Officials to release Marysville shooting documents

A temporary restraining order has been filed regarding the release of certain records related to the shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School last fall, a sheriff’s news release says.

But that document will have to wait as an un-named ex-girlfriend of Fryberg asked the court to hold back text messages she exchanged with the shooter.

While it is not clear what the messages contain, posts on Twitter leading up to the shooting seemed to suggest that Fryberg was having relationship issues at the time.

Two minutes after that, the first 911 call came in about killings at the school about 30 miles north of Seattle.

The report is reportedly more than 2,300 pages, compiled by a regional task force investigating the shooting.

The police chief for the Tulalip Tribe, which both Fryberg and the girl are members of, wrote that release on her personal communications would be used to “haunt her, hunt her, and crucify her in the court of public opinion”.

Some of those conversations have already been released. “And yet the scuffle, or what I’ve had described to me as an all-out brawl, happened just a few days preceding [the shooting]”.

“I set the date”.

The family of the victims, through their attorney, Ann Deutscher, are publicly raising questions about what could have been done to stop the shooting. You may or may not have said “I love you” to them that morning.

Deutscher says it “defies common sense” that there wouldn’t be some warning signs before a deadly shooting like the one perpetrated by Jaylen Fryberg.

Among their questions – was Fryberg bullied?

Among other things, Deutscher says the families are asking for records of the school’s disciplinary and anti-bullying policies to see if they were followed. Deutscher says they are waiting to get all of the information about the shooting before deciding whether to sue.

The Marysville School District released a statement after Deutscher made the comments. “We had no idea until today that her request has anything to do with her representation of these families or the Marysville-Pilchuck tragedy”.