SEATTLE — A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted Raymond Fryberg Jr. on a weapons charge.
Fryberg, 42, is accused of illegally possessing the Beretta PX4 Storm handgun which his son used to shoot five students at Maryville Pilchuck High School in October.
Andrew Fryberg, 15, and Zoe Galasso, Shaylee Chuckulnaskit and Gia Soriano, all 14, were killed. Nate Hatch, 14, was critically wounded but survived. The shooter, Jaylen Fryberg, 15, used the gun to kill himself.
Federal prosecutors allege that Raymond Fryberg was prohibited from owning guns because of a 2002 protection order issued by the Tulalip Tribal Court. They say Fryberg lied on federal paperwork about not being the subject of a domestic violence protection order.
The Tulalip man passed a background check when he bought the gun, and four others, because the protection order was never entered into national or state databases.
Fryberg was arrested last week and charged by complaint. A federal judge agreed to release him under strict conditions. Fryberg can’t be in homes with firearms, ammunition or dangerous weapons. He also had to surrender his concealed weapons permit.
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