[ot-caption title=”An attendee holds up a rose at a memorial vigil at the Grove Church in Marysville, Wash., Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, for people affected by a shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High School earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)” url=”https://pcpawprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/MarysvilleAP912664454858.jpg”]

Just two days after the attack on Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada, another kind of attack  occurred here in America, at a high school in Marysville, Washington.

On October 24th, Jaylen Fryberg, a 15 year old student at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, targeted four students in a school shooting when he opened fire in the middle of the cafeteria. He was armed with a .40-caliber Beretta, which is said to have belonged to a family member.

According to recent information, Fryberg texted his friends to meet him in the Marsville-Pilchuck High School’s cafeteria on Friday. The moment his friends entered the cafeteria, Fryberg shot and killed 14-year-old Zoe Galasso. He then proceeded to shoot Gia Soriano and Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, both 14, who were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Gia was eventually taken off of life support and died on Tuesday, October 28th.

Fryberg also shot his cousins Andrew Fryberg, 15, and Nate Hatch, 14, who were taken to a separate hospital than the girls. Andrew is still in critical condition while Nate is said to finally be in stable condition. All the victims were shot directly in the head by Fryberg.

Recent sources have said that Fryberg sent a message to his parents moments before Friday’s shooting. In addition to this, he supposedly texted a photo of himself with a gun to his ex-girlfriend prior to the shooting.

Witnesses describe Fryberg as having been a popular freshman, who only weeks before the shooting, was elected homecoming prince at his school. Despite Fryberg’s popularity, messages posted prior to his attack suggest that he was “broken” by an unspecified event. One student at the school told the Reuters news agency that the shooting may have been related to a “fight over a girl.“

“We’ve got families all over Tulalip, all over Marysville who are grieving really hard right now,” said Tony Hatch, a tribal representative who spoke to the community at a school gathering on Sunday. “We can never understand why this may have happened.”

Sources: CNN News, BBC News, People Magazine, Fox News, MyNorthWest.com, NYDailyNews.com, PeopleMagazine.com