2 dead, 4 critically injured in shooting at Marysville high school 
 
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 MARYSVILLE, Wash. - A student recently crowned freshman class Homecoming prince walked into his Marysville Pilchuck high school cafeteria Friday and opened fire, killing one person and shooting four others — including two of his cousins — before turning the gun on himself, officials and witnesses said. 
 
 
 
 Students said the gunman was staring at his victims as he shot them inside the cafeteria. The shootings set off a chaotic scene as students ran from the cafeteria and building in a frantic dash to safety, while others were told to stay put inside classrooms. 
 
 
 
 Police say there was only one gunman. 
 
 
 
 "We are confident there is only one shooter and the shooter is deceased," said Marysville Police Cmdr. Robb Lamoureux in a noon briefing. 
 
 
 
 The gunman was identified as student Jaylen Fryberg. Students and parents said Fryberg was a member of a prominent family from the nearby Tulalip Indian tribes and a freshman who played on the high school football team. He was introduced at a football game as a prince in the 2014 Homecoming court, according to a video shot by parent Jim McGauhey. 
 
 
 
 Shaylee Bass, 15, a sophomore at the school, said Fryberg had recently gotten into a fight with another boy over a girl. 
 
 
 
 "He was very upset about that," said Bass, who was stunned by the shooting. 
 
 
 
 "He was not a violent person," she said. "His family is known all around town. He was very well known. That's what makes it so bizarre." 
 
 
 
 'God, let my kids be safe' 
 
 
 
 Dr. Joanne Roberts at Providence Regional Medical Center said four young victims were transported there after the shootings. Three of them - two girls and a boy - are in very critical condition with head wounds. The fourth student, a boy, is in critical but stable condition, and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, she said. 
 
 
 
 The male victim at Providence was later transported to Harborview. 
 
 
 
 Harborview spokesperson Susan Gregg confirmed that the two male victims, 14-year-old Nate Hatch and 15-year-old Andrew Fryberg, remain in critical condition. 
 
 
 
 Brian Patrick said his daughter, a freshman, was in the cafeteria 10 feet from the gunman when the shooting occurred. She ran from the cafeteria and immediately called her mother. 
 
 
 
 Patrick said his daughter told him, 'The guy walked into the cafeteria, pulled out a gun and started shooting. No arguing, no yelling." 
 
 
 
 His other daughter, a senior at the school, called him 'hysterical' from her classroom, Patrick said. 
 
 
 
 "I thought, 'God, let my kids be safe," he said. 
 
 
 
 Student Tanya Christenson said she was in the cafeteria when the shooting happened. 
 
 
 
 "Four shots went off. I thought it was firecrackers, and then everyone started ducking under the tables, and then everyone started screaming, 'Run, it's a gun!'" she said. 
 
 
 
 Student: Nothing to indicate Frybeg was upset 
 
 
 
 Some students described Jaylen Fryberg as a happy, popular student, but social media accounts suggested he was struggling with an unidentified problem. 
 
 
 
 On Wednesday, a posting on his Twitter account read: "It won't last ... It'll never last." On Monday, another tweet said: "I should have listened. ... You were right ... The whole time you were right." 
 
 
 
 Marysville-Pilchuck High School has a number of students from the Tulalip Indian tribes. 
 
 
 
 Ron Iukes, a youth counselor with the tribes, said Jaylen Fryberg was from a well-known tribal family. 
 
 "They're real good people, very loving, a big part of the community," he said. "Jaylen was one of our good kids. It's just a shock this happened. I've known this boy since he was a baby." 
 
 
 
 Nathan Heckendorf, a 17-year-old junior at the high school, said he saw Jaylen Fryberg on Friday morning before the shooting and there was nothing to indicate he was upset. 
 
 
 
 "He looked happy, everything seemed fine," Heckendorf said. 
 
 
 
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 State Sen. John McCoy, a tribal member, said the shooting devastated the tribal community. 
 
 
 
 "We're all related in one shape or form. We live and work and play together," he said. 
 
 
 
 Hundreds of people prayed and sang at a church vigil Friday night for victims and family members. 
 
 
 
 The Oak Harbor high school football team, which had been set to play Marysville later that night, lined the front row of Grove Church in their purple jerseys. The game was canceled and Oak Harbor offered to give the win to Marysville. 
 
 
 
 "It's something we need," Felecia Thompson said about the vigil. "And getting together right away, we can help move through it." 
 
 
 
 The school district will have counselors available Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to noon at 4220 80th Street NE in Marysville. ||||| Story highlights The four wounded in the shooting are in intensive care, an official says 
 
 Authorities will be working through the night at the school, an official says 
 
 The gun has been traced to the shooter's father, source says 
 
 The shooter killed one person and wounded four others 
 
 Jordan Luton was finishing his lunch in the cafeteria at Washington state's Marysville-Pilchuck High School on Friday when he heard it -- a loud bang. 
 
 Then there was another. And another. And another. And another. 
 
 What he saw was freshman Jaylen Fryberg go up to a table with students, "came up from behind ... and fired about six bullets into the backs of them," Luton told CNN. "They were his friends, so it wasn't just random." 
 
