One Student Killed in Spokane-Area High School Shooting
Several of you posted elsewhere about this sad and tragic occurence. From the Seattle Times:
1) Where did he get not one but two weapons? Given it's a rural area, I suspect it might have been his own rifle.
2) The boy who was killed - who tried to stop him - is a hero. You can imagine that if your own child was friends with someone in that kind of situation, your child might say, "Hey buddy, calm down. What's up?"
It's hard to know what to tell your child to do. Always run? Try to talk someone down?
3) How does this affect a school community? I note that in another story, the Times reported that Marysville School District was offering help and advice from their own tragedy.
Armed with a pistol and rifle, classmates say the shooter’s face “was passive"in the hallway of a high school in a tiny Spokane-area 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.This story does evoke the usual questions.
1) Where did he get not one but two weapons? Given it's a rural area, I suspect it might have been his own rifle.
2) The boy who was killed - who tried to stop him - is a hero. You can imagine that if your own child was friends with someone in that kind of situation, your child might say, "Hey buddy, calm down. What's up?"
It's hard to know what to tell your child to do. Always run? Try to talk someone down?
3) How does this affect a school community? I note that in another story, the Times reported that Marysville School District was offering help and advice from their own tragedy.
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