Father of Marysville school shooter to be sentenced

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Federal prosecutors are asking that the father of a teenager who shot and killed four classmates at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in 2014 be sent to prison for 33 months when he is sentenced Monday for illegally possessing six guns, including the. 40-caliber pistol used by his son in the slayings.

Lawyers for Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr., however, say the tragic case has unfairly turned him into a “poster child” for perceived shortcomings in gun laws. They ask U.S. District Judge James Robart not to imprison Fryberg at all for his September convictions on six counts of illegally buying and possessing firearms.

“It cannot be ignored that Fryberg’s unlawful possession of the Beretta PX4 Storm, .40 caliber handgun is indirectly related to the use of that handgun by his 15-year-old son,” Jaylen, who on Oct. 24, 2014, used it to kill four classmates, wound a fifth, then take his own life in the cafeteria, wrote Assistant U.S. Attorney Ye-Ting Woo.

Woo said the government recognizes Fryberg can’t be punished for actions of others, but argued that the fact Fryberg illegally had the gun and allowed his son to have access to it “cannot be ignored and certainly played a contributing role” in the deaths.

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