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A wave of grief
Marysville Pilchuck student Tyanna Davis (right) places flowers on the fence bordering Marysville Pilchuck High School along 108th Street NE Saturday morning.
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MARYSVILLE — Four children, two girls and two boys, are fighting for their lives. There will be a funeral for Zoe Raine Galasso, 14. There will be one for Jaylen Fryberg, also 14, the popular freshman who killed her, shot four others in the head, then killed himself with a .40-caliber handgun in a Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria Friday morning.
The grieving has only started. So has the search for reasons, for ways to help, for a path through the sorrow. Social media is replete with theories, reflected in reports around the world: It was over a girl, over being bullied, over something else. Answers always come in weeks, months, years. For now, there is a chain link fence woven with flowers. It’s in front of the school, and came alive with bundles of roses in red and white — the colors of Marysville Pilchuck High School — carnations and baby’s breath and
as much prayers as flowers. There was a blue stuffed rabbit and a little red peace sign, and red balloons with messages for the wounded. We love you. Shaylee Chuckulnaskit. Gia Soriano. Andrew Fryberg. Nate Hatch. And at the end of the row: Zoe Galasso will be missed. Many looked beyond the flowers, beyond the fence, and considered the school. A Snohomish mother brought her son, an 8th grader, to show him that tragedies can happen close to home. Michael Urbina, a 2007 MPHS graduate, stood there for several
minutes, reflecting on how he always felt safe when he was there. “I had to try to explain to my 4-yearold,” who lives near the school, Urbina said. “She wanted to know, ‘Daddy, why are people shooting each other.’ I had to say, ‘I don’t know. No one knows.’” As of Saturday evening, three of the teens, Shay, 14, Gia, 14, and Andrew, 15, were reported in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head. Nate, 14, was listed in serious See GRIEF, Page A6
Boy known as involved, future leader
Tribal, family dedication make Jaylen Fryberg’s violence puzzling By Andrew Gobin Herald Writer
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Jaylen Fryberg performs in his dance regalia during the Paddle to Squaxin Island in August 2012.
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TULALIP — What do you say about a young man whose actions forever changed the lives of so many? You can seek rhyme and reason, you can analyze his troubles, you can gaze into the abyss of disbelief.
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This is not about gun control, this is not about how a community failed a young man, and it’s not about using his troubles to solve everyone’s problems. Strangers are telling Jaylen Fryberg’s story. Strangers who never met him. What do you say about a boy? You say who he was. Jaylen Fryberg came from a large, influential family on the Tulalip Indian Reservation. His grandfather, Ray Fryberg Sr., sat on the tribal council and is the director of Cultural and
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Natural Resources for the tribes. His grandmother, Sheryl Fryberg, was an executive with the tribes for many years, most recently the general manager of tribal government operations. His father, Ray Fryberg Jr., also works in Natural Resources for the tribes. His mother, Wendy Fryberg, a former Marysville School Board member, is deputy general manager for tribal government operations. He has two sisters, See HISTORY, Page A6
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Herald writer Andrew Gobin is a member of the Tulalip Tribes and grew up on the reservation.
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