MARYSVILLE — A popular student responsible for a shooting at a Washington high school invited his victims to lunch by text message, then shot them at their table, investigators said Monday.
Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary said at a news conference that the five students were at a lunch table Friday when they were shot by 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg. Fryberg then committed suicide.
Detectives are digging through reams of text messages, phone and social media records as part of an investigation that could take months, Trenary said.
“The question everybody wants is, ‘Why?”‘ Trenary said. “I don’t know that the ‘why’ is something we can provide.”