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A second student has died after a freshman’s shooting rampage Friday at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, Seattle Times reports.
Gia Soriano, 14, died Sunday night at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, a hospital official announced at a news conference. She had been hospitalized in critical condition since the shooting.
Dr. Joanne Roberts, chief medical officer for the hospital, read a short statement written by Gia’s family:
“We are devastated by this senseless tragedy. Gia is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her. We’ve made the decision to donate Gia’s organs so that others may benefit. Our daughter was loving, kind and this gift honors her life.”
The freshman was one of five students shot in the Marysville-Pilchuck cafeteria Friday morning by freshman Jaylen Fryberg, who then fatally turned the handgun on himself. Zoe Galasso was pronounced dead the day of the shooting, which has left the Marysville community reeling.
Three other victims remain hospitalized.
The announcement of Gia’s death came on the same day Marysville-Pilchuck students and community members gathered to grieve and try to make sense of the shootings by Fryberg, a member of the freshman football team who had recently been named a homecoming prince.
In one gathering, 1,000 or so students and adults crowded into a high-school gymnasium on Sunday afternoon in the school gymnasium.
