'Blood Everywhere': Teachers Plead for Help in Marysville HS Shooting 911 Calls

Parents, teachers and students desperately pleaded for authorities in 911 calls to race to Marysville Pilchuck High School north of Seattle after a lone shooter fired upon his peers, with one of them imploring, 'I need help.'

'I'm in the cafeteria. I have the shooter. One shooter,' said a woman who identified herself as Megan Silverberger, a teacher. 'Blood is everywhere. I do not see the gun. I have him down.'

'I need help now. Shooter right here,' she continued, breathing hard. 'I tried to stop him before he shot himself.'

'He shot, many are down,' she later told the 911 operator. 'I do not know how many are down.'

Five students were shot on Oct. 24 by Jaylen Fryberg, a freshman who opened fire on the group as they sat at a cafeteria table. Four of the students died from their wounds; Fryberg shot and killed himself.

The 911 tapes reveal the chaos and fears in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. In one, a parent who said she guided students out of a side door from the cafeteria can be heard sobbing.

'He was just two tables away from my daughter,' said the woman, Anne Haughian.

In another, a boy, sounding out of breath, gave the operator a description of the shooter - calling him Jaden and noting he was a freshman - and said he didn't know where he was then, a few minutes after the shooting.

'I don't know I just ran out of the school. The door was right there and I'm out of the school right now,' he said.

IN-DEPTH - Miranda Leitsinger

First published November 12 2014, 4:45 PM

Miranda Leitsinger

Miranda Leitsinger is a reporter at NBC News. She started this role in February 2011. Leitsinger is responsible for long-term enterprise and breaking news coverage. Her beats include recovery from natural disasters and mass shootings, the LGBT community, income inequality, immigration and the Boy Scouts. Leitsinger previously worked at CNN.com in Hong Kong as a digital producer, where she collaborated with the network's television staff in Asia to produce enterprise stories for the website. Before that she worked as a reporter at news3blog.blogspot.com for seven years in various cities, including New York, Miami, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Bangkok, Thailand, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. She covered the aftermath of 9/11 in Florida, the 2004 tsunami in Asia, the initial military tribunal at Guantanamo and Cambodia's bid to recover from genocide and the ensuing decades of civil war.Leitsinger, a San Francisco native, lives in New York.