Washington School Shooter Jaylen Fryberg 'Happy,' 'Popular': Students
BY M. ALEX JOHNSON
The student who opened fire at a Washington state high school Friday was described as a generally happy and popular football player who'd recently gotten into a dispute with a fellow student who'd made a racist comment.
Two law enforcement sources identified the gunman as Jaylen Ray Fryberg, a freshman at Marysville Pilchuck High School, north of Everett. He fatally shot himself after opening fire in the school's cafeteria Friday, killing another student, police said. At least four other people were injured, three of them critically.
"Everybody knew him. Everybody liked him," Bryce Vitcovitch, a member of the school's football team, told NBC station KING of Seattle. "This is just a huge shock to everybody. For the most part, he was a really happy kid."
Fryberg was smiling and waving just last week at the school's homecoming ceremony, where he was crowned freshman homecoming prince.
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