Suspected Washington School Shooter Wanted to ‘Teach Everyone a Lesson’ About Bullying

(ROCKFORD, Wash.) — A 15-year-old boy accused of shooting four classmates at a rural high school in Washington state had been meeting with a school counselor over suicidal thoughts before bringing two guns from home and killing a student he said had bullied him, according to court documents released Thursday. The documents and his classmates detailed troubling behavior by Caleb Sharpe, saying he brought notes to school about doing “something stupid,” was obsessed with past school shootings and posted videos online showing him playing with guns. Sharpe, a sophomore at the school of 300 students, also had left a suicide note at home for his parents, the records said. Freeman High School in the tiny town of Rockford has not responded to calls for comment on how they dealt with Sharpe’s behavior outside of counseling for his suicidal thoughts. He took an assault weapon and a handgun from his father’s gun safe, to which he knew the combination, and brought them in a duffel bag to the school south of Spokane Wednesday, an investigator for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office wrote in an affidavit. He pulled out the AR-15 rifle and tried to fire it in a hallway but it jammed, the records said. That’s when a classmate approached Sharpe. “I always knew you were going to shoot up the school,” the student said before Sharpe shot him in the head and abdomen with the handgun, according to the documents. Sharpe told police that he had b...
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