“Only God knows what escalated this. Only God knows,” says Don Hatch, the grandfather of a teen who’s been critically injured during a shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Washington. “I’ll say, ‘I feel for you and I’ll pray for you,'” he adds after stating that he would visit the family of Jaylen Fryberg, the teen shooter.

Fryberg – immediately following the shooting, shoot and killed himself – just went into the school’s cafeteria and open-fired. One student died on site and four others Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, Andrew Fryberg, 15, Gia Soriano, 14 and Nate Hatch remained in critical condition – until Sunday evening. Soriano died in the hospital.

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“We are devastated by this senseless tragedy,” Gia’s family said in a statement. “Gia is our beautiful daughter and words cannot express how much we will miss her.”

Andrew and Nate were the cousins of Jaylen, the shooter. It’s unclear as to why he decided to take his life as well as the life of others, especially since he was such a popular kid.

By all accounts, Jaylen was a popular student. Just a week ago, he had been named the high school’s freshman homecoming prince.

“It’s weird to think about, because you see him and he is such a happy person,” sophomore Alex Pietsch said. “You never really see him be so angry and so upset. … People were telling me who it was when I was getting in my mom’s car and I was like, ‘What? This is not happening. … This is crazy.’ It was just surprising to me that him, out of all people, would be the one.”

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