpetrator to the public reduces the likelihood of another individual being influenced by the allure of media exposure and attention and engaging in similar violent behaviour.  The reduced likelihood of similar violent behaviour reduces the likelihood of increased media ratings.

Media outlets must focus upon the criminal, rather than upon the victim, as a means of protecting their interests.

[Calence Emerson]

05:28 PM on 03/01/2012

Dimensio you are correct that a lot of kids are inspired by the media attention. In my 13+ years of connecting with tens of thousands of kids who understand, idolize, or want to emulate Columbine, many of them wanted to mail me their diaries and videos in hopes that I would publish that information on my website so they aren't forgotten. I've had kids admit to me that they try to get Columbine off their mind and they do for a while but then when the home videos were released they got to watch Eric and Dylan live and that inspired them even more. It doesn't inspire everyone but it does inspire many.

[kdsaunders]

07:36 AM on 02/29/2012

This is so very heartbreaking. Thoughts and prayers for the families that lost their children, for the other victims that were injured and their families, friends, students, school staff and the Chardon community. Praying for TJ Lane and his family as well.

[Isom Dart]

05:32 AM on 02/29/2012

We need make school uniforms mandatory. In today’s schools, children compete with each other to wear quality trademark type clothing. This breeds jealousy, and puts kids who can not afford to dress up in a lower class standard within the student body. Causes aggression and promotes theft, shop lifting and other criminal activities and may also contribute to children selling themselves for sex . Clothing colors are used to identify gang members, the style that is most popular today is the “Gangster” look. What kind of role is this, if students were wearing the same style, it would allow them the peace of mind not to stress themselves with being in style, or the best dressed. I have actually read in the news paper that students gang up and beat kids that accidentally wear gang colors, or show up in a new pair of high trade mark shoes. Uniformity would stop this. The colors used in every public school in America, should be the same.
How do we do away with crime so that we can change the way we live? We need to start at the basics: Our children. Home and School is where morals are taught, by parents and teachers. Working at Burger king, waiter in a fast food place, sales person, street sweeper. A High school graduate is not prepared for the job market, and the education system is not designed to help you have a future. Education to include college must be free.

[Itz her]

12:08 PM on 02/29/2012

All this on Uniforms? Really. Sorry to burst your bubble but That will not help much..if at all. Some people find ways to have or cause problems regardless of clothing.

[Calence Emerson]

05:29 PM on 03/01/2012

If I had to wear a uniform in school, that requirement alone would have inspired me to kill the administration. #JustSayin'

[Nicholas Pruszynski]

12:23 AM on 02/29/2012

What is this country coming to? :(

[EllaH2]

10:34 PM on 02/28/2012

Bullying is not new - I was bullied and teased in middle school. Breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend and then watching them move on to date someone else is not new, either. It has happened to many of us. But when I was in middle and high school (the 70's), I don't remember a single instance of a student bringing a gun to school and shooting the student(s) who had wronged him/her. What has happened to our children that they even consider this? In my opinion, it has much to do with the violence that is so commonplace in television, movies, and video games. Kids have become so desensitized to violence that they lose sight of the fact that death is permanent. If you kill someone in a video game, you can kill them again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next with no apparent consequence. That fantasy world mentality combines with absent or disconnected parents and kids who have not developed healthy coping skills to create this horrific new societal reality.

[Ginny Fischer]

10:59 PM on 02/28/2012

That and the easy access to guns.

[setanta54]

12:12 AM on 02/29/2012

LOL--more "gun" laws now due to the brady bunch then back in the day and "guns" were easier to own,buy,sell,swap etc.back then as well.

[Christina Bahrijczuk]

02:05 AM on 02/29/2012

Google Brenda Ann Spencer. School shootings happened in the 70s, too. It's not the movies, or the music, or the video games. It's children that have never heard the word "no" clashing with a world that is almost always "no". It's parents who feel protecting their child from disappointment and consequences is a way to prepare them for life.

[henryptnm]

06:15 AM on 02/29/2012

There was one college shooting (1966). University of Texas. Charles Whitman. Texas Tower Sniper.

[Bubbagreen]

10:33 PM on 02/28/2012

There truly is a lack of Natural Affection in the world today. Life seems cheap, throw away and of little value . Only 1 thing will rid these types of senseless actions.

[Bubbagreen]

02:21 AM on 02/29/2012

also this is a sorrowfull ending to all of these young people.

[northhouse1121]

10:20 PM on 02/28/2012

I never post but i am distraught.beyond sorry 4 the families.pray 4 comfort which will come

[thenewyorker34]

10:10 PM on 02/28/2012

why do white kids shoot up their High Schools so often?

well i went to a HS where we had airport TSA style security, but in the in 90's. a good amount of black schools in nyc were/are like that.

i guess its time to bring the airport sec to the white schools.

but at least this was not random.... and the kid had a target in mind.... unlike colombine, where it was a 'everyone must die' deal.

too bad 3 kids have been killed...

maybe they should cut the school band, dont invest in computer labs a library, and put a top notched TSA checkpoint at the school entrance like they've been doing to minorities for years.... and then pay the local PD to have a armed cop in the school all day.... im just sayin.

but i guess 'some' of America is in denial still yet, not in our town, not our good ol kids.... not in our pure as the driven snow town.

protect the kids from themselves and they will come home at the end of the day...

this kinda crap gets me more angry then sad.... so pardon me( race is not the focus here, just wish schools will take steps to protect kids... some measures are seemingly forbidden in white schools districts while minority school are ran like detention centers and accepted as common place).

[mazzy1]

09:52 PM on 02/28/2012

Kids are takeing matters in their own hands..Teachers, police, school board on and on can't get a handle on bullying problem So very sad those kids died i feel deeply for the parents..They moved to Chardon, Ohio to get away from crime?

[Ironman95]

02:35 AM on 02/29/2012

And why should teachers, police, school boards be responsible for these problems? This is a parenting problem. This is a learned way of life and living problem. Learned at home, not in the schools or classrooms.

[Itz her]

12:12 PM on 02/29/2012

If a kid actually comes to a teacher and tells them about the issue that has taken place at the school or if the teacher,or principal or whomever sees the bullying and does nothing (which I have witnessed myself) then that is a issue on their behalf. May not be learned in the classroom but not doing anything about it when the issue is right in your face is just as bad.

[Calence Emerson]

05:30 PM on 03/01/2012

My parents were awesome and I never learned any of my behavior from my home. And yet I was arrested for planning a shooting decades ago at my school. Not the home. Not always.

[bev morse]

09:50 PM on 02/28/2012

it is beyond sad - for some, even more - our hearts go out - to all -

[Cassie May Bisard]

09:40 PM on 02/28/2012

So the kid was bullied and didn't have good parents Well people. Things in our country won't start getting better until parents start parenting and kids start learning that just because they have rights doesn't mean they can then do what ever they please. Children are our future this terribly sad but I can tell ya its going to happen again give it a month or so....