tomorrow afternoon in county juvenile court. in december, posting on facebook, lane wrote in a quaint lonely town sits a man with a frown who longed for only one thing, the world to bow at his feet. was that lonely man t.j. lane? and if so, did that lonely man shoot and kill daniel par mentor and wound four others including nate muller you will hear from shortly. here's what nate said to me, quote i almost hope to wake up tomorrow it's monday again, a different monday a better monday, anything but the monday he witnessed today and we're all trying to understand tonight. it was early morning and classes at chardon high school hadn't even begun yet. kids were gathering in the cafeteria. >> at 0738 this morning, our first 911 call came into our station, shots fired at chardon high school. >> another student pulled out a gun. >> he took one shot. he didn't say anything the entire time. he took one shot. that's when we looked to see what was happening. it sounded like a firecracker almost. >> nate muller, police said, was grazed in the ear by one of the shots. >> i saw him shoot and hit one of my other friends that was sitting at the table with us. and then as i was turning around, that's when he hit me. >> in the first chaotic moments, authorities had no idea what was happening. >> we have three students down in the cafeteria. at this time, we still don't know where the shooter is. attention chardon rescue, we have an active shooter at the high school. repeat, active gunshots at the high school. >> anxious parents quickly circled the high school, cell phones to their ears to see and hear what had happened. almost immediately, kids began tweeting, school in a lockdown, kid with a gun read one tweet reported by the daily beast. saw the cops, that's a relief. thank god said another tweet. one student was killed, four were injured. the dead student identified as 16-year-old daniel parmenter. in a statement, his parents said, we are shocked by the senseless tragedy, danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him. the family is torn by this loss. t.j. lane attended an alternative high school called lake academy. and police tonight are saying things could be much worse if authorities hadn't acted as quickly as they did. >> law enforcement was quickly placed inside the school upon arrival. we believe that helped lessen the tragedy that occurred. >> classes tomorrow at chardon high school have been canceled. grief counselors will be standing by. cnn's martin savidge has spent the day in and around the campus and spends the day around the scene. i know you've been focused on the alleged shooter, t.j. lane. what are you learning about him? >> reporter: let me preface that by saying i group in northeast ohio and have family that grew up in chardon when all this occurred. i began to wonder who was this kid, t.j. lane and how and why did he get to the point he pulled out a gun as has been alleged and do what he did. almost cliche. described as a loner, kept to himself. looked different. wore the skinny jean, wore the skater hair, kind of goth-like. came from a broken home, raised by his grandparents, older brother now in prison. on and on, you hear the background of a child that was different. i had an interesting conversation with a young girl who is a rarity in chardon because she actually befriended t.j. here's what she describes in our conversatio conversation. >> i just gravitated towards him. he seemed like my type of person. i noticed that all the kids made fun of him and i thought i just wanted to give him a chance i went and got to know him and he turned out to be a really great person. i think it has a lot to do with his home life and what he had to go through as a child being raised by only his grandparents and not having either parent in his life, you know, from what i understand what he had to go through, his older brother went through. family life plays a lot with your personality and who you become. yes, he was a sweet person but i think that what he went through as a child definitely, you know, changed him and affected him greatly. you know. >> reporter: what makes you say that, from the conversations and the way you interacted as a friend, what gives you that feeling? >> just that i could tell that he was sad a lot of the times. he never -- he never once would want to talk about a personal situation or his life at home. he never want to talk about it or when he would go visit his dad, he would never want to talk about his dad and those times of sadness and not knowing why, you can tell there's something personal going on at home. i had to personally go up to him and break through the wall that he put up towards people, so it took a lot of time to get to know him and for him to even start opening up to me. >> reporter: you said he was picked on. did you see this? do you personally know this? >> yes, i personally know this. kids would make fun of him all the time. in class, in the halls, he'd be made fun of for his hair, for the way he dressed, for being so quiet. kids would just pick on him so much. i always defended him, no matter what, you know. >> how would he take that? >> he would just be quiet or, you know, he wouldn't say anything, just look at the ground or he would just kind of take it and kind of laugh about it, but i could tell that, you know, you can laugh about it but