“Waiting to hear gunshots”: South Salem students describe anxiety, trauma as school locked down following shooting

The industrial freezer in South Salem High School’s culinary classroom remains covered in handprints, left when students pushed the 600-pound appliance against a door to barricade themselves.

They were reacting, as trained, to a school lockdown initiated by a shooting involving students blocks from the school.

Teacher Laura Hofer hadn’t gotten around to wiping off the appliance five days after the incident.

There was never a shooter or other violence on campus. The March 7…