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Chardon High School students have collaborated to create a T-shirt to help raise money for the families of the victims of Monday’s deadly shooting — and it has even drawn interest outside Ohio.

CHARDON, OH (WOIO) - Three families in Chardon faced with the heart-breaking ordeal of making funeral arrangements after a student gunman opens fire inside a Northeast Ohio high school. The family of 16-year-old Danny Parmertor have finalized plans to say goodbye to their loved one.

NORTH ROYALTON, OHIO (WOIO) - North Royalton High School was under lockdown for about 30 minutes Wednesday morning after a student reported a classmate threatened her and made reference to guns. The student went to her counselor with what the 9th grade boy had threatened. The counselor alerted the school resource officer, who contacted police. Officers then searched the area and found no weapon.

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - 19 Action News has been following the Chardon tragedy since it broke Monday morning. The story has been making national headlines and we've found some local officers who had already been training for a situation like this. They have been learning new ways to handle what police call an active shooter. All Cleveland cops recently received an eight page order explaining what to do if a gunman is rampaging through a school or mall or even a sporting event. Cleveland police are relying more than ever on patrol officers -- counting on them to confront a gunman instead of waiting for a SWAT team.

Two Cleveland high schools, Glenville and Central Catholic, went through various scares earlier in the day in the wake of the Chardon High School shootings. Glenville went through a lock down, while Central Catholic had a bomb scare.

CHARDON, OH (WOIO) - Grief counselors are on hand as Chardon High School faculty and staff returned to the building for the first time since a student gunman fatally shot three students. High school faculty and staff reported to Chardon High at 9AM, all Middle School faculty and staff gathered at Chardon United Methodist Church at 9AM and all K-5 faculty and staff reported to Munson Elementary. The shootings occurred just before the start of classes Monday morning around 7:40AM in the area of the High School's cafeteria. 17-year-old TJ Lane reportedly opened fire, shooting five students.

The parents of a boy killed in the Chardon school shooting said he was looking forward to picking up his paycheck from his first job.

CHARDON, Ohio — The teenager arrested in an Ohio school shooting that killed three students didn’t know his victims and chose them randomly, a prosecutor said Tuesday as the young man appeared in juvenile court.

A third student, Demetrius Hewlin, has died Tuesday morning following the shooting rampage at Chardon High School that ended with five shot and one under arrest.

A third student has died after being shot at Chardon High School on Monday. Demetrius Hewlin passed away this morning.

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Russell King Jr. was declared brain dead, although he still has a heartbeat, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's office administrator Hugh Shannon said. Three students wounded in the shooting remain hospitalized.