The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Staff Reports
Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 03:52 PM
Spokane Washington School Shooting Kills One, Injures Three; Custodian Stops Further Carnage
The Spokane County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday evening that the custodian approached the suspect at Freeman High School during the incident that morning and ordered him to surrender.
The suspect brought two weapons to the school in Rockford, south of Spokane, but the first one he tried to fire jammed, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told reporters.
"He went to his next weapon," Knezovich said. "A student walked up to him, engaged him, and that student was shot. That student did not survive."
The sheriff said the suspect fired more rounds down the hallway, striking the other students, before the custodian intervened, Knezovich said.