Los Angeles (AFP) - A US student
who had issued chilling warnings
on Twitter opened fire in a school
cafeteria on Friday, killing at least
one person and critically injuring
three before taking his own life.
Terrified classmates dived for
cover as the gunman, identified
by media reports and fellow
students as Jaylen Fryberg,
launched his attack in a school in
the northwestern state of
Washington.
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Police said the investigation was
still ongoing and would likely
continue into the early morning
Saturday.
"This continues to be an active
homicide investigation. We want
to make sure we do this right and
have all of the right answers,"
local police spokesman Robb
Lamoureux told a press
conference late Friday.
As with previous such shootings,
the episode revived debate on
gun control, even though the gun
involved was legally acquired.
"I heard one loud bang and I was
wondering what it was. Then I
heard about four or five more.
People started screaming and
people started getting to the
ground and going for the nearest
exit," said a student identified as
Jordan.
"So I hit the ground. But after
he'd already put some bullets into
the backs of students," he told
CNN.
The shooting, just the latest in a
long line of such rampages in the
United States, erupted in
Marysville, 35 miles (55
kilometers) north of Seattle.
Lamoureux declined to identify
the shooter or comment on
online suggestions, including on
Fryberg's social media posts, that
the attack might have been
triggered by a failed romance.
"The shooter died of a self-
inflicted gunshot wound," he said
earlier in the day.
Television footage showed
swarms of police descending on
the Marysville-Pilchuck High
School as students, some with
hands on heads, came out of the
sprawling campus, which has
some 2,500 students.
A student identified as Austin told
KING 5 television how the
gunman was initially "quiet"
before opening fire on fellow
diners.
"There was just a big group of
kids... He was quiet. He was just
sitting there. Everyone was
talking. All of a 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 with like a bag, like a pretty
loud pop until I heard four more
after that, and I saw three kids
just fall from the table like they
were falling to the ground dead."
- Tortured Twitter posts -
Fryberg, a Native American, left a
series of tortured posts on
Twitter, suggesting a teenager
used to handling guns, and
hinting that a failed romance may
have triggered the shooting.
One post on Instagram showed
him brandishing a hunting rifle.
"Probably the best BirthDay
present ever! I just love my
parents!!!!," he posted in a
message accompanying the
photo.
In his final post on Twitter on
Thursday, Fryberg had stated
ominously: "It won't last...It'll
never last...."
Earlier, in August, he had issued
threats to an apparent love rival:
"Your not gonna like what
happens next."
But some schoolmates voiced
shock after the attack by Fryberg,
reportedly a popular student.
"When I saw him, I was like, oh
my gosh, that's Jaylen. I would
have never expected it would
have been him out of all people,"
student Rachel Heichel said.
Joanne Roberts, a doctor at
Providence Medical Center, told
local TV station KOMO that three
young people were in a "very
critical condition" after the
shooting.
Two female patients were being
treated in the Providence ICU
while two males were in the ICU
at Harborview Medical Center,
according to the Marysville Police
Department, which said all were
under age 18.
CNN reported that one of the boys
had been critically injured, while
the other was being treated for a
jaw injury.
Previous mass shootings, like that
which killed 20 children and six
adults at an elementary school in
Newtown, Connecticut in
December 2012, have triggered
intense debate about America's
relatively lax gun control laws.
The weapon used in Friday's
attack was not identified, but
Doug Dawson of the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (ATF) said that it had
been "legally acquired," declining
to comment further.
Marysville police chief Rick Smith
said the shooting should be a
wake-up call.
"It's time for us to act, and not
just talk anymore," he said

Source:http://news.yahoo.com/shooter-opens-fire-us-school-kills-self-report-183919875.html

That's really bad. I don't know what's wrong with these americans. They don't think right.

John Pepper Clark rightly puts it,"America their America"

Wat a crazy country