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  • Shaylee Chuckulnaskit: Third Shooting Victim Dies

    A third victim from the Washington state high school shooting has died.

    According to Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington, Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, passed away on Friday, raising the number of casualties from the shooting to four.

    “Today at 4:45 p.m. Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, known affectionately as Shay to her family and friends, passed away at Providence Regional Medical Center as a result of severe injuries from last Friday’s school shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School. The entire Providence family is deeply saddened by this news and we extend our heartfelt sympathy to Shaylee’s family,” Dr. Anita Tsen, a critical care physician at Providence Regional Medical Center, read from an official news release.

    “Our hearts are broken at the passing of our beautiful daughter,” Chuckulnaskit’s family said in a statement. “Shay means everything to us. In Shay’s short life she has been a radiant light bringing us incredible joy and happiness. She has been a loving daughter, a caring sister, a devoted friend and a wonderful part of our community. We can’t imagine life without her.”

    “We have been overwhelmed by the thoughtfulness and support of our family, friends and community,” the statement added. “We are deeply grateful for all the acts of kindness that have come our way. We especially want to thank the medics and Providence staff who have cared for Shay.”

    Chuckulnaskit and four other students were shot on October 24 when the gunman, Jaylen Fryberg, opened fire in the cafeteria of their high school. Zoe Galasso, 14, was pronounced dead at the scene and Gia Soriano, 14, later died in the hospital on Sunday night. Andrew Fryberg and Nate Hatch, the gunman’s cousins, were also wounded by the gunshots and remain hospitalized in Seattle. Fryberg also took his own life.

    The cause of the shooting is still under investigation.

  • Gia Soriano Dies From Injuries Sustained From Marysville Shooting

    A girl who was shot along with four other teens when a student opened fire in a Washington state high school died of her injuries on Sunday, October 26, more than two days after the incident. Gia Soriano, 14, passed away at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, raising the death toll of the shooting to three.

    “We are devastated by this senseless tragedy. Gia is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her. We’ve made the decision to donate Gia’s organs so that others may benefit. Our daughter was loving, kind and this gift honors her life,” said Soriano’s family in a statement, which was read by Dr. Joanne Roberts at a press conference held in the hospital. The Soriano family also thanked hospital workers for their care and asked that their privacy be respected at this time.

    Soriano was injured when a popular freshman student named Jaylen Fryberg opened fire in the cafeteria of Marysville-Pilchuck High School north of Seattle, on Friday, October 24. Fryberg also reportedly shot his cousins 15-year-old Andrew Fryberg and 14-year-old Nate Hatch, who remain in critical and serious condition, respectively, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Other victims included 14-year-old Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, who is also in critical condition, as well as another female student who was shot dead by Fryberg on Friday before he was killed by what is believed may be a self-inflicted wound. As yet, it is unclear whether Fryberg shot himself intentionally or accidentally during a struggle with a teacher.

    Fryberg was the popular son of one of the prominent families of the Tulalip tribe. Members of the closely-knit community at the nearby Tulalip Indian reservation are apparently shaken by the incident. Matt Remle, a tribal guidance counselor, said that he knew some of the children involved in the shooting well, describing them as “really happy, smiling kids.” He said that no one knew what motivated Fryberg to do it.

    “Maybe it would be easier if we knew the answer. But we may never know,” said Remle.

  • Gia Soriano, 14-Year-Old Girl Wounded in Washington High School Shooting, Dies

    Gia Soriano, a 14-year-old girl wounded in the Washington state high school shooting, has died.

    Soriano died Sunday night, according to officials at Providence Regional Medical Center.

    “We are devastated by this senseless tragedy,” her family said in a statement, which was read at a news conference by Dr. Joanne Roberts. “Gia is our beautiful daughter, and words cannot express how much we will miss her.”

    This brings the death toll to three, after freshman Jaylen Fryberg opened fire on classmates on Friday.

    Another girl was killed at the scene at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, and Fryberg was shot and killed following the rampage. During the attack, a first-year teacher intervened, and It’s unclear if he intentionally killed himself or if the gun went off in a struggle with the teacher.

    Of the three other wounded students, only 14-year-old Nate Hatch showed improvement, though he remained in serious condition in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Fifteen-year-old Andrew Fryberg also remained in critical condition in intensive care. Both are cousins of Jaylen Fryberg.

    The third wounded student, Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, remained in critical condition in intensive care at Providence Regional Medical Center.

    The girl killed Friday hasn’t been officially identified.

    A motive is still unclear, although the teen seemed to have been struggling after he was rebuffed by a love interest.

    “We can’t answer that question,” said Matt Remle, a Tulalip tribal counselor who has an office at the high school. “But we try to make sense of the senselessness.”

    Remle said he has been trying to help kids from the Native-American community of nearby Tulalip Indian reservation.

    “My office has been a comfort space for Native students,” he said. “Many will come by and have lunch there, including the kids involved in the shooting.”

    “They all were “really happy, smiling kids,” Remle said. “They were a polite group. A lot of the kids from the freshman class were close-knit. Loving.

    “These were not kids who were isolated,” he said. “They had some amazing families, and have amazing families.”

    Remle said it is difficult to understand why this happened in light of nature of the close-knit community.

    “Maybe it would be easier if we knew the answer,” Remle said. “But we may never know.”

  • Jaylen Fryberg: Washington HS Shooter’s Social Media Posts Reveal a Desperate, Love-Sick Teen

    Jaylen Fryberg, identified as the shooter in Friday’s rampage at a Washington State high school, was apparently a well-liked, popular student, who was recently voted freshman homecoming prince.

    However, recent social media posts may lead investigators to the darker side of the youth, who killed one other student, shot at least four others, and eventually took his own life.

    The Tulalip Bay, Washington youth’s posts seem to reveal a head-over-heels-in-love teenager who apparently grew more and more upset and desperate when the relationship fell apart.

    “I can’t believe I just witnessed a shooting,” Austin Joyner, a student at the school, said on Twitter. “Kid came into the cafeteria and walked over to a table and pulled out the gun and shot 4-6 shots at students sitting down.”

    Kobe Baumann, 14, told the paper that he was with Fryberg in his Marysville-Pilchuck High School English class shortly before the shooting, and that he appeared to be kind of nervous, according to the Seattle Times.

    “He sits right up in the front,” Baumann said. “He got called on, but he just kept his head down and didn’t really say anything.”

    Fryberg’s social media accounts depict a teen with a passion for sports, music, hunting, family and his Native-American culture.

    Many of Fryberg’s social posts are about the girl with whom he was smitten.

    But, later in June, something has clearly happened in the relationship and the posts become negative, full of expletives. Fryberg seems to threaten something sinister in August.

    Jarron Webb, 15, confirmed to the Seattle Times that the shooter was angry at a girl who would not date him.

    He sent his final tweet on Thursday, the day before the shooting.

    Many took to social media in the aftermath to share their grief over the incident.

    “Over a girl he was heartbroken and didn’t know what to do,” tweeted a 16-year-old, who said she was a cousin of the shooter. “Jaylen wasn’t a bad kid he just made a mistake.”