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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

Rep. Patmon wants law for metal detectors like Cleveland has in aftermath of Chardon school shooting that left 2 dead, Kasich calls for prayer

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Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) Suspected Chardon High School Gunman Thomas "TJ" Lane From the Metro Desk of The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com and Cleveland Urban News.Com ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Following the aftermath of a shooting Mon. morning by a craze student in the cafeteria of Chardon High School that left two students dead, three others hospitalized, and a town in grief, a state legislator is calling for metal detectors in all of Ohio's public schools. "What happen is horrendous and you have to wonder what is going on in and out of our schools for this type of hate and destructive behavior to occur, " said state Rep. Bill Patmon (D-10), a Cleveland Democrat. "I would support a state law for a requirement for all Ohio schools districts to install metal detectors in all of its schools." Community activist groups such as The