“The why is elusive”
by digby
Are people aware that four of the five kids who were shot in that school shooting near Seattle a couple of weeks ago died one by one since it happened?
I don’t think anyone but the locals are following this story anymore but it’s truly awful. Only one victim survived:
A fourth victim shot by a classmate at Marysville-Pilchuck High School has died at Harborview Medical Center.
Andrew Fryberg, 15, died Friday evening. He had been in critical condition in the intensive care unit at Harborview in Seattle since the shooting two weeks ago.
Fryberg is the fifth student to die, including Jaylen Fryberg, who shot his friends Oct. 24 in the school cafeteria before fatally shooting himself. Zoe Galasso, 14, died that day in the cafeteria. Gia Soriano, 14, died at Everett’s Providence Regional Medical Center two days later, and Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, died at Providence a week after the shooting…
Nate Hatch, the fifth person shot, was released from Harborview on Thursday after undergoing surgery to repair his jaw. The three boys were cousins and enrolled members of the Tulalip Tribes.
It’s been non-stop horror ever since the shooting. And nobody knows why it happened. The story of this kid just doesn’t explain it. It’s like a perfectly normal kid just went nuts one day.
The five students targeted in Friday’s shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School were invited to the cafeteria by the freshman who shot them, authorities revealed Monday.
The 15-year-old shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, texted the other students on Friday morning asking them to all meet him for lunch, Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said during a news conference in Everett.
Once the five were seated at a round table in the school’s main cafeteria, Fryberg opened fire with a handgun, fatally shooting two and wounding three others before taking his own life.
The .40-caliber Beretta handgun used by Fryberg was legally purchased, registered and owned by one of the teen’s relatives, Trenary said.
Trenary said investigators with the Snohomish Multi-Agency Response Team are working to determine how Fryberg obtained the weapon.
He declined to say whether the teen left a suicide message or note, saying investigators were still wading through a “tremendous amount of telephone and text messages.”
The investigation could take months to wrap up and, even then, he said, Fryberg’s motive may never be completely understood.
Described as a “golden boy,” Fryberg was a well-liked member of the football team who a week before the shooting had been crowned freshman homecoming prince. Some believed he could have become a leader of the Tulalip Tribes.
Some students have said he had been experiencing problems with a girl; others indicated he may have had some type of dispute with fellow students. But the victims who were gunned down were relatives and friends of Fryberg’s.
“The question everybody wants is why and quite candidly I don’t know the why is something we can provide,” Trenary said.
Investigations into school shootings all over the country have taught that “the why is elusive,” he said.
But we do know the “how”, don’t we? And the “with what.”
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