Police: Two dead in shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School - Video

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http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/shooting-reported-at-marysville-pilchuck-high-school/


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Two students are dead at Marysville-Pilchuck High School Friday morning after one of them opened fire in the cafeteria before turning the gun on himself, according to law-enforcement sources.

Police have not released details, but there are reports of four other people shot about 10:45 a.m.

Austin Joyner, a student at the school, said on Twitter that he saw the shooter come into the cafeteria, walk over to a table, pull out a gun and shoot 4 to 6 students who were sitting there.

Four of the injured were taken by ambulance to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, including one with a head wound. A Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman said they were expecting one victim there, though it wasn’t clear if that person was being transferred from Providence.

At a noon news conference, Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureaux called the scene an active investigation and said police officers are still going door-to-door to ensure the school campus is safe. They are leaving tape to mark the doors of the rooms that have been cleared. Officers are finding students and staff members hiding alone or in small groups.

“We are confident that there was only one shooter and that the shooter is dead,” Lamoureaux said. He did not confirm reports of injuries. Students were reporting that he was a freshman.

Some of the school’s 1,200 students were being evacuated from the school, walking out and across the fields with their hands up. Others were being told to stay inside classrooms.

Some were bused to the nearby Shoultes Gospel Hall, where they are being accounted for. Lamoureaux urged parents and family members of students to stay away from the scene, saying authorities would provide information on a location for them to be reunited with students.

At the church, tearful parents and students were being reunited, and hugging.

“I never thought I would be standing here after a school shooting,” said Heather Parker, whose son, Corbin, is a senior. “He’s pretty shook up. He just said ‘I’m okay.’ He was trying to calm me down.”

Adam Holston, 14, a freshman, was just leaving the lunch room when the gunfire broke out. “Everyone just started running. I could hear the gun shots and my heart was racing and we didn’t know what was going on.”

Some ran out to the parking lot, some to the field.

“Someone opened a door and we all ran into classrooms and just stayed there.”

He said all kids have been loaded on buses now. His sister is a senior. He’s been texting with her and she OK.

“The person who everyone thinks did it was just acting normally. It didn’t seem like there was anything wrong.”

Jery Holston has two children in the school now communicating with him by cell phone. They are both OK. Adam is a freshman; Kayliegh is a senior.

Holston said Adam called him this morning yelling, “Dad, dad, hurry, someone is shooting. Please come.” He said his son ran and hid outside in the field by the stadium.

Jery was in Stanwood at the time. “I probably did a hundred miles per hour to get there. I didn’t stop for anything. My heart went into my stomach. As a father, this has been my fear since my kids have been in school, that something like this would happen.”

Ayn Dietrich-Williams, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Seattle, said agents are on their way to Marysville to offer assistance.

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[shenmue]

1. Mercy

[tk2kewl]

2. .

[villager]

3. "As a father, this has been my fear since my kids have been in school, that something like this...

would happen.”

More evidence that America is a "failed state" (that failure is just working itself out in slower-motion here than in other places).

A parent has this as a routine fear because of conditions here -- the rage, the easy access to guns, the corrupting lobby of the death merchants, the craven and useless political class, etc.

And nothing is done.

And nothing will be done.

Except for more shootings.

[RKP5637]

5. The US has become a pretty lame country in solving problems, and the solutions by fools is

yet more guns. Just WTF kind of society is the US trying to build. Disgusting!

[villager]

8. Nothing is being "built" here, in terms of society. It is fraying.

And with the coming effects of climate change, will continue to do so.

[RKP5637]

10. Agree! We're living through the last days of it IMO. Relative to the climate, it's

probably too late. The country today is running on borrowed time IMO. And most actions taken are just band-aids trying to prop up a failing country.

[raccoon]

22. Exactly, and yet the idiot media is trying to scare everybody about Ebola. nt

[Peacetrain]

4. Prayers sent for all ...

[Botany]

6. America has had 87 school shootings since Sandy Hook.

And no doubt right now the NRA is having meetings on how to manage this
latest bloodshed.

