PORTLAND — Sam Kubishta of Griswold High School and McKenzie Rose of the Echo School District recently competed in the National History Day 2021 Virtual Documentary Showcase. They were among
Students comforted each other as the events unfolded inside a school where 1,500 students in sixth through eighth grades attend. We were freaking out a few kids were crying. Some kid was sitting next to me I was trying to rub his back, make him feel better, Maren King, a seventh grader, told Local News 8. Moments before, Maren thought the noises were the school principal s attempt to make a lockdown drill seem more realistic.
Lucy Long also comforted her friends as they lined up against a wall, locked down in their classroom. The sixth-grader told the Post Register newspaper in Idaho Falls that she began recording on her phone so police would know what happened if the shooter came in.
Rigby, ID – Students at Rigby Middle School said that at first they thought their principal had gotten more creative by adding terrifying sounds to a lockdown drill on Thursday after a 6th Grade girl opened fire on her classmates and school staff.
Jefferson County Sheriff Steve Anderson said the girl took a handgun out of her backpack at about 9:15 a.m. on May 6 and opened fire in the middle school’s hallway, the Citizen Times reported.
The girl shot two people inside the school building before she went outside and shot one more person.
A female teacher disarmed the shooter and held her until police arrived, the Associate Press reported.