华联学院英文报刊阅读教案13 Police seek motive in fatal Washington state school shooting

1、Passage 13 6/6Passage 13Police seek motive in fatal Washington state school shooting(Agencies)Updated: 2014-10-26 09:09Student Tyanna Davis (R) and others place flowers outside Marysville-Pilchuck High School the day after a shooting at the school in Marysville, Washington October 25, 2014. Photo/Ag

2、enciesMARYSVILLE, Wash. - Authorities in Washington state worked on Saturday to find out what led a popular high school student to open fire on a group of classmates seated at a cafeteria table, killing one and wounding four others, including a pair of his cousins, before killing himself.The Friday

3、incident at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in the city of Marysville, north of Seattle, sent students fleeing from the building and sheltering under desks in the latest in a series of US school shootings.The Snohomish County Sheriffs Office said on Saturday that officers had completed their on-scen

4、e investigation and recovered a 0.40 caliber handgun.Police have not released the shooters identity, but a Marysville school official and multiple classmates said a well-liked freshman named Jaylen Fryberg was responsible for Fridays rampage.Students who knew Fryberg, a member of the Native American

5、 Tulalip Tribes, described him as an outgoing and popular football player, unlike the loner personality that is often associated with school shootings.Authorities were also still piecing together a motive, interviewing about 100 witnesses, the sheriffs department said Saturday.Classmates and parents

6、 said the teen shooter had recently been in a dispute on the football field and had also been despondent over a break up.Rebecca Cooley, whose son played football with Fryberg, said he had recently been in a fight with another player over a disparaging remark made during football practice.(Jaylen) b

7、roke the kids nose, she said. A lot of the football players stepped in during this fight, she said.A school official who did not want to be named and a friend of one of the female victims said he had been recently rejected by a girl who favored his cousin.I heard he asked her out and she rebuffed hi

8、m and was with his cousin, said Bella Panjeli, a ninth-grade student at a different school who said she was a friend of one female victim.She added that she learned of the connection after talking to the victims family and friends on social media. It was a fight over a girl.FRIENDS TARGETEDWitnesses

9、 said the shooter had targeted a single table in the cafeteria. Two girls hug at Shoultes Gospel Hall church where families are reuniting after an active shooter situation at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington October 24, 2014.He came up from behind and had a gun in his hand,

10、and he fired about eight bullets, student Jordan Luton told CNN. . They were his friends so it wasnt just random.All five victims were under 18, medical officials said.One female classmate was killed, police said. Her identity has not been released.Fifteen-year-old Andrew Fryberg was shot in the hea

11、d and remained in critical condition in intensive care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Saturday, a spokeswoman said. She said Nate Hatch, 14, was shot in the jaw and was in serious condition there.Local media, community members and fellow students said the boys were cousins of the shooter

12、.Brandon Hatch, 26, a first cousin of Nate Hatch, said Andrew Fryberg and Nate are cousins of Jaylen, and the other victims were friends.As far as I knew they were all a bunch of bright kids and had a future, he said. :Ive heard rumors but cant state fact on what provoked this. Im just confused at t

13、his moment.The two female victims, Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, and Gia Soriano, 14, remained in critical condition Saturday at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, said Dr. Joanne Roberts.The next three days are going to be crucial, she said.The sheriffs office said a cafeteria worker had a

14、ttempted to stop the shooter, who took his own life.Vigils were planned through out the weekend.Misty Himes, 30, drove with her friend to pick up her son after the shooting.Everybody is just torn up to see the kids so young have to go through this, she said.There were no indications on Frybergs soci

15、al media accounts that he had been planning such a rampage, but on Tuesday he posted his feelings of despondency, apparently over a romantic split, on Twitter.It breaks me.It actually does.I know it seems like Im sweating it off. But Im not. And I never will be able to, he wrote.Classmates said they were shocked that mass violence had com