Teacher, 2 Students Shot to Death at Junior High; Boy, 14 Arrested
A 14-year-old boy with a rifle killed a teacher and two students and seriously injured another student inside their junior high school classroom Friday, police said.
The student was arrested shortly after the shootings at Frontier Junior High School, police said.
“Numerous shots were fired and one teacher and three students were shot,” Sgt. Dennis Duke said in a written statement to the media.
A 14-year-old girl who was shot in the abdomen was flown in serious condition to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, about 150 miles to the west, said Tim Cooper, a spokesman at Samaritan Hospital in Moses Lake.
Police wouldn’t release the identities of the suspect or the victims.
The school was evacuated and students were sent home early as parents streamed in to search for their children.
One classmate of the alleged shooter said he wasn’t the kind to make trouble.
“He was an honor student. He was not involved in gangs. He was not in drugs,” the student told KHQ-TV in Spokane on condition of anonymity. “He was a normal student among the rest of us.”
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