Posted September 14, 2017 9:30 am by Comments

By Jennifer Cruz

The school shooting rocked the tight-knit community of only a few hundred residents. (Photo: Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A Washington high school student is in police custody after he opened fire in the hallway of his school Wednesday morning, killing one student and seriously injuring three more.
Authorities have not released the identities of either the suspect or the victims and said that information would be released when and if appropriate.
According to a press release from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, the shooting occurred around 10 a.m. at Freeman High School in Rockport, about 20 miles south of Spokane. Initial reports indicate the deceased victim approached the suspect and attempted to talk him out of pulling the trigger before he was shot in the head. The suspect continued to fire down the hallway of the school, striking three more students, but at that point, the suspect’s gun jammed.
“This would have been a lot worse if it didn’t,” Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said of the jammed gun, also noting that the suspect was armed with multiple firearms, which he apparently carried to the school in a duffel bag.
“That student came to school armed,” Knezovich said. “He entered the school. He proceeded to take

Source: Guns.com

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