Medical Examiner says Peperzak Middle School student died of gunshot to the head

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane County Medical Examiner has determined the cause of death for a 13-year-old shot and killed over the weekend.

According to the Medical Examiner, Gavin Looper died by homicide from a gunshot wound to the head.

Looper was shot early Saturday morning while playing video games at a home in Spokane’s Hillyard neighborhood.

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Looper’s family says a drive-by shooting happened around 2:40 a.m. and Looper was shot from the backdoor.

Looper was an eighth-grade student at Peperzak Middle School, and the school is providing additional grief counselors in the wake of this death.

4 News Now has reached out to Spokane Police for more information but no other investigative details have been provided.

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