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Gunman nabbed, 4 injured at Ohio high school

A gunman is in custody following a shooting at an Ohio high school in which four students are reported injured. The shooting occurred around 7:30 a.m. at Chardon High School in northeastern Ohio, about 30 miles east of Cleveland. Chardon is a city of about 5,100. Updated at 10:09 a.m. ET: A parent, Jeannette Roth, tells theCleveland Plain Dealer that he son, Joshua, a junior, was in the cafeteria when the shooting occurred. Joshua tells her that students were eating breakfast when a boy "stood up and starting shooting, and then it was chaos." Update at 9:59 a.m. ET: WKYC quotes the FBI as confirming that the suspected gunman --believed to be a student -- is in custody. Update at 9:54 a.m. ET: One parent, Teresa Hunt, tells CNN that she heard about the shooting in a text from her daughter around 7:45 a.m. Her daughter reported that she and other students were locked in a classroom but heard five shots down the hallway. The daughter, whose name was not given, said the shots came from the cafeteria at the other end of the building and down the hall from her classroom. "I believe she was sitting on the floor with another friend," Hunt says of her daughter. "The last time I talked to her she was crying, she was trembling." Update at 9:42 a.m. ET: School Superintendent Joseph Bergant II tells WKYC-TV that the alleged shooter is in custody. Television news footage showed anxious parents escorting children away from a school building and multiple ambulances could be seen outside. Update at 9:37 a.m. ET: The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a local official as confirming that four students were injured --three boys and a girl. The newspaper says four ambulances were waiting at the door of the high school. Update at 9:35 a.m. ET: WKYC reports that the lockdown at Chardon High School has been lifted. Update at 9:29 a.m. ET: Officials say students were shot at a high school in the Ohio and a suspect is in custody. Update at 9:23 a.m. ET: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, quoting a waiting parent, Jessica Bryant, reports that the shooting apparently occurred in the cafeteria. Bryant tells the paper that her daughter, Allison, witnessed the shooting and informed her by text message. Update at 9:13 a.m. ET: WKYC reports that two or three of the wounded have been taken by Metro LifeFlight from the parking lot of the nearby Wal-Mart. WKYC says there are reports of students have barricaded themselves in various rooms throughout the school. Update at 9 a.m. ET: A sheriff's office is confirming a shooting at a northeastern Ohio high school, the Associated Press reports. Civil deputy Erin Knife with the Geauga County Sheriff's Office says the shooting was reported around 7:30 a.m. today at Chardon High School. Knife says a single person suspected in the shooting has left the school but is not in custody. Schools in the area are locked down. Chardon is about 30 miles east of Cleveland.

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