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ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) – A Washington state student accused of a deadly school shooting had been suspended for bringing threatening notes to school shortly before the attack.
Freeman School District Superintendent Randy Russell tells The Spokesman-Review that the district followed protocol by suspending the student and sending him for a mental evaluation.
The newspaper reported that the shooting occurred on the first day 15-year-old Caleb Sharpe returned from the suspension to Freeman High School in Rockford.
Court documents said he pulled an assault weapon from a bag, but it jammed.
Police said Sharpe pulled a pistol from his coat and shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, Sam Strahan, and wounded three female students.
Sharpe was arrested and has yet to make an appearance in juvenile court.
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