[RKP5637]

12. Bottom line, the big picture! Disgusting!

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/16/16547690-just-the-facts-gun-violence-in-america?lite

So, people get all upset about 3,000 sadly dead at 9/11, but for some, apparently, the below is perfectly OK.

The big picture:

Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence.

Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot. Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports.

Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns -- more than the population of St. Louis, Mo. (318,069), Pittsburgh (307,484), Cincinnati, Ohio (296,223), Newark, N.J. (277,540), and Orlando, Fla. (243,195) (sources: CDF, U.S. Census; CDC)

One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC)

[mahannah]

7. Gun violence is not a legitimate public health issue?

[ballardgirl]

14. Washington state is currently voting

1) to expand background checks, or
2) to end background checks

I'm sure the asshats that want #2 will come up with the usual crap that this would not have happened if everyone had guns. These kids were eating their lunches and didn't have any warning. Just horrible.

[ballardgirl]

9. This is sickening

I know many kids who went to that school and spent some good hours there at sport events. We are hearing locally that only the shooter is dead, self inflicted. Three others are in very critical condition at a nearby trauma 2 hospital and a fourth was taken to a hospital in Seattle. Marysville-Pilchuck High School is about 35 miles North of Seattle.

[LeftOfWest]

11. Lamoureux (Marysville Chief) confirms 2 dead

a few minutes ago in a live presser. Said he would not say if second death was student or staff. I can see MPHS from the deck I am standing on right now. It is sickening and sickeningly quiet all around here as well. Friday afternoon, usual Friday noon release from school, usual activities, not...it so quiet.

We are all kind of numb standing here, bet you are too.

Waiting for the names.

Huge school, spread out too.

2:30 presser next on schedule.

[yuiyoshida]

13. From Twitter..

https://twitter.com/BRios82/status/525727325082886145

[amandabeech]

15. The shooter was a freshman named Jaylen Fryberg.

Witnesses have said that he was a popular freshment. CNN also reports that he was Native American.

No reason given for the shooter's actions.

[jtuck004]

21. "I have no idea what his motive was because yesterday at football practice, he was all fine, talking

.... having a good time," he said. "And then today, just horrible. 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, according to a YouTube video of the ceremony and accounts provided by students to CNN.

Not one of the trench coat wearing crew, or those who are are told to watch, the easily identifiable. Now it's just the kid next to you.

[amandabeech]

23. All in all, a very sad and troubling incident.

His girlfriend broke up with him, but then how many break-ups happen in high school without an accompanying death?

[jtuck004]

16. We killed any kids with drones today, any cops use excessive deadly force, standard excuses?

Wonder where they pick this shit up?

[otohara]

17. Lets Do Nothing Again and Again

Merika

[Thespian2]

18. If Madison

and other founders of America had foreseen the murder and mayhem caused by guns, the second amendment would not have been written as it is. They should have defined the term "militia" more clearly. Simple fact that America has taught the world: give people guns, and they will kill each other. So sad once again for this latest tragedy. Bat-shit crazy NRA types will find an excuse for more deaths and violence.

[Docross]

19. Marysville in my back yard..

Marysville is a beautiful quiet smaller town 45 miles north of Seattle or about 60 miles north of me.
These people don't live in the woods. It's near Tulalip Bay and the Tulalip Indian reservation.
They have one of the most beautiful and elegant Casino/hotels. Nice people and not much trouble there.
The Indians do still hunt and fish.. There is also very little prejudice towards Native Americans in
Washington State.

This is so strange.

[freeplessinseattle]

20. My colleague went to that school, feeling pretty freaked out

Is a little unsettling to see your old high school on the news like this. A small community, and though both her parents work at the hospital the victims are at, the extent of the facial injuries make it hard to identify them so she doesn't even know if they are former neighbors or relatives.

[defacto7]

24. Locking

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