Freshman Danny Komertz, who tells the Associated Press he witnessed the shootings, says it appeared the gunman was targeting a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table. Komertz, 15, says one student who authorities say was killed was trying to get under a table to protect himself and shield his face. Komertz tells the AP the shooter was known as an outcast who had apparently been bullied. Komertz says that there were at least 100 students in the cafeteria at the time and that most fled immediately as shots were fired.
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One high school junior, Nate Mueller, who was hit in the right ear during the shooting, tells The Plain Dealer that he used to be friends with the shooter in middle school.
He tells the newspaper that he heard a shot behind him, turned and felt a sting on his ear. "My friends were crawling on the floor, and one of my friends was bent over the table, and he was shot," Nate says. "It was almost like a firecracker went off. I turned around and saw him ... standing with a gun and I saw him take a shot."
Mueller says one of his friends, Russell King, who was at the table with him, recently started dating one of the suspect's former girlfriends, who is home-schooled. He says the shooter was "silent the whole time."
Mueller tells the paper that he ran out of the building, hid behind a car and called 911.
