The father of a teen who killed four students and himself last year at Marysville-Pilchuck High School was arrested Tuesday on charges that he illegally purchased the firearm used in the mass shooting.
Jaylen Fryberg's father, Raymond, is being charged with illegally obtaining the Beretta handgun, despite protection order against him.
At the time of the purchase in Jan. 2013, 45-year-old Raymond was the subject of a permanent protection order that prohibits him from possessing firearms. The Department of Justice said Raymond lied on forms forms at the time of the purchase stating he was not subject to a protection order.
He reportedly admitted in tribal court that he had violated the protective order and that he knew that he was subject to its terms.
Raymond will appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle at 2 p.m. on Tuesday and KIRO 7 will be there. Click here to read the federal criminal complaint against Raymond Fryberg.
In 2002, Raymond’s girlfriend asked the Tulalip Tribal Court for an order of protection alleging he had recently threatened her. She said in the past he physically assaulted her by hitting, slapping and pulling her hair, according to federal authorities.
The protection order was made permanent in September 2002 and had no expiration date. Ten years later, Raymond was back in tribal court and pleaded “no contest” to violating the protection order, according to federal authorities. He was fined and placed on probation for one year.
Less than four months later, federal officials say he went to Cabela’s sporting goods store on the Tulalip reservation and purchased the Beretta, and, over subsequent months, four other firearms.
On October 25, 2014, Jaylen, 15, used the illegally-purchased Beretta to kill four other students and himself at MPHS. Fryberg's cousin was critically injured but survived.
Click here to see photos from the Marysville-Pilchuck High School shooting that killed four students and the shooter.
“Guns in the hands of people who have demonstrated they will use violence is a dangerous mix that is prohibited by law,” Acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes said in a statement.
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