A sophomore boy brought a rifle and a handgun to Freeman High School just as classes were starting, killing one student and seriously injuring three others, according to witnesses and investigators.
A mother left her car on Highway 27 in Rockford to run to Freeman High School to find her children Wednesday after a fatal shooting was reported there. Someone then broke into her car, stole her purse and has racked up $36,000 in fraudulent purchases.
One of the teenage girls shot and injured in Wednesday’s school shooting was released from the hospital Thursday, according to a hospital news release.
When Caleb Sharpe told police he opened fire on his Freeman High School classmates to “teach everyone a lesson about what happens when you bully others” his story fell into a simple, and oft-repeated formula.
What seemed to be every resident in southern Spokane County packed into the Freeman High School gym Thursday evening to hear an update on the shooting that rocked the school Wednesday and get information on how to move forward.
Chaps Diner and Bakery was closed to the public Thursday, but open – and free – for everyone in the Freeman community and emergency responders following the Wednesday shooting that killed one student and injured three others.
The guns used by a Freeman High School student to kill a classmate and wound three others were taken from his father’s gun safe, according to court documents.
He arrived with a warning for his friends. In a note, he told them he planned to do “something stupid.” Just after 10 a.m. Wednesday, his promise was kept and a community was left with a dead son, daughters in the care of trauma surgeons and grief not known before in Spokane.
Hundreds gathered for vigils in Fairfield and Spokane Wednesday night to pray for the students wounded and killed in a shooting at Freeman High School earlier that day.