it still hurts. >> did he ever talk of revenge, ever get angry, say he wanted to do something? >> no. not once, you know. he would just, just take it and, you know, sometimes i could see that it really affected him. i feel like when they see what happened on the tv, they will instantly think he's this monster and he's this killer. i just want people to know that he actually was and is a good person, but through all the things that he had to go through, through all his life, through his childhood, through the bullying and people making fun of him and through all of his situation, that it led to what he did. >> so, marty -- >> reporter: i have to point out to you -- sorry, i wanted to say, soledad, she is not defending or condoning in any way what t.j. lane is accused of doing, she is merely a window into his world. she is horrified by what has happened. >> and providing a ton of insight into his background. marty, talk about the community. how is everybody who's living there doing? >> reporter: is the one of those communities people come to chardon because they think they get away from the kind of problems they're now dealing with today, one of the great ironies of what is happening here. a lot of communicating going on. young people, as you already know, connected electronically. candlelight vigils planned and prayers planned. this is a community that had its heart absolutely broke and tonight trying to start the process of healing. many students don't know what it will be like to go back into a classroom when it happens, they know that day will come and with the help of community. >> nate was slightly wounded in the attack, the bullet lightly grazed his ear and he knew t.j. lane and several of the victims and was close to at least one of them. he and i talked by phone. describe for me what happened in the cafeteria. >> caller: we walked into the cafeteria and i had gone over and talked to some of my friends. we -- they had gone to class, so we went back over to our table that we sit at everyday. me and a couple of my other friends that were waiting to get on a bus to transfer us to a different school had just been talking, like a normal day. all of a sudden, we heard a loud bang, almost like a fireworks and we turned around and i saw t.j. standing at the table behind us with his gun pointed and firing. >> he was pointing at you? >> caller: he was pointing in our direction. he wasn't pointed right at me. >> he hit you, the bullet hit you, right, grazed your ear? >> caller: yes. his third shot hit me. his first shot made me look. his second shot, i watched him take, which hit somebody behind me, and his third shot hit me as i was turning away. >> what did you do? >> caller: at that point, i had started running out of the cafeteria and jumped over my friend, nick, who was injured after i left. i made my way out of the school and called the police. >> did you understand what was happening? did he say anything? >> reporte . >> caller: he was silent the entire time. there was no warning or anything. he just opened fire. >> you know him well from school? >> caller: i know him from years befo before, when we used to be friends before he kind of distanced himself from us. >> tell me a little bit about him. >> caller: he-he's a quiet kid. in the past, like few years, but back in middle school, he was always really nice and funny. he was like one of us, one of the guys. he was a normal kid, and we all liked him. nobody really had a problem with us. he was never one to start alter indications or get into drama that was being thrown around him, he kind of went on with his own business. >> when you say he was standing there and not saying a word, what did he seem like? what did he look like? did he look angry? did he look calm? >> caller: his face was expressionle expressionless. i can't even explain it. it looked like he was on a mission and he knew that he was about to do it and he was -- i think he was a little distant from himself. >> any indication of a motivation for the shooting at this point that you know of or that you'd guess at? >> caller: no. i still don't believe there was a motive that i could think of. i think that he just might have snapped from being distant for so long. >> there were some reports that i heard that talked about an ex girlfriend potentially as motivation for him maybe being angry or maybe, you know, feeling somehow that he had lost out on something. do you know about that? >> caller: i do not. i know that there was somebody that he was dating but that's just what i've heard. >> so what was the scene like in the cafeteria? you obviously got out and ran. did it erupt in chaos when the shots started or what happened? >> caller: once everybody realized after the first shot what was happening and everybody could see she was sho-- see he shooting, everybody took a direction and ran. there was no order in the first 30 seconds. everybody tried to do what was best for them. coming up, we'll have more of my interview with nate muell mueller including what he called heroic acts of the teacher in the chaos. rick santorum calls president obama a snob, says the president wants everybody to go to college and college makes people lose their religion. lots to chew on there. is any of it actually based in fact? 