( CNN ) -- Standing just feet from the gunman in Monday 's deadly Ohio school shooting , Danny Komertz has no doubt about what he saw . The Chardon High School freshman was walking with friends when they heard a loud pop . He looked up . `` I looked straight ahead and I saw a gun pointing at a group of four guys sitting a table ... He just fired two quick shots at them . I saw one student fall , and I saw the other hiding , trying to get cover underneath the table , '' Komertz told CNN . `` He was aiming right at them as he was two feet away ... He was n't shooting around the cafeteria at all . He was directly aiming at the four of them , '' he said . Komertz was lucky ; he was n't hit . Five others were when a young man allegedly opened fire on that table of students in the Chardon High School cafeteria , killing one and seriously injuring four . Police arrested the suspected shooter a short time later . They have identified him as a juvenile , and witnesses told CNN the gunman was T.J. Lane , a student . Komertz , 15 , said he heard some five shots -- the last two as he and his friends were running out the doors toward safety . `` I was very scared of what was going to happen so I did n't look at his face . I just looked at the gun and I ran , '' he said . Another witness , Nate Mueller , had his ear grazed by one of the gunman 's bullets . He was sitting at a table next to the suspected shooter . `` All of a sudden we heard a loud bang , almost like a firework . We turned around and I saw T.J. standing at the table behind us with his gun pointed and firing , '' said Mueller . `` His first shot made me look . His second shot I watched him take , which hit somebody behind me , and his third shot hit me as I was turning away . '' Mueller described the gunman as stoic and silent . As he unloaded his weapon , his face was `` expressionless , '' Mueller said . `` There was no warning or anything . He just opened fire . '' Other students recalled being further away from the shooting , but no less scared . Josh Sophacak was walking outside the cafeteria when the first shot fired . `` It sounded like a firecracker ... I paused and everything went into slow motion from there . I guess I was in shock , '' he said . Yet for all the misery caused by Monday 's shooting , witnesses have also described the makings of a hero . Assistant football coach and study hall teacher Frank Hall chased the gunman out of the school , they said . `` Coach Hall , he always talks about how much he cares about us students , his team and everyone . And I think today he really went out and he proved how much he cared about us . He would take a bullet for us , '' said Neil Thomas , a student . Thomas was in Spanish class when the gunshots started . An administrator came over an intercom system to announce a lock down , he said , sending teachers and students scurrying to the corners of rooms for cover . Sophacak similarly hailed the coach as `` heroic . '' Indeed , if not for Hall 's quick response and the readiness of the school , which drills students on what to do in emergencies , Monday 's death toll may have been much higher . `` As bad as it was already , I think it could have been a lot worse , '' said Evan Erasmus , a Chardon senior .
Witnesses at Chardon High School describe feeling scared . ` The school is in the middle of a debate over whether to allow students who are gay or lesbian access to bathrooms and locker rooms. I was in shock , '' says one . An assistant football coach is hailed as a hero . A gunman opened fire in the school cafeteria , killing 1 and injuring 4 .