Shot...

So much for following the law. Didn't prevent this asshole (and
hundreds more) from taking a good, innocent person's life.

Guns make evil deeds easier to accomplish. I'm sure the gun nazis
have an argument for this too...


TACOMA, Wash. -- A teacher was shot and killed at Birney Elementary
School early Friday by a man who police said was "infatuated with
her," and the suspect was later killed in a shootout with police.
Witnesses said the shooting happened during a confrontation in the
school parking lot at 1202 S. 76th Street about 7:30 a.m., which was
before students arrived for the day.

The victim's father, who arrived at the school after the shooting,
identified her as 30-year-old Jennifer Paulson.

"We want you to know she was a very kind, merciful loving person," Ken
Paulson said. "That's probably why she was a special ed teacher
because she loved so much.

"What happened today was evil. And it was a terrible thing."

Police spokesman Mark Fulghum said Paulson had recently gone to court
to get an anti-harassment protection order against the suspect, who
Ken Paulson identified as Jed Waits, from Ellensburg.

It "sounds like he had infatuation with her," Fulghum said.

Police earlier said the suspect made bail Monday after being arrested
Friday for violating a protective order she obtained in September
2009.

Court records showed the anti-harassment order was valid through
September 2010.

The gunman recently made bail after violating the order. Fulghum said
the two had apparently known each other since college, when they
worked together at a cafeteria at Seattle Pacific University.

Ken Paulson says his daughter hadn't heard from Waits for years after
she graduated, and then he called her parents' house looking for her.