Students, family react following Ingraham High School shooting

School is canceled through Thursday at Seattle's Ingraham High School following Tuesday's shooting that left one student dead.

Hundreds of parents stood in the cold outside Ingraham High School Tuesday morning, waiting to be reunited with their children. Deanna Meyerhoff was one of the first parents to arrive at the school after she got text messages from her son saying that there was a shooting inside.

“So my son texted me," Meyerhoff said. "He said, 'School shooting.' That's all he said. I was like, 'Is it at Ingraham?' He's like, 'Yeah, there's a guy bleeding out outside my classroom.' And so I just was like, 'Oh my God,' and I jumped in the car.”

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Ingraham senior Drevin Hiquiana said he was with friends when he heard the gunshots at IHS.

"None of this should have happened," he said. "Like all unnecessary things happened. It was just all bad all over. I don't know."

Senior Amerino Fennell told KUOW that he could hear the desperation in the voices of school officials as they announced over the intercom that the entire school was going into lockdown. He said officials need to do more to keep students safe.

"How did the gun get into the school? Right?" Fennell said. "Nothing's being done. I mean ... we can't react to a shooting like this after the fact, like, it has to be done preemptively to prevent it from happening."

About two dozen people attended a vigil Tuesday night at Haller Lake United Methodist Church.

The student who was killed was shot inside a school hallway. Police have arrested one person accused of the shooting, and have recovered one gun that might have been used. Seattle Police say they are looking over security camera footage and interviewing students who were at the scene.

Officials still have not released the name of the victim or the suspected shooter they have in custody.