Things to Know Now About the School Shooting in Washington State

The shooting suspect, whom police have not identified publicly, was apprehended after the shooting at Freeman High School in Rockford, near Spokane.

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.

The teenage suspect also posted several YouTube videos in which he and another youth appeared to be shooting at each other with some kind of guns, NBC News has confirmed. Strahan was later pronounced dead.

Luis Prito, an assistant football coach at Freeman High, called the shooting devastating.

Classes at a Washington junior high school returned to normal Wednesday afternoon after a lockdown in the morning hours. “He was walking around”, Elisa Vigil, a 14-year-old freshman, told the Spokesman-Review. The suspect is in custody at the Spokane County jail. We are keeping Sam’s family in our thoughts and prayers. He told investigators he believed he shot three more students, but didn’t intentionally target any of them. A custodian is credited for stopping the suspect.

“We still have conflicting stories on what happened next but it sounds like some very courageous action on behalf of a Freeman School District employee stopped this active shooter situation”, Knezovich said.

The sheriff says a student approached the shooter and attempted to block him before he was shot and killed.

The sheriff said a deputy who works as a school resource officer arrived shortly thereafter and took the shooter into custody.

He was coldly killed by a single bullet to the head and the gunman continued shooting before Bowen intervened.

Bowen did not respond to requests on Thursday morning. The documents say Sharpe then fired down the hallway, wounding three other students.

KREM-TV writes that a parent from the high school said the suspect and the fatal victim were known as “best friends”.

Sharpe’s mother told detectives there was a suicide note written by Caleb inside their house that was written more than a week before the shooting.

‘I always knew you were going to shoot up the school, ‘ the student said, according to court documents released Thursday.

Dr. Michael Moore, chief of surgery at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, described the injured patients as in their mid-teens and said all were “doing well”. It’s the same online campaign the family started for memorial donations when Sam’s father, Scott, unexpectedly died on Father’s Day.