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Chardon gunman T.K. Lane charged with murder, funeral for Demetrius Hewlin, the Black student killed, is Tues., Russell's is Thurs.

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Chardon High School Gunman Thomas "TJ" Lane Demetrius Hewlin Daniel Parmetor Russell King By Kathy Wray Coleman , Editor of Cleveland Urban News.Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online Ne ws Blog,.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CHARDON, Ohio-Thomas "TJ" Lane, the 17-year-old student that gunned down three students in the Chardon High School cafeteria and wounded two other students, was charged on Thurs. with three juvenile counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault. Geauga County Prosecutor David Joyce said that since Lane faces only a few years in a juvenile detention center if convicted as a juvenile of the charges, he intends to charge the teen as an adult . Lane attended an alternative school for students with problems and admitted to police that he took a knife and 22- caliber pistol to school and fired 10 shots before being run out of the sch

Third Chardon High School shooting victim that dies is Black student named Demetrius Hewlin, 16

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Demetrius Hewlin By Kathy Wray Coleman, Editor, Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CHARDON, Ohio-In spite of a Black population of roughly a half of a percent in the once obscure city of Chardon, Oh., a small town in Geauga County of some 5, 000 people that lies 35 miles east of the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, a Black teen is the third of three students to die among five students shot during a shooting rampage by gunman Thomas "TJ" Lane, 16, who let loose in the school cafeteria Mon. morning. Demetrius Hewlin, 17, died at Metro-Health Hospital in Cleveland Tues. afternoon, police said. His family donated his organs to Lifebanc, saying that that was what he wanted. The other two fatally injured victims, Daniel Parmertor, 16, and Russell King, 17, died Mon. A fourth and fifth student remain hospitalized. Meanwhile, Lane, who was also a student at the school, and a kid that his classmates say was bullied and deemed an outcast, rem