Seattle area School Shooting

CNN is reporting on TV that 2 students were airlifted So those would be very serious injuries. Just awful.

Aw, the news stations are doing that real-time thing where we watch the kids being escorted out of the building, etc. I think that's bad to report the 'drama' part, because of the psychology of so many of these damned shoot shooters. It's too much attention on the fear they cause, imho

Of course, I feel for all of the parents and students right now. But the reporting should be kept less dramatic, if that makes sense (imho).

They just announced there are 2 dead -- 1 is the shooter. They're not confirming if the other deceased is a student or staff.

3 taken to Everett in critical condition, 1 to Seattle in less critical condition.

That's all we know right now.

CNN has a report with a witness who said he shot his friends, in the back. Shooter being identified as a 14-year-old freshman of Native American descent, and a football player.

They were shot in the head at close range. One boy is doing okay, he was just hit in the jaw.

This is so devastating -- he was a member of a very well respected family in the community.

NBC.com is reporting a witness saying the shooter shot himself accidentally while struggling with a woman in the cafeteria who grabbed his arm.

"A junior, Erick Cervantes, told NBC News that a woman in the cafeteria, possibly a teacher, rushed to intervene and grabbed Fryberg's arm. He said the gunman tried to fire at the woman but ended up shooting himself in the neck. "

i apologize, my shift key is not working --

our family members were friends of this boy and his family -- there were ongoing disputes but not necessarily about the girl -- and everyone in the native community is in deep grief and shock. he was a well liked and popular boy who seems to have just simply snapped. the thing is, i am deeply sympathetic to the community and to the other native youth who have to come to terms with what's happened, especially after the recent death of misty upham, who was such a role model. this boy was too -- he was admired for being from one of the prominent, wealthy for the rez, families -- he followed the traditional ways. everyone in the canoe families of the northwest knew him and loved him. all are shocked and mystified. it is a sad truth that many native youth die from suicide, especially at this time of year and who knows what his emotional state might have been, but we are all concerned for the youth who survive and who are in deep grief over these events.

Oh, Karen. SO sorry to hear this.

Thought this was worth mentioning before it fell off the front page...

A second victim has died after a popular high school student opened fire inside Marysville-Pilchuck High School near Seattle on Friday.

Gia Soriano, 14, succumbed to her injuries on Sunday at 9:30 p.m. Pacific time, the Providence Regional Medical Center said. Soriano was one of five people attacked by 15-year old freshman Jaylen Fryberg in a rampage directed at his friends and family members.

“We are devastated by this senseless tragedy,” Soriano’s family said in a statement read at a news conference by Joanne Roberts, a doctor at Providence. “Gia is our beautiful daughter, and words cannot express how much we will miss her.” Her family will donate her organs, they said. “Our daughter was loving and kind and this gift honors her life,” they continued in the statement.

Zoe Galasso was shot and killed at the school on Friday. The 14-year-old was identified by the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday, according to the Seattle Times. Galasso, the medical examiner’s office said, died of “a handgun wound of the head.” A memorial fund set up for donations to her family has raised more than $16,000.

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The old newspaperman in me notes how little attention this latest school shooting has attracted both nationally and here on this board. Perhaps the victims weren't high profile enough or the public has so wearied of these endless mass and spree shootings, that all there is left to say is, "Yeah, it's a damn shame, but what can you do?" and quietly change the channel?

You think maybe if Gia Soriano was dead from Ebola she would be worth more than 30 seconds of the nation's short attention span? Perhaps she would be at worth half the attention Renee Zellweger got when she showed up in public with a whole new face?

Nah. Probably not. To paraphrase The Doobie Brothers what were once tragedies are now trivialities.

nighttimer said:

Nah. Probably not. To paraphrase The Doobie Brothers what were once tragedies are now trivialities.

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Actually, I'd like to think that news outlets are starting to give families some space after this, and to avoid "memorializing" the people who do things like this, so as to cut down on potential copycats.

The news channels here are still talking about it for most of each broadcast.

Not only is there a danger of copycats -- there is a strong likelihood that other kids will suicide (no link, just anecdotal evidence from my daughter who is native and works in the community). Folks are working to come up with educational interventions, etc.