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The SuccessTech Academy shooting was a school shooting that occurred on October 10, 2007, at the SuccessTech alternative high school in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, during which a suspended student shot two students and two teachers before committing suicide in the fourth floor of the building.

The school subsequently faced criticism for the lax on security and prevention of the shooting in which Coon had made threats of violence prior to the shooting towards students.

Shooting
Asa H. Coon entered the five-story school building shortly before 1:00 p.m. EST, armed with two handguns: .22 and .38-caliber revolvers, and a box of additional rounds of ammunition for each gun; three tactical folding knives were also in Coon's possession, which were all stocked together in a duffel bag. Coon walked into the fourth floor of the building and entered the men's restroom where he loaded the two revolvers with shotshell ammunition. The shooting began at about 1:06 p.m. in the fourth floor of the building. The first person shot was Michael Peek, 14, a student, who suffered injuries to the abdomen from trying to disarm Coon by punching him in the face. Another student, Darnell Rodgers, 17, suffered a graze wound to the elbow by a shot fired in the hallway. Michael Grassie, a social studies teacher, was shot in the chest while being confronted by Coon in his classroom. A second teacher, David Kachadourian, suffered injuries to the back of the shoulder while in a hallway escorting his students to safety. After the shooting, Coon entered another room where he placed the .38-caliber revolver to his head, fatally shooting himself. In total, eight rounds were fired throughout, striking and injuring four people.

Grassie had been released from the hospital on

Motive
Asa Coon had been placed on a three-day suspension two days prior to the shooting for an altercation with another student regarding the existence of God. According to Coon's uncle, Larry Looney, Coon said he was upset because the teachers would not listen to what he had to say regarding the fight. According to fellow students and teachers, Coon had apparently been the target of bullying by fellow students at the school for his Gothic-style appearance and eccentric behavior, and had made threats of violence in front of students and teachers the week before the shooting. Teacher Michael Grassie, one of the shooting victims, stated that Coon was failing his World History class and had been disruptive in class. Juvenile Court records show that Coon had a history of mental health problems and threatened to commit suicide in a mental health facility in 2006.

Aftermath
A crime scene photo taken of the gunman after his suicide was allegedly leaked to the public via a Cleveland radio disc jockey from Rover's Morning Glory show. Cleveland police officer Walter Emerick took the picture using his cell phone camera. Classes throughout the Cleveland Metropolitan School District were canceled the day after the shooting, and classes at SuccessTech Academy did not resume until Tuesday, October 16.

Less than a week after the shooting, Cleveland's public school system established an anonymous hotline for students to report threats and dangerous behavior. The school system also announced plans to install metal detectors in all its schools and hire additional armed security guards to patrol the campuses. Schools were instructed to implement additional security precautions, to be reviewed by a professional security firm.