Father Of School Shooter Arrested

SEATTLE (AP) — The father of a Washington state high school student who killed four classmates and himself last fall has been arrested on a federal charge that he was barred from possessing the gun his son used in the shooting.

Raymond Lee Fryberg Jr. appeared Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Prosecutors asked that he be kept in custody. A detention hearing was scheduled for Thursday. Fryberg said nothing during the brief hearing. He faces one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

An FBI agent alleged in a criminal complaint that although Fryberg was subject to a domestic violence protection order, he purchased five guns from a Cabela's outdoor store, including the Beretta pistol his son used.

Fifteen-year-old Jaylen Fryberg shot and fatally wounded four friends and seriously wounded another last October in the cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.

In a statement, Cabela's says it "strictly complies with federal, state and local laws regulating the sale of firearms."