On the morning of September 13, 2017, 15-year-old Samuel Sam David Strahan was killed at Freeman High School in Rockford, Washington, when a fellow student opened fire in a second-floor hallway shortly after 10 a.m. The shooter brought an AR-15 rifle and a pistol; when the rifle jammed he used the pistol. Sam stepped forward to confront the shooter in an effort to protect classmates and was struck in the abdomen and then the face. Witnesses say his intervention prevented further loss of life.

After Sam was shot, the assailant continued down the hall, wounding three female students before being subdued by a school custodian and taken into custody by a school resource officer. The community mourned a student described by family and friends as having a great sense of humor; the Strahan family had suffered another recent loss when Sam’s father died on Father’s Day that same year.

Did anyone at Freeman High or in the Rockford area know Sam, his friends, or have information about that day that could add to the record?