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MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK SHOOTING
Victims were targeted ■ Shooter invited 5 teens
to sit with him at lunch
■ Cafeteria will stay closed
when high school reopens
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Mary McGourty tightly embraces her two children, Kylah, 16 (left), and Elijah, 15, both Marysville Pilchuck High School students, during a moment of silence at 10:39 a.m. Monday, near the fence where people have created a memorial to the students killed and injured in a shooting at the school Friday.
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MARYSVILLE — A freshman who shot five young people in the Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria sent text messages to his victims, arranging for the group to sit with him at lunch, Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said Monday. Since Friday afternoon detectives have been carefully piecing together what happened inside the cafeteria. They are scouring phone and text records between the shooter and his victims. The boy’s parents agreed to allow detectives to seize the shooter’s electronics and search his room. The sheriff expects that the investigation will take months. Trenary said he hopes people will focus less on possible motives and more on helping the
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community recover. “Candidly, I don’t know the ‘Why?’ is something that we can provide,” Trenary said at a press conference. Jaylen R. Fryberg, 14, opened fire late Friday morning in a bustling cafeteria. The freshman athlete, a Tulalip Tribal member, then turned the .40-caliber Berretta on himself. Jaylen died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the medical examiner confirmed Monday. His death was ruled a suicide. Zoe R. Galasso, 14, was shot in the head and died at the scene. Her death was ruled a homicide.
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Gia Soriano, 14, died Sunday night at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Dr. Joanne Roberts, the hospital’s chief medical officer, confirmed. The medical examiner is expected to determine the cause of her death later. Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, was still in critical condition at Providence. Andrew Fryberg, 15, also remained in critical condition in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Nate Hatch, 14, was upgraded to
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MARYSVILLE — It always had been such a bustling place where students wolfed down salads and chicken burgers amid the din of burgeoning friendships. It won’t be anymore. At least not in its current form. The Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria will not reopen when 1,200 students return next week — not after the horror of Friday’s gunfire that killed three classmates, left two others clinging to life and shattered the jaw of another. “The kids are saying loud and clear they don’t want to go back there to the old cafeteria,” Marysville School District Superintendent Becky Berg said Monday. “What to do with that space will take some time.” It might be remodeled at some point, but not for now. Zoe Raine Galasso and Gia Soriano, both 14, were fatally
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wounded Friday. The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, 14, took his own life. As of Monday evening, two students remained in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head: Shaylee “Shay” Chuckulnaskit, 14, and Andrew Fryberg, 15. Nate Hatch, 14, is in satisfactory condition, and is awake and breathing. Monday was a day of trying to move forward. Several hundred people attended a “Paint the Town Red & White, Together We Unite” event atComefordPark in downtown Marysville, unraveling rolls of plastic to fashion bows. The message was to decorate throughout the city, to tie everyone together. Kids wrapped red ribbons around trees, swings and themselvesas adults tackled the utility poles along busy streets. Elaine Soriano, Gia ’s grandmother, watched. “I wasn’t going tocome. I am See UNITE, Page A6
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