SEATTLE — Students at Garfield High School, fed up with gun violence, walked out of class Friday afternoon to demand safer school grounds and stricter gun laws.

The teens joined community members dressed in orange to bring awareness to gun violence. It's a time for them to remember the classmates lost to shootings on and off campus, including Amarr Murphy-Paine on the first anniversary of his death.

"[We are] here for the community, mourning the loss of everyone that got shot at Garfield we lost over the years," GHS student Joseph Smith stated. "[These are] kids that really haven’t got to live their life yet after high school died at a young age."

"Even though it’s been a year, it’s been in slow motion for me as a parent, as his mom," Murphy-Paine's mother, Sherrica McCall, told KOMO N

See Full Page