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From Mead to Lewis and Clark and across the state line to Coeur d’Alene High School, students across the region walked out of school for 17 minutes in a show of solidarity for both the survivors and the lives lost in the Parkland school shooting.

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News > Spokane

Freeman High School suspended, evaluated shooter after note was discovered

Sat., Sept. 16, 2017

A parent and a school official confirmed for the first time Friday that the Freeman School District knew Caleb Sharpe had handed notes to students threatening to do something stupid, and that the school responded by suspending him.

News > Spokane

Unbowed by tragedy, Freeman High School finds unity at Friday night game

Sat., Sept. 16, 2017

After tragic school shooting, Freeman High School came together Friday night to celebrate their school, each other and the ties that bind them.

News > Spokane

One victim in Freeman shooting released from hospital

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 15, 2017

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.

News > Spokane

Bullying too simple an explanation for Freeman school shooting, experts say

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 17, 2017

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.

News > Spokane

Signs and warnings failed to prevent Freeman school shooting

Fri., Sept. 15, 2017

Caleb Sharpe began months ago making videos with guns and bragged to several friends when he figured out the combination to his father’s gun safe.

News > Spokane

Thousands gather for community meeting at Freeman High School

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 14, 2017

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.

News > Spokane

Chaps Diner and Bakery opens its door to Freeman families

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 15, 2017

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.

News > Spokane

Knezovich: Societal breakdown to blame for Freeman school shooting

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 14, 2017

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich blamed a breakdown of society, the media and problems with the mental health system for Wednesday’s

News > Spokane

In the space of moments, Freeman High School ripped by violence

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 14, 2017

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.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Shaken community gathers to pray for Freeman families

Wed., Sept. 13, 2017

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.

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