http://www.policeone.com/active-shooter/articles/7266143-Seattle-gunman-reported-a-rage-inside-to-police-before/
In 2010, Aaron Ybarra, now 26, had called 911 to report "a rage inside him" and said he wanted to hurt himself and others, according to a police report of the incident.
Two years later, officers responded again — this time finding him lying in the middle of the street in front of his suburban Mountlake Terrace home, ranting drunkenly for a SWAT team "to get him and make him famous."
The rage and thirst for notoriety may have got the better of him Thursday, when police say he stormed into a sciences and engineering building on the leafy campus of Seattle Pacific University, armed with a shotgun and more than 50 shells.
He fatally shot a 19-year-old freshman and wounded two other young people before his plan to kill as many people as possible — and himself — was thwarted by a student building monitor who pepper-sprayed and tackled him as he reloaded, officials said.
A King County Superior Court judge ordered Ybarra held without bail Friday. His attorney, public defender Ramona Brandes, said he was on suicide watch at the jail.
"He is cognizant of the suffering of the victims and their families and the entire Seattle Pacific community," she said. "He is sorry."
Ybarra worked at the Kenmore Shooting Range north of Seattle from 2003 to about three and a half years ago as a 'trapper' keeping score on practice shoots, according to range president John Conderman.
"This is so disappointing... We spend all of our energy trying to teach young people about responsible gun use," Conderman said.
It remained unclear why the private Christian university was targeted. Ybarra wasn't a student there, police said.
"I'm proud of the selfless actions that my roommate, Jon Meis, showed today taking down the shooter," fellow student Matt Garcia wrote on Twitter. "He is a hero."
Meis, a dean's list electrical engineering student, was emotionally anguished but not injured in the shooting, Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Gregg said Friday. He was treated there and released.
Roman Kukhotskiy, 22, who was in the building when the violence broke out, said: "I was amazed that he was willing to risk all that for us. If Jon didn't stop him, what's to say? I could have been the next victim."
He said Meis is getting married this summer and has accepted a job with Boeing, where he has interned in previous years.
Meis, who graduated from Seattle Christian Schools in SeaTac, kept a low profile the day after the shooting. An outgoing voice message at a phone listing for his parents' home in Renton said: "We ask that you please respect our privacy during this time while we recover."
Salomon Meza Tapia, a friend who serves with Meis on the board of a student engineers group, described him as a hardworking student who is "always super chill."
"I am not surprised he was cool and collected enough to take action," he wrote in an email to the AP. "I was in the building, and I can say he definitely saved our lives. I am thankful to be alive and thank God for Jon Meis' courage and actions."
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