Sheriff: School shooter invited victims to lunch

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By GENE JOHNSON and TED WARREN

MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — A popular student responsible for a shooting at a Washington state high school invited his victims to lunch by text message, then shot them at their table, investigators said Monday.

Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said at a news conference that the five students were at a lunch table Friday when they were shot by 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg. Fryberg then committed suicide.

Detectives are digging through reams of text messages, phone and social media records as part of an investigation that could take months, Trenary said.

"The question everybody wants is, 'Why?'" Trenary said. "I don't know that the 'why' is something we can provide."


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Plastic cups sit at memorial Monday, Oct. 27, 2014 at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Wash. The cups cover candles and bear the names of Zoe R. Galasso, right, and Gia Soriano, left, both 14, who were killed when Jaylen R. Fryberg, 15, named on the center candle, opened fire Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, in the school cafeteria before taking his own life. The school will be closed all week. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)


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[calimary]

1. So damn sad.

[Hulk]

2. Pretty twisted and sick....

These stories just get sicker and sicker.

[LovingA2andMI]

3. WOW.....RIP....

[freeplessinseattle]

4. Trying to find the "why" seems to just almost validate there's some reasoning involved

some people are just f**ked up. When there is a standard domestic violence killing investigators don't seem to obsess about the marketer's thought process.

They know abusers are trigger happy, so to speak, control freaks and while attempting to leave the relationship is the most dangerous time, abusers (as I'll bet this kid was) can go ballistic at any moment over any perceived slight, or any unpredictable thing, which is why those relationships are often described as "walking on eggshells".

[ZombieHorde]

10. Maybe we're just products of our enviroment.

Maybe there's a bigger issue here than just one kid being a prick.

Maybe "a society" that stigmatizes the mentally ill, engages in war for over a decade, tortures people, has the most relaxed gun laws in any 1st world nation, imprisons the most people, has the death penalty, outlaws homelessness in some areas, lets poor people die/suffer from lack of healthcare, lets children go hungry, etc., can mess with a person's head.

[ZombieHorde]

12. Maybe if they were kids.

I have a soft spot for kids.

[ZombieHorde]

16. Their community seem to disagree with you.

This isn't about you and your "soft spot", it is about honoring the innocent victims of a senseless attack that stole their lives. It is insulting and disrespectful to their families to include their killer.

From the article you posted...

While families or friends of shooting victims sometimes express sympathy or forgiveness for the perpetrators, the notion of a mass shooter being memorialized alongside his victims is unusual, experts say. It speaks to the unique grief this community is feeling, even in a nation where such horrors are becoming ever more common.

"Usually there's so much anger and frustration and bewilderment in the aftermath, and generally the shooter is not someone who was this loved over time," said Carolyn Reinach Wolf, a mental health attorney who studies mass shootings. "This is a very different response. Some of that is a credit to the community: People are able to get past the grief of the victims and see that the shooter's family is grieving and horrified just as much."

[ZombieHorde]

18. People are morning dead children.

That is all that is happening there.

[Stargazer09]

6. Horrible

I am so sick of gun violence, especially in schools. Kids are supposed to be safe there.

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Still haven't heard how he obtained the pistol n/t

[blackcrowflies]

15. some relative's I read

The house was full of legally owned guns, as I understand it.

[KurtNYC]

9. Like something out of a mafia movie.

This is cold blooded psycho behavior. He spent hours plotting this, getting the gun, planning, etc. and then carries it out on schedule like Rambo on Prozac.

Maybe we put too much faith in pills and guns, and not enough in being present and communicating one to one.