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 (CNN) -- It was only after a crowd of screaming students ran past Darnell Rodgers in a stairway at his Cleveland, Ohio, high school Wednesday afternoon that he realized he had been shot.

"They were screaming, "Oh my God! Oh my God,"" said Rodgers, a senior at SuccessTech Academy near downtown Cleveland.

Rodgers suddenly felt his arm "burning," he said, and realized he had been shot in the elbow.

When it was all over, five people had been shot including the teenage gunman who police said shot himself in a classroom.

At around 1:15 p.m., 14-year-old gunman Asa Coon, who was a student at the school, walked the halls firing with a gun in each hand, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGrath said.

Police found a .22- caliber revolver and .38-caliber revolver near Coon"s body, along with a box of ammunition and three knives, said McGrath.

Coon, who had been suspended from the school Monday, shot 57-year-old teacher David Kachadourian in the back and shot a 42-year-old teacher in the chest, officials said.

Investigators have reason to believe the victims were specifically targeted.

"We do not believe this was a random shooting," McGrath said.

"It may have been the teachers he went to the school looking for ... I believe they disciplined him in some manner."

Coon had a previous arrest last year for a domestic violence incident and police had been to his home before for incidents that involved weapons, according to McGrath.

Police searched the gunman"s locker after the shooting and are watching surveillance footage of the school taken at the time of the shooting, he said.

Students described the gunman as being "odd."

Rodgers was treated and released from the hospital, but others were more seriously injured.

Edward Eckart, Commissioner of Cleveland EMS Cleveland said the 42-year-old shot in the chest underwent surgery at MetroHealth Medical Center and was in stable condition at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday.

Fifty-seven-year-old Kachadourian, shot in the back, was in stable condition at 8 p.m. ET, according to MetroHealth.

A 15-year-old male with a gunshot wound to his side was transported to Rainbow Babies and Children"s Hospital where he was in stable condition Wednesday night, Eckart said.

A 15-year-old female with a knee injury was also taken to Rainbow Babies and Children"s Hospital and was in stable condition, Eckart said.

Rodgers spoke to reporters after leaving the hospital Wednesday evening.

He called the shooting "very shocking" and said he was "sad" it could happen at a school he thought was safe.

"I never thought it would personally happen at my school."

Students said they took cover in closets after the school principal announced a "Code Blue" on the intercom.

School activities were canceled as of 5 p.m. ET Wednesday and Thursday classes have been canceled, officials said.

Friday was already going to be a professional day for faculty and will now be devoted to figuring out how to go about resuming classes on Monday.

Cleveland Municipal School District CEO Eugene Sanders said the community and everyone with ties to SuccessTech needs "to take a breather and relax a moment and put this in perspective."

SuccessTech is a nontraditional high school, according to local school officials.

"Since it is a specialty school," it doesn"t have "the typical population of a large high school," said Lisa Matthews of the superintendent"s office.

It is a "school of choice" -- students have to apply to get in, said Ruthie Williams, also of the superintendent"s office. She said classrooms are on the first and third floors of the four-story building and the rest contains the school district"s administrative offices.

The academy describes itself on its Web site as a "small, nontraditional high school that provides a learning environment in which all student believe in their ability to succeed."
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It adds that the curriculum is "problem-based" and "infused" with technology.

SuccessTech is partly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The school does not have metal detectors, said Chief McGrath.

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