US High school shooting was 'over a girl'

 

US high school gunman shot students 'over a girl'. Jaylen Ray Fryberg, 15, shot friends in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington, before turning the gun on himself

Gun violence returned to America’s schools when a 14-year-old gunman opened fire in a crowded school cafeteria in Washington State, killing one teenager and critically injuring three others. 

Witnesses said the gunman, named locally as Jaylen Ray Fryberg, 15, stood on a table in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School outside Seattle, and opened fire at close range at around 10.40am local time. 

Fryberg then turned the gun on himself and died at the scene on Friday.

Classmates and family members told The Telegraph that Fryberg, a proud Native American from the local Tulalip Tribtes who was pictured on his Facebook page wearing a traditional headdress, had been angered by a dispute over his girlfriend. 

“He was heartbroken and didn’t know what to do. Jaylen wasn’t a bad kid, he just made a mistake,” 

his cousin, 16-year-old Heaven Arbuckle said, adding the shooting was over a girl She said Fryberg shot their other cousins Nate Hatch, 14, and Andrew Fryberg, 15 - their condition was unknown.

 

Other students said Fryberg had given no inkling of what was to come when he trained as normal on Thursday with the school’s American Football squad.
“He was fine - at football practice yesterday,” said Jordan Luton, a freshman student in the same year, adding of the shooting: “He went after his friends, who were sitting at a certain table.”

The incident occurred as students packed into the cafeteria for their morning break at Marysville-Pilchuck, a school of some 2,500 students located nearly 40 miles north of Seattle.
The White House confirmed that President Barack Obama was briefed. 

---Source: UK Telegraph