ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) – Armed with a pistol and rifle, classmates say the shooter’s face “was passive” in the hallway of a high school in a tiny Washington state town. He tried to fire a weapon, but it jammed, and another boy confronted him.
“He went to his next weapon,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said. “A student walked up to him, engaged him, and that student was shot. That student did not survive.”
Three other students were seriously injured by gunfire Wednesday morning at Freeman High School south of Spokane. A custodian stopped the shooter, a heroic action the sheriff said prevented more bloodshed. The injured victims were expected to survive.
The suspect, who a classmate described as being obsessed with previous school shootings, was taken into custody.
Witnesses described a panicked scene when shots rang out, with bullets hitting the ceiling and students screaming and running down the hallway.