WA - Four killed in Pilchuk High School shooting, Marysville, 24 Oct 2014

[possumheart]

BBM: Congratulations and bless you for taking on this difficult task. My children are grown, but I have grandchildren. All of this is so frightening. We are living in changing times. One would hope that as we evolve as a society, we would grow to value peace and kindness over violence and hate. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be the case.

I think in our western world of immediate gratification, the art of impulse control has been completely lost.

 

[MsMarple]

From your first link, there has been a strong response from from donors for ZG's account. The person who established it set the goal amount as a "pie in the sky" amount, thinking it wouldn't be met. It has been surpassed by 10% by 230 participants. Mods, I hope that's ok to post. If not, my apologies. :heartluv:

:candle:

Not knowing how many angels have gotten their wings since Friday morning is really bothering me. Although I understand the need for privacy, these teens lived on social media :moo: and unconfirmed rumors aren't helping the situation - locally, or at large.

These school shootings reverberate across the nation. My girls experience lockdown drills regularly - in elementary and middle school environments. As parents, we play the possibilities out in our minds' eye with sympathy, empathy and compassion.

I just found out on Friday that I've been elected to School Site Council at both of my girls' schools. It's the only way a parent can participate in decision making at the budgetary level. It's separate from the PTA and an honor - as you are elected by the votes of the parents of children attending your child's school.

This tragedy will be on the forefront of my mind when we have our first meetings next week. The safety of our children must be handled proactively.

How can they learn if they don't feel safe? Are we doing all we can? The approach for elementary school will likely differ from middle school, but we have to take action. I won't stand for anything less.

We've already lost too many promising young lives, before they ever had the chance to fulfill their destinies. We owe it to their memories, and their cohort, to for their right have a safe place to learn, to grow, to be young, and learn life's lessons without dying in the process (JMO).



Sorry, I hope my :twocents: makes sense.

Yeah, I don't know why msm is being so secretive - it's not like the local news stations don't know the kids are tweeting. It'd be a lot better to get info from official sources.

And congratulations! Based on your posts here I think the School Site Councils are lucky to have you onboard! Now go out there and make a difference!

:congrats:

 

[MsMarple]

Alex Rozier ‏@AlexRozier 2h hours ago (~10 pm PDT)
Both girls remain in critical following school shooting in #Marysville , hospital officials confirm

Despite social media reports, the conditions of two girls at Providence in Everett has not changed, hospital officials confirm.

https://twitter.com/AlexRozier

??

 

[possumheart]

Alex Rozier ‏@AlexRozier 2h hours ago (~10 pm PDT)
Both girls remain in critical following school shooting in #Marysville , hospital officials confirm

Despite social media reports, the conditions of two girls at Providence in Everett has not changed, hospital officials confirm.

https://twitter.com/AlexRozier

??

So bizarre, but I am happier to think they are alive!!!! The screen grab they are circulating saying they turned off life support could be a hoax, and with a bunch of teenagers it would be too hard to work out where it started ... Let's hope the girls are still with us.

 

[MsMarple]

There seems to be a disagreement between the reporter and another tweeter - she posted the screenshot of Gia's parents saying she was dead. This is really unnerving!

https://twitter.com/AlexRozier/status/526241015947354112

 

[MsMarple]

So bizarre, but I am happier to think they are alive!!!! The screen grab they are circulating saying they turned off life support could be a hoax, and with a bunch of teenagers it would be too hard to work out where it started ... Let's hope the girls are still with us.

Frustrating!

I guess we'll hear more in the morning. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[newone]

Seattle Times:

Happy ‘golden boy’ showed anger; some cite student dispute

• Marysville school shooter Jaylen Fryberg was described Friday as a “golden boy” and potential leader of the Tulalip Tribes.

the rest at the link

from your link

there are two sharply constrasting events:

homecoming (last week - week before shooting) he's made homecoming prince

(last week) he was suspended from football for assaulting fellow player

that's like driving with both the brake and gas engaged....not good

did he break the kid's nose during that incident?

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024866060_marysvilleshooterxml.html

if you assault someone and break their nose it would seem to me
(a) there should be real life consequences such as an assault charge
(b) loss of all privileges and perks!

sounds to me like he was a bit too pampered....why was he rewarded for his bad behavior

 

[kalekona]

from your link

there are two sharply constrasting events:

homecoming (last week - week before shooting) he's made homecoming prince

(last week) he was suspended from football for assaulting fellow player

that's like driving with both the brake and gas engaged....not good

did he break the kid's nose during that incident?

