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Washington – At least five people were injured in an Ohio school shooting Wednesday, including two adults and three students.

Four of the victims were directly shot, and a fifth hurt her knee during the fracas at the Success Tech High School, said Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson in broadcast remarks.

Jackson said the two adult men – possibly teachers, aged 42 and 57 – were in more serious condition than the two children, aged 14 and 17, who had been shot.

It was not clear if the 14-year-old shooter suspect had been detained or even killed, as had been reported by a local radio station. CNN said the shooter was dead, but Mayor Jackson declined comment.

The suspect, apparently aggravated over a suspension earlier in the week, entered the school with a gun in each hand and started firing.

The shooting was the latest in a series of violent occurrences at US schools. In April, a disturbed student shot and killed 32 students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia before turning the gun on himself, the worst mass shooting by a lone gunman in US history.

In 1999, two students killed 12 students and a teacher at the Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, before commiting suicide.

Students and parents in the Ohio incident described to CNN how students ran from the gunfire, and hid under desks and in closets. One student who had been shot in the arm called his mother to describe how he was hiding.