By Rikki King and Eric Stevick, Herald Writers
MARYSVILLE — The wait is hard on teachers, too.
Five days after a deadly shooting in the Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria, students and teachers are growing antsy to reunite and find some semblance of routine.
At the same time, two police agencies on Tuesday were investigating threats believed to be hoaxes aimed at Marysville schools and athletes.
With classes at M-P canceled until Monday, 1,200 students have been looking for places to gather and share. Some have been seeking out teachers, present and past, all the way back to elementary school.
Randy Davis, president of the Marysville Education Association, has been in frequent contact with faculty from M-P where he spent most of his 32 years in the profession teaching science and coaching.
Teachers are looking forward to Monday, when they will see all their students again, he said.
“We want the activities coming back to be student led,” Davis said. “We want to do what the students are requesting. That was the teachers’ message to me.”
Something as simple as seeing more than a dozen of his students working traffic control for a parent meeting Tuesday night made Randy Brasfield’s day. He’s a Navy ROTC member at M-P.
“I was so energized getting to work with the kids again,” he said. “It put zip back in my step.”
Three M-P students remained hospitalized. As of Tuesday, victims Andrew Fryberg, 15, and Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, were in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head. Nate Hatch, 14, who was shot in the jaw, was in satisfactory condition. Andrew and Nate’s families have asked for privacy and shared thanks for the community’s support. Both boys are at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Shaylee is at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.
“Please continue to keep Shaylee in your thoughts and prayers,” the hospital posted in a news release Tuesday.
Zoe Raine Galasso and Gia Soriano, both 14, were killed. A family funeral for Zoe is being set for this weekend.
The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, 15, took his own life. His funeral arrangements are being finalized on the reservation.
On Tuesday, officials were responding to anonymous online threats directed at Tulalip Heritage High School students and at students and sports teams in Marysville, including M-P. Marysville Police Chief Rick Smith said he’s assigned an investigator to each of the threats. M-P football coaches also posted on Twitter that they reported inappropriate and threatening messages to local police. Whoever was behind the messages also sent them to Nate Hatch and other shooting victims.
