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School shooter’s dad faces new gun charges

Martha Bellisle Associated Press

SEATTLE – The father of the teenager who fatally shot four high school classmates and then himself in October has been indicted on five new federal firearms charges.

Raymond Lee Fryberg pleaded not guilty in April to illegally possessing the gun used in the slayings. Federal prosecutors said he was the subject of a permanent domestic violence protection order issued by the Tulalip Tribal Court in 2002. Federal law prohibits such a person from having firearms.

The indictment this week by a federal grand jury said Fryberg had a cache of weapons in addition to the one 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg used at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.

Each of the new counts is for a specific rifle or rifles. Several of the firearms listed are assault rifles.

Fryberg is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on the new charges.

Fryberg purchased a Beretta pistol Jan. 11, 2013, from a gun shop on the reservation, according to the complaint filed in March. He answered “no” on the purchasing form when asked if he was the subject of a restraining order.

Fryberg’s son used the Beretta to kill four friends and wound another.