until you talk to your son or daughter you don t know what s happened. reporter: witnesses say the gunman targeted a group of classmates in the school cafeteria. a bullet grazed nate mueller s ear. you see glasses of your friends laying all over the place, there s people screaming, everybody s running in different directions and you re just trying to get out. reporter: his friend was killed. the junior was waiting in the cafeteria for a bus to take him to a nearby voshgs school where he was studying computer science. i saw a kid holding a gunpointing it towards a group of kids and getting ready to press the tigger. reporter: this freshman was just ten feet away from the shooting. i looked up and he shot two more and it hit a group, hit a kid and he fell and another kid was hiding under the table, took cover. reporter: do you remember the look of the gunman s face? i never looked at his face. i just looked at the gun. i still can t think about it all because
pelley: good evening. we start tonight with a story that sent a chill through parents today parents who send their kids to school trusting and hoping that they will be safe. but in one of those schools, a high school in ohio today, the worst happened. the police say a student opened fire on classmates leaving one dead and four others wounded two of them in critical condition. it happened at chardon high school, 30 miles south of cleveland. it will alleged shooter is a teenaged boy said to be in custody tonight. we have late word from law enforcement sources that a day or two ago he told his classmates something of his plans but those classmates didn t take him seriously michelle miller is on the scene tonight. michelle? reporter: scott, police are withholding the name of the suspect because he is a juvenile but he is said to be cooperating with authorities and told investigators that he stole the gun from his uncle. we have an active shooter at the high school. repo
me. jodi, your action to when you hear one of john s friends say, you know, i did pick on him, and i m sorry. well, my reaction is that this is the problem. i ve traveled the nation s schools speaking inside schools, and my message is that it s not just joking around. you are damaging each other for life. and until schools communicate that message effectively to kids, we are going to continue to see this problem. and when this bully said, you know, i never really hated him, that s the sad part. when i was bullied mercilessly by my classmates, i really believed they hated me, and it took me years to realize they never hated me, i was just different, and that s the problem. it is not just joking around and schools must use every means possible to communicate this to students. jane: most everybody that has gone through school has dealt
and you ve got to get a group of friends for this child. contact the park district and the library, the nearest next town over that does not feed into your child s school. get a list of organized activities for kids, have your child pick the one he or she would like to participate in and enroll them, but it s got to be a district where the kids don t go because the purpose is a new social life and brand new faces. jane: a whole new group. this is vital because every night, every night that a bullied child cries themself to sleep, jane, they are one breath closer to suicide. that interim social life literally is a lifeline. jane: jodi blanco, good advice. thank you. trace: drill, baby, drill. maybe. the president s proposal for opening offshore areas for drilling is causing a battle among senate democrats. and brand new polls means bad new bad news. congressional democrats approval is at its lowest rating
carmichael, hanged himself over the weekend. apparently, his family says he had been bullied and teased by his classmates because he was so much smaller than the other kids. one of those classmates who says he was john s friend but did pick on him is now talking. take a listen. i did bully him, you know? but it was just both of us just messing around. you know, i never did it because i hated him. jane: this all comes just after another high-profile bullying case out of boston, you ve probably heard about phoebe prince who killed herself because she was the target of harassment for months. the da has filed criminal charges against nine students. in the meantime, the administrator of that school is defending his officers there saying it took the school really ultimately took strong action in phoebe s case. our guest knows all too well what it s like to be bullied, her name is jodi blanco, and she has written books on this topic including the ones you see there, please stop laughing at