The shooter who opened fire Friday morning at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High
School
Witness Jordan Luton told, Freshman Jaylen Fryberg was in
the school's cafeteria, went up to a table with students, came up from behind and fired about six bullets into the backs of
them. Luton said they were his friends so it
wasn't just casual.
Authorities said the attacker shot five people, killing one.
A federal law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said
the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Marysville police spokesman Robb Lamoureux told reporters that
there is only one single shooter.
Sgt. Ryan Dalberg of Everett
police told four people were wounded.
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She also said, three are very critically ill with very
serious injuries and One is in serious condition.
A law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation
told the gun used in the shooting has been traced to Fryberg's father. The
source said It is a high capacity one, but did not have an extended magazine.
Investigators are executing a search warrant at the family
home, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A federal law enforcement source with knowledge of the
investigation told a Beretta .40-caliber handgun have been used.
Lamoureux said ,authorities first learned about the shooting
after getting a 911 phone call around 10:30 a.m. from someone inside the
school, which is north of Seattle and Everett.
It was an early lunch break at the school of about 2,500 students
that sits in the heart of Marysville, a small city bisected by the major
thoroughfare connecting the region with Vancouver ,
British Columbia
Once dubbed "Strawberry City'' because of its berry
farms, today Marysville is better known as the home of the Native American
Tulalip Resort Casino.
People started screaming:
when the shooting began, Luton
was sitting two tables away.
Some of the students began to run. But Luton
hit the ground.
"He put some bullets in the back of the students.Then
he turned and looked at me and my girlfriend and kind of gave us a simper.
He said I have no idea what his motive was because yesterday
at football practice, he was all fine, talking having a good timeand then today, just terrible.
I don't know what went through his head or what caused him to do it.
By all accounts, Fryberg was a popular student. Just two
weeks earlier, he had been named as the high school's freshman homecoming prince,.
Fryberg's multiple social media accounts depict him
frequently hunting and using rifles.
Those accounts say he was a Native American and a member of
the Tulalip tribe.
The school was under lockdown for hours before students were
put on buses and sent to a nearby church parking lot, where they were being
reunited with their parents.
It was a fire drill:
The student, whose name is being withheld, said when the
shooting began students initially thought it was a fire drill until teachers
told everyone to run into classrooms because there was a shooting.
The student said she hide in a classroom with other
students, all of whom are uninjured.
A student who says he was in the cafeteria when the shooting
began and called the police, and then gave his phone to a teacher.
The student described a chaotic and bloody scene, blood was everywhere.
He claimed to know the shooter, describing the gunman as a
popular student who recently had been the victim of harassment.
Another student Austin Taylor told that he had just finished
eating when he saw the shooter.
He also said he was just sitting there. Everyone was
talking. All of the sudden, I see him stand up, pull something out of his pocket.
At first, I thought it was just someone making a really loud
noise ...like a big loud pop ... until I heard four more after that. And I saw
three kids just fall from the table.
He said when that happened, I just ran in the opposite
direction, and I was out of there as fast as I could.
Mother of a boy who is a junior at the school Medeana
Johnson told that her son said a boy opened fire near the cafeteria. She said
her son told her he was supposed to be in the cafeteria but stopped to chat
with someone and so didn't go in.
At a glance:
Location: Marysville
Pilchuck High
School ,Marysville, Washington , United States
Date: October 24, 2014
10:39 a.m.–10:42 a.m
Target: Students at Marysville Pilchuck
High School
Weapon: 40-caliber Beretta handgun
Non-fatal injuries: 4
Deaths: 2
Attacker: Jaylen Ray Fryberg