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.