One victim and the gunman, a student, are dead after a shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School that was sparked by a relationship gone wrong.  Four students are injured.

Marysville police said the shooting happened at 10:39 a.m. Friday.  The victim who was killed was a girl.

Police said they are confident there was just one shooter involved. The gunman, identified by his family as 14-year-old Jaylen Fryberg, opened fire in the school cafeteria.  Fryberg, a freshman at the school, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureux.   A student said a “lunch lady” grabbed Fryberg’s arm during the shooting in an effort to stop him, and Fryberg shot himself in the neck during the struggle.

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CBS News confirmed that authorities believe a .40-caliber Beretta handgun was the weapon used. Investigators are performing a trace to the gun’s place of purchase.

Of the four victims, two female students remain at Providence Regional Hospital in Everett in extremely critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head. Neither has been identified.

Two other victims were transported from Providence to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.  A 14-year-old boy is in intensive care in serious condition with a gunshot wound to his jaw.  A Harborview spokesperson said the boy would survive.  A 15-year-old boy,  identified as Andrew Fryberg, the gunman’s cousin, is in critical condition.

Students were painstakingly evacuated by officers when it was determined it was safe.  Some walked across a lawn with their hands up; others were seen running through the school parking lot.

Evacuated students were taken by bus to Shoultes Community Church at 116th Street Northeast and 51st Avenue Northeast where a crowd of parents waited in the parking lot outside to be reunited with their children. Buses pulled up periodically to drop off students evacuated from the school, with some running to hug their mothers or fathers. Some parents were sent back to their cars to get their identifications before they could leave with their children.

Most of the 2,500 students at the school have been evacuated and the school is now secure, police said. There are about 30 students and staff that were witnesses to the shooting that are still on campus working with authorities.

Jaylen Fryberg had sent a message from his Twitter account on Thursday that said “It won’t last…it will never last.”  KIRO 7 confirmed with sources close to him that the shooting was sparked by a breakup with a girl. Judd Luton, a parent of a Marysville-Pilchuck student, said his son, Jordan, told him that Jaylen went through a recent breakup and was distraught. Jordan said he didn’t believe he targeted specific students in the cafeteria.

A source said Fryberg had been suspended from school last week for being involved in a fight, and said Fryberg had been bullied.

A crossfit coach at the school described Fryberg as happy-go-lucky and ambitious. He was a member of the Tulalip Tribe who was interested in hunting.   A fellow student said Fryberg seemed happy and was talking to other students a few hours before the shooting.

A boy who new Fryberg said he sent text messages to his family asking them to take care of things after he was gone.

When the shooting erupted, multiple students and a teacher reported hearing gunshots, and KIRO 7 received emails and texts from relatives of students at the school shortly after.

“Our son just called to let us know that his kids are OK – his son was about 50 feet from the shooter – a student that he knows.  Our grandson and his friends ran away – jumped a fence and went to a home in the area.  He didn’t know about any victims but thought there was at least one,” said Tom Hopper, who emailed KIRO 7.

A student at the school, Rigo Perez, described what happened over the phone as he was inside the school.

“We just got evacuated by police to a church nearby.  I did not see the gunman. I was in the student store and it’s right next to the cafeteria, and then out of nowhere, we heard the shooting. We didn’t think it was nothing; we thought it was someone throwing down something, and then we saw everyone running out and we automatically knew it was a shooting. We ran into a back room and Mr. Miller helped us with getting all safe,” said Perez.

Casey Blakley and his daughter were driving by the school when they saw the huge police response.

“About every 30 seconds I had to pull over because there were so many cops and paramedics going by,” he said. “The road was blocked off from about two blocks away.”

“There were a bunch of kids on the next block that apparently fled the school. They were all huddled together talking to cars that drove by.”

A vigil is planned at Grove Church, 4705 Grove Street in Marysville, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

A FBI spokesperson in Seattle said the agency will help authorities with the investigation.

A trial date has been set for two men accused in the death of Alex Johnson, a Lexington man whose body was found in a barrel in the Kentucky River weeks after he went missing from his home in December of last year.

Timothy Curtis Ballard and Robert Marcum Taylor stood before a judge Friday and learned their trial date was set for Oct. 5 through Nov. 12.

Another status hearing will also be scheduled for both men on Jan. 30, 2014.

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Taylor is accused of beating Alex Johnson to death inside of a car the night he vanished and Ballard is accused of disposing of Johnson’s body while Taylor cleaned up the crime scene.

Taylor’s attorney, Sandra Downs, says they need time to prepare for the case since the prosecution is pushing for the death penalty for her client, who charged with murder and kidnapping.

Ballard is charged with kidnapping and evidence tampering.

Downs couldn’t comment much on the case, but says it “will be interesting.”

Police in Washington state say a shooter is dead after attack at a high school north of Seattle.

Marysville Police Commander Robb Lamoureux said Friday the shooter was a student and could not say if anyone else was wounded.

Live video showed students being evacuated from Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, about 30 miles north of Seattle.

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Arthur White, who lives across from the school, tells The Daily Herald a large number of police vehicles converged on the scene quickly late Friday morning.

Ayn Dietrich, an FBI spokesperson in Seattle, said the agency had personnel on their way to the scene to help authorities with the investigation.

The latest school shooting in the region happened at Seattle Pacific University, where a gunman killed one student and wounded two others on June 5.

A man trying to help a woman out ended up getting a knife pulled on him Friday morning.

The victim says a woman approached him at the Speedway on Georgetown Road and told him a story about needing money. He says he went to the ATM, got some cash and gave it to the woman. He says she told him that if he met her at the Walmart on Nicholasville Road, she would pay him back. The victim says after the woman got in her car, he went to double check on the meeting place and she pulled a knife on him. He says the woman told him to get away, so he got in his car and left.

