Asa Coon - Ohio school shooting some wounded, shooter dead

A 14-year-old shooter is dead and at least five others are wounded in a Cleveland, Ohio high school shooting. Authorities said the teenage student opened fire Wednesday morning at Success Tech Academy High School in downtown Cleveland, injuring three students and two adults. According to one Ohio news station, the shooter was upset about his suspension.
Authorities said the shooter appears to have shot himself. Dozens of concerned parents gathered outside the school, waiting for word about their kids. Several streets around the school were closed while authorities secured the campus.

Charlize Theron - a Cover Girl

Esquire magazine has named Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron as this year's "sexiest woman alive."

The 32-year-old South African native is featured on the cover of the magazine in a simple dark tank top and briefs, which will be due on newsstands next Tuesday.

Theron flaunts her stuff in the revealing Sheryl Nields photo shoot, showing that Esquire knew what they were doing when it came time to find their "sexiest woman."

Also proving that she is more than just a pretty face, Theron took the time to get political in her interview and couldn't resist the opportunity to point a blaming finger at the White House.

"I grew up in a country that learned the lesson that you cant impost your way of life on 26 different kinds of people just because you call yourself righteous," she said. "I think there are lessons this country still has to learn."

Theron's latest film project "Battle in Seattle" is based on the true story of activists protesting the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle and is due in theaters this December. Directed by Stuart Townsend, Theron is joined by fellow acting veterans Woody Harrelson and Ray Liotta.

Teen opens fire in high school

A 14-year-old suspended student opened fire in his downtown high school Wednesday, wounding four people as terrified schoolmates hid in closets and bathrooms and huddled under laboratory desks. He then killed himself.

A fellow student at SuccessTech Academy alternative school said Asa Coon, who was suspended for fighting Monday, had made threats in front of students and teachers last week.

"He's crazy. He threatened to blow up our school. He threatened to stab everybody," Doneisha LeVert said. "We didn't think nothing of it."

Coon was armed with two .38-caliber revolvers, and police found a duffel bag stocked with ammunition and three knives in a bathroom, officials said. Parents were angry that firearms got into a school equipped with metal detectors that students said were intermittently used.

Officials said two teachers and two students were shot, and a 14-year-old girl fell and hurt her knee while running.

Witnesses said the shooter moved through the converted five-story downtown office building, working through the first two floors of administrative offices and up to the third floor of classrooms.

The first person shot, Michael Peek, 14, had punched Coon in the face before the shootings began, said Rasheem Smith, 15.

Antonio Deberry, 17, said he and his classmates hid under laboratory tables and watched the shooter move down the hallway.

Darnell Rodgers, 18, was walking up to another floor when the stairway suddenly flooded with students. "It took me a couple of minutes to realize that I was actually shot," Rodgers said.

He was treated at a hospital for a graze wound to an elbow. The other two injured teens were taken to a children's hospital, which would not release their conditions.

Math teacher David Kachadourian, 57, was treated and released for a minor wound to the back of a shoulder. History teacher Michael Grassie, 42, was in fair condition at a hospital after about two hours of surgery. The nature of the surgery was not disclosed.

Coon had been suspended since Monday for fighting near the school, said Charles Blackwell, president of SuccessTech's student-parent organization. He did not know how Coon entered the building Wednesday.

Blackwell said that there was a security guard on the first floor.

Mark Kamps, sound editor, 44 dies

Mark Kamps, a supervising sound editor at Technicolor and adjunct professor in the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount, died Aug. 24 in Ventura, Calif. He was 44.

A memorial will be held Tuesday, Sept. 18 from 7-9 p.m. at the Cotillion Gallery, 3340 Country Club Dr., Los Angeles.

Kamps Emmy nommed for sound editing for a miniseries, movie or special for the miniseries "Sleeper Cell" and "Desperation" in 2006, and for "The Pretender" in 1999.

Other projects he worked on as supervising sound editor include "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Empire," "Brotherhood," "Dexter" and "Criminal Minds."

Born in Phoenix, he was a member of the Editors Guild.

He is survived by his father, Richard; his companion, Lucile and two brothers.

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