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2007 SuccessTech Academy shooting

Mass shooting in Cleveland, Ohio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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On October 10, 2007, a school shooting occurred at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Two students and two teachers were injured on the fourth floor of the building before the perpetrator, 14-year-old freshman Asa Coon, killed himself inside of a classroom.

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This entry incorporates text from “2007 SuccessTech Academy shooting” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.