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The victim told police the woman was in a silver four-door sedan with a breast cancer awareness license plate.

The owner of two furniture stores in Portland and White House has been arrested after police say he stole the identity of some of his former customers and applied for credit in their names.

Brian Lewis, 40 of Portland, was indicted by a Sumner County Grand Jury on Tuesday on 13 counts of identity theft, eight counts of forgery and one count of theft over $10,000.

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In February, special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and officers with the Portland Police Department began investigating Lewis, who owns Woodland Furniture stores in Portland and White House, following a request from Sumner County District Attorney Ray Whitley.

“The Portland Police Department had gotten some complaints about Woodland Furniture,” Whitley said. “The complaints were that people were saying that they were getting bills from GE Capital, a credit card company, for furniture that they had not purchased.”

During the investigation, authorities developed information that Lewis had used personal information from former customers’ prior credit applications to open new accounts, according to a TBI release. From September 2013 to January 2014, Lewis is alleged to have used customers’ data to apply for credit without their permission and received payments for false furniture sales.

“There were eight customers, and some of them were hit more than once,” Whitley said. “(Lewis) was coming up with fraudulent invoices and purchases for these various card holders when they had not bought any furniture and he was getting the money from GE Capital.”

Lewis turned himself over to police on Tuesday and was booked into the Sumner County Jail. He was later released on $10,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Sumner County Criminal Court on Oct. 30.

A 38-year-old Waco man was indicted Wednesday on seven counts in a case involving the sexual abuse of a young girl over a period of years.

The indictment against Jose Isreal Ramos charges one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child and six counts of indecency with a child by contact.

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Ramos was arrested in April by deputies from the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force on a warrant stemming from an investigation that started in July 2013 after a young girl reported she had been sexually assaulted a number of times over a period of years.

The girl reported she was assaulted both at a residence in Waco and in Cameron Park by a man she knew.

The incidents began when the girl was 9 and continued until she was 13, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

McLennan County grand jurors also returned an indictment against a 56-year-old Waco man charging two counts of indecency with a child by contact.

Steve Edward Perkins was arrested in August on warrants stemming from an investigation of allegations that a man who was babysitting two children touched one of them, a girl, inappropriately.

The girl’s father confronted the babysitter, who had been staying with the family for the past few days, Swanton said.

The man tried to leave, Swanton said, but was struck and suffered a head injury as the father detained him until officers arrived.

He was taken to a hospital for treatment before he was jailed, Swanton said.

The man was taken to a Waco hospital where he was treated for his injury and then taken to jail, Swanton said.

Two people in Boone County have been indicted after a toddler nearly drowned in a Northern Kentucky swimming pool.

Police say that 31-year-old Susan Stacy and her friend, 56-year-old Dwayne Johnson left Stacy’s 2-year-old son unsupervised at a motel pool, October, 12.

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The little boy ended up nearly drowning after he spent several minutes underwater in the deep end of the pool. He was transported to a hospital and released a few days later.

The toddler was not wearing a flotation device.

The two suspects are facing first degree wanton endangerment charges.

A Louisville teen was shot while waiting for his school bus Wednesday morning.

It happened around 7:15 a.m. near Taylor Boulevard on the city’s south end.

The 17-year-old’s aunt says her nephew was shot twice, once in the leg and once in the torso. She says two boys came up on bicycles wanting his cell phone.

Police say there was a brief dispute when one of the suspects pulled a gun, shooting the boy.

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“Our kids are not safe no matter where they go” said Sheila Coward. “It could have been my child, anybody’s child; doesn’t make you feel safe.”

Police say the victim’s injuries do not appear to be life threatening.

Senior United States District Court Judge Charles R. Simpson III, sentenced Craig Ian Elliott, age 47, to 15 years in prison followed by 20 years of Supervised Release for violating federal child pornography laws, namely, the production of child pornography, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

According to a written Plea Agreement previously filed in open court, on April 2, 2010, the defendant was living at a residence on Algonquin Parkway in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with his girlfriend. On that date, his girlfriend was at work, but her 17-year-old daughter was at home with Elliott after she finished school for the day. Elliott used his girlfriend’s cell phone—a Boostmobile Sanyo Mirro Model SCP 3810—to take sexually explicit photos of the girl. The cell phone was manufactured outside the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The metadata from the images showed that the pictures were taken at approximately 4:08 P.M.

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After Elliott took the photos of the girl, he used the cell phone to transmit the images, via the Internet, to his Yahoo! account. There is no evidence that he distributed the images to anyone else.

Assistant United States Attorney Jo E. Lawless prosecuted the case. The Louisville Metro Police Department’s Crimes Against Children Unit, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, conducted the investigation as part of Kentucky’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”

Police arrested a man who they say burglarized several homes in a Lexington neighborhood, and came to find out that man wasn’t supposed to be out of his home in the first place.

Several homes in the Winter Garden area have been burglarized lately. Just Thursday morning, police say three homes were broken into and they believe jewelry, electronics and money were taken.

A one of the homes, police say they found a broken window, but no suspect. They soon caught up with 18-year-old James Kiragu who was walking along a road nearby.

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He took offand was eventually caught. Police say Kiragu wasn’t supposed to leave his home; he had a monitoring device connected to his ankle, which he removed.

“We haven’t lived here that long and it’s already getting crazy,” said Destinie Cameron. “We thought it was going to be a good neighborhood, that’s why we came over here.”

Cameron’s mother , Mimi Craig, isn’t happy to hear the news either.

“Living alone with children it’s scary. But by the grace of God, we do have an alarm on the house,” she said. “It’s a blessing get him out of here. We don’t need that trouble over here, it’s a quiet neighborhood.”

Kiragu is now facing several charges including burglary and tampering with the monitoring device.