Everett Daily Herald, June 06, 2014

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1 killed in shooting The gunman, reportedly a Mountlake Terrace man, was subdued by a student after opening fire at SPU in Seattle. By Manuel Valdes and Phuong Le

spray as he tried to reload, police said. KCPQ reported that law enforcement sources late Thursday identified the suspect as Aaron Ybarra, 26, of Mountlake Terrace. A student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman after he entered the foyer at Otto Miller Hall, and several

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SEATTLE — A lone gunman armed with a shotgun and knife opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person before a student subdued him with pepper

other students jumped on top of him and pinned him down until police officers arrived, police said. A 19-year-old man died at Harborview Medical Center. Three other people were hospitalized. A critically injured 20-year-old woman was taken to surgery, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said. A 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were in satisfactory condition. Gregg says one of See SHOOTING, Page A8

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Students and faculty pray together in Gwinn Commons just after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday.

Flight to commemorate D-Day

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The Impatient Virgin, piloted by John Sessions (top-right), is flanked by Val-Halla piloted by Greg Anders (left) and Upupa Epops piloted by Carter Teeters. The P-51 Mustangs embarked on a practice aerial tour over the Puget Sound area Thursday in advance of today’s extended D-Day 70th anniversary tour.

Mustang at Paine Field museum supported invasion By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

Historic Flight Foundation founder John Sessions holds his helmet before heading on a practice tour.

MUKILTEO — The powerful engine coughed, hesitated, then jumped to life. A puff of smoke kicked out of the fighter plane’s exhaust pipes. The sleek airplane’s chrome skin glinted in the sun. The P-51 Mustang’s bright-yellow nose whirred, the propeller was a blur. It began taxiing to the runway. Two more

Mustangs joined it. The three World War II-vintage airplanes lifted off and banked to the west from Paine Field. Out of sight from the ground, the trio got into a V-formation, with the yellow-nosed plane in the lead and the other two slightly behind it, one on each side. A moment later, the three roared over the airport a couple of times before heading north to Bellingham.

Thursday’s flight was a practice run for one today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied forces in Normandy, France. The lead plane, the Impatient Virgin, flew four combat sorties on June 6, 1944, supporting the invasion. Today, it is part of the Historic Flight Foundation collection at Paine Field. It is painted See D-DAY, Page A2

Man accused of abuse after release from jail Herald Writer

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Snohomish County is now under investigation for abusing at least two other girls. Prosecutors say one of the assaults happened after an Everett judge released Joshua Larson

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from the Snohomish County Jail in March. Larson, 39, has been held at the Clallam County Jail since May 22. He was arrested after a 9-yearold girl reported that Larson

more e-books, music and movies (Page A11). Those who have seen the Amazon phone say it’s a model of simplicity. It has only one button: “Buy now!” They saw the light: A Seattle City Council committee has proposed increasing the pay of Seattle City Light’s chief executive

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officer to $305,000 a year to put it closer in line with the salaries of utility CEOs at Snohomish County PUD and Tacoma Public Utility, who make $367,000 and $319,000, respectively (Page A6). That does seem a little much to pay a public servant. It’s not like this is a job crucial to the community, Stocks . . . . . .A12 TV . . . . . . . . . .D6

molested her at a public pool in Sequim on May 18. Prosecutors here have since charged Larson with first-degree See RELEASE, Page A8

like a university football coach. (University of Washington head football coach Chris Petersen makes $3.6 million a year.) But fair’s fair. Having recently approved a $15 an hour minimum wage, Seattle’s council apparently thought more people should get a little bump in pay.

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