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024866060_marysvilleshooterxml.html

if you assault someone and break their nose it would seem to me
(a) there should be real life consequences such as an assault charge
(b) loss of all privileges and perks!

sounds to me like he was a bit too pampered....why was he rewarded for his bad behavior

How exactly was he rewarded? He was suspended from both school and the football team.

 

[newone]

How exactly was he rewarded? He was suspended from both school and the football team.

there seems to be a confusion that both the reward of being made prince of homecoming coincided with the event of the assault same day/week

which came first?

seems to me that if he assaulted someone he would lose the privilege of being homecoming prince

from what I could see both incidents occurred in same week

 

[possumheart]

obviously homecoming came first, or he would have been grounded and unable to attend as he was suspended. I see no discipline conspiracy.

 

[SuzDuJour]

Being on life support is keeping the body alive while organ donation is being considered. It is possible that the hospital can report no changes, while the relatives can be reporting death.


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[Leilei]

Being on life support is keeping the body alive while organ donation is being considered. It is possible that the hospital can report no changes, while the relatives can be reporting death.


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Reminds me of another case that we've been following for almost a year now.

I keep checking here to see if the girls are... well, as okay as they can be. This is one that my heart can't let go of.

 

[kimi_SFC]

Editorial: Focus grief over Marysville school shooting on finding constructive response | Editorials | The Seattle Times

Amid the memorials for the lost lives and prayers for the wounded students, we must catalyze the grief and anger in a search for answers that rebind the community.
That resolve might lead to a reassessment of school safety, of bullying prevention or to our nation’s easy access to firearms.
It might also spotlight the need for strong school-based mental-health services. As gunshots rang out at the school, the Marysville School District was preparing to implement its share of a $10 million grant to boost preventive mental-health care.
This much is known: America’s appalling, repeat episodes of violence on school campuses expose a fracture at the core. What does it tell students about their future when on campus mass-shooting drills are routine?
As the facts emerge in the coming days, let’s use them — along with the grief and anger — to find a new, constructive response to the scar across the Marysville-Pilchuck High School community.

More@Link
http://seattletimes.com/html/editorials/2024865412_editmarysville25xml.html?prmid=obinsite

:rose:

:candle:

raying:


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[possumheart]

I can't cut and paste from this for some reason, so I will paraphrase.

The fight that JL was in after football practice (that caused his suspension from school) involved one of the cousins that he later shot, according to this article.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jaylen-fryberg-was-confronted-by-1st-year-teacher-during-washington-school-shooting-1.2813018

More:

This month, Jaylen got into a fight at football practice, punching a student and breaking his nose over a racial slur against Native Americans, Josh said.

That day, ShyAnn Wolf, 16, a junior, was in a sports medicine class. “The kid that got his nose broken came in with a bloody nose — it was gushing blood,” she said. “He told our sports med teacher that Jaylen just came up and grabbed him and started punching.”

ShyAnn, whose boyfriend is a football player, later also heard that a racist joke had started the fight, and said Jaylen had been briefly suspended from the football team.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/us/contrasting-portraits-emerge-of-jaylen-ray-fryberg-shooter-at-washington-school.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0

 

[Rallibella]

Glad to wake up to hear things are not as they seemed last night. So very odd.

 

[RJA00]

Seattle times as listed the victims name that died at the scene http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024873645_marysvillemainxml.html


global dispatch is saying another girl has passed, http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/wa...o-passed-jaylen-frybergs-second-victim-61435/

 

[possumheart]

^ I just came here to mention the global dispatch - I dont know how reliable it is as a source, looks a bit dodgy, but I believe they are correct.

 

[possumheart]

Jaylen's home. Walking distance to school.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8804-77th-Ave-NE-Marysville-WA-98270/72069430_zpid/#noAppRedir
The long term gf he had lived 1.5 hours drive away, which would have been a strain ... She had good native lineage. That's from social media and research.

 

[wfgodot]

Mom of boy, 14, shot point-blank in head by his cousin in school love-triangle shooting
shows remarkable compassion as all four survivors fight for their lives in hospital

 

[FragileSugar]

Mom of boy, 14, shot point-blank in head by his cousin in school love-triangle shooting
shows remarkable compassion as all four survivors fight for their lives in hospital

Interesting that they aren't identifying Zoe in the homecoming photo. She was Andrew's date and GF. His twitter is a bit easier to follow. It looks like he and Zoe started dating in June... around the time of Jaylen's first angry tweets. She had a different twitter handle at the time.