CHALLIS – A 43-year-old man was found guilty of lewd conduct with a child after a recent jury trial. Travis Aldridge of Rigby was found guilty on March 31 after a four-day trial presided over by District Judge Stevan Thompson. Aldridge was originally charged in September 2021 with felony lewd conduct with a child under […]
RIGBY — Charges will not be filed in the case of a son who shot his father in their Jefferson County home last year. Randall Fife died after investigators say his 20-year-old son shot him during an argument on Dec. 28 at their Menan home. The son fled the scene and was involved in a […]
First Published: 8:47 AM PDT, May 20, 2021 It was a little girl and my brain couldn t quite grasp that, said middle school math teacher Krista Gneiting who intervened during the school shooting.
A math teacher who stopped a shooting at an Idaho middle school that left two students and a janitor injured earlier this month said that she hugged the sixth-grader allegedly behind the shooting and slowly pulled the gun out of her hand.
Krista Gneiting told ABC News that she was preparing her students for an exam when she heard gunshots ring throughout the hallways.
She then looked into the hallway and saw the janitor lying on the floor and told her students we re going to run to the high school. You re going to run hard, you re not going to look back and now is the time to get up and go.
RIGBY — A Rigby Middle School math teacher who disarmed a student with a gun spoke publicly about the incident for the first time during an interview with Good Morning America Wednesday. Krista Gneiting said she was preparing her students for final exams on the morning of May 6 when she heard a gunshot from […]
May 6 was a terrible day in Rigby.
A shooting at Rigby Middle School sent a janitor and two students to the hospital (thankfully with non-life-threatening injuries).
The events of that day will forever scar the psyches of students, teachers and staff who were on campus as well as those of their loved ones.
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But it could have been so much worse, if not for the actions of one incredibly brave teacher.
Eighth-grade math teacher Krista Gneiting has been rightfully hailed as a hero for her actions in disarming the student. On Wednesday, for the first time, Gneiting told her story of that day to ABCâs âGood Morning America.â