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it sounds like your teachers behaved heroically. >> caller: the police were there within 45 seconds after i got off the line with the dispatcher. so they were there immediately. they didn't go into the school right away, but they had started their plan of action as soon as they got there. >> do you feel like your teachers saved other students from being injured or maybe killed? >> caller: i do feel that way. i feel they did the best that they could. and that was good enough for this situation. >> i understand that eventually, they were able to capture the young man and he's in custody. how long did that take and what was the tone like at the school while it was locked down? >> caller: i was actually away from the majority of the classmates that were sent to another school to be held. i was with a smaller group that was sent to the middle school, so i have no idea what the tone was like in the actual high scho school, so i can't answer that. i just know that in our small group, we were concerned and at a loss almost, trying to figure out what was going on through text and facebook and all that nonsense. there was no facts given to us. >> tell me a little bit, if you know more, about t.j. and his background. i mean, is he a kid that comes from a stable family? a kid that has a challenging family situation, do you know? >> caller: i never met his actual family. i knew his older brother had some drug problems, but i never met his parents or anything else like that. >> i know there were a hand full of students injured and one young man is dead in the wake of the shooting. can you tell me a little bit about those students? >> caller: they were innocent victims. my friend, danny, that was the first deat first, and i think i speak with everyone that says there is not one person that deserved it less than danny did because he was the nicest most polite kid on earth. >> what a terrible situation for you. what have they told you at school? obviously, i think, classes are canceled for tomorrow. how are you feeling? do you feel like this has just been unreal? >> caller: it does feel unrealistic. i almost hope i wake up tomorrow and it's monday again, and we could go back. that's how unreal it feels. >> what does happen tomorrow? you obviously won't go to school. what will you do? >> caller: i'll just get on with my day. i'm not really sure what tomorrow is going to bring, keeping the head high, going on with my business. trying to keep everybody else happy. probably go to the hospital and check in on my friends and see how everybody's keeping up. >> do you look now and think, you know, why? i guess, from our vantage point, we always say why would a young man do this? is this something that's running through your mind, trying to figure out what would cause this kid to do this at your school? >> caller: i try not to focus on why he did it as much as what we can do to fix what has been done, to make sure the people that have been injured and the families have been devastated by it get the care and support that they need from us and our community. >> wow, well, thank you for talking with us. i know you have a lot on your plate. we really appreciate your time, nate mueller, who was injured, his ear was grazed by the shooter's bullet. thank you, nate. we appreciate it. >> caller: thank you, too. thanks for having me. >> of course, we will be covering the story into the night and bring you any fresh developments that happen tomorrow morning. an early start and see you for "starting point" tomorrow morning as well. let's check back in with martin savidge in chardon. what is the plan for students tomorrow. school is canceled. >> reporter: right. a number of things have been planned. the flags have been lowered outside the board of education and the high school. grief counselors have been brought in and will be at the middle school and available to any student or anybody who needs to seek them out. tomorrow, a number of events have been planned. a candlelight vigil will begin in 10 minutes and another prayer service at st. mary's church and continual events keep popping up on the social networks. is the a community trying to reach out to one another to heal or try to get over a day many will never forget. >> martin savidge for us this evening. still ahead, on the eve of two big primaries, the claim rick santorum is trying to make about college to try to secure the vote of blue collar republicans. we're "keeping them honest" tonight. also ahead the family of fallen journalist, marie colvin, describes their fight to try to bring her body home from syria. straight ahead. io a ford dealership you'll be presented with one of these. we check the belts, hoses... brakes. tires and the pressures... battery, all your fluids... exhaust system, transmission... we inspect your air filter... it gets done,it gets done quickly and it gets done correctly. the works. oil change, tire rotation and more: $29.95 or less after rebate - at your ford dealer. you're a doctor... you're a car doctor. maybe a car doctor... one chance to hunt down the right insurance at the right price. the "name your price" tool, only from progressive. ready, aim, save! grrr! ooh, i forgot my phone! the "name your price" tool. now available on your phone. get a free quote today. impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? 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