After 2nd shooting victim dies, Washington school struggles, mourns

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Washington high school is still coming to grips with how to return to normalcy after a second student victim died over the weekend after a campus shooting last Friday. Gia Soriano, 14, who was shot in the head when classmate Jaylen Fryberg took a gun into the Marysville-Pilchuck High School cafeteria and opened fire, died at a hospital Sunday night.

Another student who died on the day of the shooting was identified Monday as Zoe R. Galasso, 14, by the Snohomish County medical examiner's office.
Fryberg, 15, a freshman football player, died after shooting himself in the head, the medical examiner concluded Monday, calling his death a suicide.
Three more students remained hospitalized and were in critical to satisfactory condition.
"We are devastated by this senseless tragedy," Soriano's family said in a statement Sunday night. "Gia is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her. We’ve made the decision to donate Gia’s organs so that others may benefit. Our daughter was loving, kind and this gift honors her life."


The news of Soriano's death came after about 3,000 students and parents gathered for a community meeting in the high school's gym Sunday, with the district unsure when the school might reopen for its 1,200 students. The school is expected to remain closed through at least Friday, and potentially longer.
Aaron Toso, a spokesman for the Marysville School District, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday that “we don’t know yet the plan for moving ahead with classes ... [There's] not a firm plan of how we’re going to reopen the school."
On Monday morning, Nate Hatch, 14, who suffered a wound to the jaw, was upgraded to satisfactory condition and was awake and breathing on his own, according to Harborview Medical Center officials in Seattle.
Andrew Fryberg, 15, the shooter's cousin, was still in critical condition at Harborview on Monday morning, as was Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.

 

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