 Some of the students began to run. Luton and others hit the ground, some hiding under tables. 
 
 By the time it was over, two people -- the gunman and a female student -- were dead and four were wounded, according to authorities. Those wounded were all under the age of 18, they said. 
 
 The shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Marysville police spokesman Robb Lamoureux told reporters. 
 
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 Two girls are in the intensive care unit at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, and two boys are in ICU at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Providence spokeswoman Erin Al-Wazan said. 
 
 Three are "very critically ill" with "very serious" injuries, she said. One is in serious condition. One of the boys, age 14, suffered a jaw injury. The other, age 15, was critically injured in the head. 
 
 Source: Gun traced to shooter's father 
 
 The gun used in the shooting has been traced to Fryberg's father, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. It is a "high capacity" weapon but did not have an extended magazine, the source said on condition of anonymity. 
 
 The source said investigators are searching the family home. 
 
 A Beretta .40-caliber handgun is believed to have been used, a federal law enforcement source told CNN. 
 
 Why did this happen? That's the question being asked as investigators combed the school late Friday for clues and interviewed students who witnessed the shooting. 
 
 Investigators were expected to work through the night at the school, which has been closed through next week. 
 
 While authorities have not detailed what occurred inside or identified the shooter, students offered up accounts that painted a terrifying, chaotic picture. 
 
 The shooting began during an early lunch break at the school of about 2,500 students that sits in the heart of Marysville, a small city bisected by the major thoroughfare connecting the region with Vancouver, British Columbia. 
 
 Authorities got a 911 phone call at 10:39 a.m. (1:39 p.m. ET) from someone inside the school, which is north of Seattle and Everett, Lamoureux said. 
 
 'People started screaming' 
 
 Luton was sitting two tables away when the shooting began. 
 
 Fryberg appeared to target one table, where there were about 10 students sitting. "I'm pretty sure he shot at specific people because they were pretty good friends with him," Luton said. 
 
 "He put some bullets in the back of the students," he said. "He turned and looked at me and my girlfriend ... and kind of gave us a smirk." 
 
 The shooter continued firing as he left the cafeteria, Luton said. 
 
 "I have no idea what his motive was because yesterday at football practice, he was all fine, talking .... having a good time," he said. "And then today, just horrible. I don't know what went through his head or what caused him to do it." 
 
 By all accounts, Fryberg was a popular student. Just a week ago, he had been named as the high school's freshman homecoming prince, according to a YouTube video of the ceremony and accounts provided by students to CNN. 
 
 Fryberg's multiple social media accounts depict him frequently hunting and using rifles. Those accounts say he was a Native American and a member of the Tulalip tribe. 
 
 Luton could not confirm reports that Fryberg had been bullied. But two weeks ago, according to Luton, Fryberg got into a fight after somebody said "something racist" to him. 
 
 'Run, get out of here' 
 
 Freshman Rachel Heichel was sitting at a table about 60 feet away from Fryberg. 
 
 When the shots started, she turned around and saw the shooter standing there. 
 
 "When I saw him, I was like 'Oh my God, that's Jaylen.' I would have never expected it would have been him, out of all people," she said. 
 
 "It was really heartbreaking for me to see that. I saw him with the a gun in his hand, shooting." 
 
 She never heard Fryberg say anything. 
 
 "All I heard was people screaming, 'Run, get out of here. Let's go,'" Heichel said. 
 
 At first, they thought it was a fire drill 
 
 A student locked down inside a classroom told CNN by phone that students initially thought it was a fire drill until teachers told everyone to run into classrooms because there was a shooting. 
 
 A student who says he was in the cafeteria when the shooting began told CNN he called the police, and then gave his phone to a teacher. 
 
 The student described a chaotic and bloody scene, saying blood was "everywhere." 
 
 Another student, identified as Austin Taylor, told CNN Seattle affiliate KING that he had just finished eating when he saw the shooter. 
 
 "He was just sitting there. Everyone was talking. All of the sudden, I see him stand up, pull something out of his pocket," he said. 
 
 "At first, I thought it was just someone making a really loud noise ...like a big loud pop ... until I heard four more after that. And I saw three kids just fall from the table." 
 
 Austin said he ducked under a table. When the shooting stopped, he said he looked out and saw the shooter was trying to reload. 
 
 "When that happened, I just ran in the opposite direction, and I was out of there as fast as I could," he said.
– A shooter who opened fire in a high school near Seattle is dead, police say. He reportedly shot other students at Marysville-Pilchuck High School before taking his own life, but the details are still firming up. The Seattle Times reports that one of his victims is dead and that four other students are injured. A student at the school says the gunman, reportedly a freshman, walked up to a table in the cafeteria with four to six people and opened fire. Police say they are confident the gunman acted alone, reports CNN. A lockdown at the school, located in Washington state's Marysville, was being lifted. “Everyone just started running," recalls 14-year-old Adam Holston. "I could hear the gunshots, and my heart was racing and we didn’t know what was going on.”