Nobody Loved Asa

Two days prior to yesterday's shooting at Success Tech High School, in the city center of Cleveland, Ohio, Asa Coon was suspended for fighting with another student. On Wednesday, he shot four people- none of them seriously- then shot himself to death.


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Asa Coon walked in the school Wednesday, and caused rampage and chaos. But this rampage and chaos had a beginning- at home.

Asa was abused- I don't know if both parents abused him, or if just one of them did. But then Asa apparently retaliated by striking his mother numerous times, and he was placed on probation and placed in a juvenile detention hall.

But Wednesday's events has students, parents, teachers, and the Cleveland school superintendent scratching their head over why this happened. Angry parents petitioned for the Success Tech school to have more security guards, given its' central city location and most of the student body being of low income students.

More lives could have been lost in this.

Still, I mourn for the one troubled 14-year-old soul who appeared to be lost from the day he was born.

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