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** FILE ** Seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane is led from juvenile court by sheriff's deputies in Chardon, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, after his arraignment in the shooting a day earlier of five high school students, three of whom died. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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**FILE** In this 1999 file family photo provided by the Center for Constitutional Rights, Majid Khan gestures during his senior year of high school in Baltimore. The former Maryland resident is accused of joining al Qaeda and plotting to blow up fuel tanks in the U.S. (Associated Press/The Khan Family, Center for Constitutional Rights)

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Bouquets of flowers sit on the sign in front of the high school in Chardon, Ohio, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. A gunman opened fire inside the school's cafeteria at the start of the school day Monday. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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T.J. Lane, a suspect in Monday's shooting of five students at Chardon High School, is taken into juvenile court by Geauga County deputies in Chardon, Ohio, on Tuesday. Three of the five students wounded in the attacks have since died. (Associated Press)

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Students and parents pray for victims of a school shooting on the square in Chardon, Ohio, on Tuesday. A gunman opened fire inside the Chardon High School cafeteria at the start of the school day on Monday. The community offered grief counseling to students, staff and others at area schools. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Yoga teacher Kyoko Katsura demonstrates the handstand scorpion pose. Some want to see competitive yoga posing in the Olympics.

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associated press PHOTOGRAPHS An Ohio State Highway patrol helicopter leaves Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, on Monday after a gunman opened fire inside the high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day. One student was killed, and four were wounded by the shooter. A suspect was captured and is in custody.

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Flags fly at half-staff in front of the town hall in Chardon, Ohio, on Monday for the victims of a school shooting. At the school, teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear.

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President Obama told his audience at a gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House Monday that higher education includes a community college degree for a skilled manufacturing job and not just a four-year degree. (Associated Press)

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An Ohio State Highway patrol helicopter leaves Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, on Monday after a gunman opened fire inside the high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day. One student was killed, and four were wounded by the shooter. A suspect was captured and is in custody. (Associated Press)

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Flags fly at half-staff in front of the town hall in Chardon, Ohio, on Monday for the victims of a school shooting. At the school, teachers locked down their classrooms as they had been trained to do, and students took cover as they waited for the all-clear.

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Silvia Mancia, grandmother of Joanna Ramos, 10, (inset left) an elementary school student who died on Friday after a fight with another student, arrives at a makeshift memorial at the Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, Calif., on Monday. (Associated Press)

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Tiffany Adams, an 11th-grader at Ballou High School in Washington, D.C., recites her poem at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday during the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's poetry slam competition. She was the runner-up in the contest that commemorated Black History Month. The competition included 14 local high school students. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Doug Gasper, a ninth-grader at Chardon High School, is hugged Feb. 27, 2012, by his mother, Sandy, as they leave Maple Elementary School in Chardon, Ohio. Students assembled at Maple Elementary School after a gunman opened fire inside the high school's cafeteria at the start of the school day, wounding four students, officials said. (Associated Press)

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A photo of Joanna Ramos with a note memorializes the 10-year-old girl outside Willard Elementary School in Long Beach, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Students leave with their parents from Maple Elementary School after a shooting at Chardon High School on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, in Chardon, Ohio. A suspect is in custody. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

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President Obama speaks Feb. 23, 2012, to students at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks Feb. 23, 2012, to students at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla. (Associated Press)

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Testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in Washington are (from left) Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.; the Rev. Matthew C. Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; C. Ben Mitchell, Graves professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.; Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center of Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University in New York; and Craig Mitchell, associate professor of ethics of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Students hold hands as they are led along a walkway at Armin Jahr Elementary School in Bremerton, Wash., following the shooting of an 8-year-old female student there on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)