A day after the fatal shooting of a high school student, Ogden School District Superintendent Luke Rasmussen expressed sympathy with friends and family of the teen.

“I just, first and foremost, want to express my condolences to their family and to the student’s friends, how sorry we are that that happened,” he said Wednesday. The incident, he went on, will “really impact our students in our school. It’s going to impact our community.”

He also offered assurances that Ben Lomond High School, where the teen studied and the target of an unrelated hoax bomb threat last week, is a safe place.

“I really feel for the school right now. They’ve had that unfortunate run of events,” he said.

He noted that the 16-year-old victim in Tuesday’s shooting — whom he did not name, but family members id

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