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>> 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...

>> 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 a...

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...

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 soc...

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. t...