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ByGeneJohnson The Associated Press MARYSVILLE,WASH. Apop- ular student responsible for a shooting at a Washington state high school on Friday invited his victims to lunch by text message, then shot them at their table, investi- gators said Monday. Snohomish County Sher- iff Ty Trenary said at a news conference that the five stu- dents were at a lunch ta- ble when they were shot by 15-year-old Jaylen Fryberg. Fryberg then committed suicide. Detectives are digging through reams of text mes- sages, phone and social me- dia records as part of an in- vestigation that could take months, Trenary said. "The question everybody wants is, 'Why?'" Trenary said. "I don't know that the 'why' is something we can provide." Fryberg, a football player who was named a prince on the school's Homecoming court one week before the killings, was a member of a prominent Tulalip Indian Tribes family. He seemed happy although he was also upset about a girl, friends said. His Twitter feed was recently full of vague, an- guished postings, like "It won't last ... It'll never last," and "I should have listened. ... You were right ... The whole time you were right." On Friday, after tex- ting five friends to invite them to lunch, he pulled out a handgun in the caf- eteria and started shoot- ing. The victims were Zoe R. Galasso, 14, who died at the scene; Gia Soriano, 14, who died at a hospital Sun- day night; Shaylee Chuckul- naskit, 14, who remains in critical condition; and his two cousins, Nate Hatch, 14, and Andrew Fryberg, 15. Hatch, who was shot in the jaw, is the only victim who has shown improve- ment. He was upgraded to satisfactory condition Mon- day in intensive care at Har- borview Medical Center in Seattle, while Andrew Fry- berg remained in critical condition there. "We are devastated by this senseless tragedy," her family said in a statement, read at a news conference by Providence Regional Medical Center's Dr. Joanne Roberts. "Gia is our beau- tiful daughter, and words cannot express how much we will miss her." Trenary also confirmed that the .40-caliber hand- gun used in the shooting had been legally purchased by one of Fryberg's rela- tives. It remains unclear how Fryberg obtained the weapon. WASHINGTON STATE Sheriff:Schoolshooter invited victims to lunch TEDS.WARREN—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A sign bearing the date of a shooting in the cafeteria of Marysville Pilchuck High School is shown Monday as part of a growing memorial on a fence around the school in Marysville, Wash. By Hussain Al-Qatari The Associated Press KUWAIT CITY The United States is pressing Arab na- tions and other allies to do more to counter the Islamic State group's slick propa- ganda campaign, with a top American envoy on Monday describing efforts to combat the extremist messages as a vital pillar in the fight to de- feat the group. The Islamic State group that has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a self-styled caliphate, or Is- lamic empire, in areas un- der its control embraces so- cial media platforms such as Twitter and YouTube. Hollywood-stylefilmclips and other elements of its media campaign boost the group's credibility among disaffected but plugged-in young Muslims and helps it promote its conquests, in- spire sympathizers and at- tract new recruits. Speaking at a gathering of anti-IS coalition partners in the oil-rich Gulf nation of Kuwait, retired U.S. Gen. John Allen said it is up to all members of the alliance to "clearly, forcefully and con- sistently" reject the group's ideology and offer alterna- tives to it. Allen, who is tasked with coordinating the U.S.-led coalition, characterized the fight in the communica- tions sphere as a crucial el- ement of an overall strategy that also includes confront- ing the group militarily and attempting to cut off its fi- nances. "It is only when we con- test ISIL's presence online, deny the legitimacy of the message it sends to vulnera- ble young people and expose ISIL for the un-Islamic cult of violence it really is ... that ISIL will truly be defeated," he said, using an alternate acronym for the group. The Islamic State group produces online magazines and polished propaganda videos that make use of mul- tiple camera angles, com- puter graphics and sophis- ticated editing techniques. One video released by its Al-Furqan media arm ear- lier this year included aer- ial footage apparently shot from a drone over the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which it now holds. In another twist, the group cast a British jour- nalist it holds, John Cantlie, as a sort of talk-show host speaking in a series of vid- eos about the group. Allen was joined in Ku- wait by Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel, who told reporters that an "information co- alition" is needed to com- plement the military cam- paign. "Whatever we do col- lectively on the battlefield needs to be amplified on the information battlefield," Stengel said. The United States and its allies have carried out hun- dreds of airstrikes against the Islamic State group since August. Washington is also trying to find ways to choke off the group's finances, which are estimated to include earn- ings of about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone. The group also makes money from extor- tion rackets and other crim- inal enterprises. While the group is not believed to rely heavily on outside donations, Amer- ican officials have urged Kuwait and Qatar in par- ticular to do more to stop private fundraising for ex- tremists. "We need to work with all of our partners in the region to close down for- mal and informal sources of support," U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said during a visit to Cairo on Monday. "We in the United States are determined to work with all of our allies in the region, not just on a military basis but on a financial ba- sis, to make sure that these sources do not continue to flow in and become a per- manent source of funding," he added. Sulaiman al-Jarallah, un- dersecretary at the Kuwati Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Monday his country is fighting terrorist financ- ing and has created a spe- cial task force to combat the problem. U.S.-allied Gulf nations including Qatar and Saudi Arabia also took part in the Kuwait conference, as did representatives from Tur- key, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, France, and Britain. So did the United Arab Emirates, which hosts air bases used by the coali- tion and is among the re- gional states that have car- ried out airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. One of its top diplo- mats echoed the American officials' message. "We will not be able win this war against IS and ter- rorism and lose the battle of public opinion," Anwar Gargash, the Emirati min- ister of state for foreign af- fairs, told delegates. "We have to win on all fronts: on the ground and also by winning hearts and minds against terrorism." MEDIA WAR Official urges allies to combat IS ideology KUNA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kuwait's ruling emir, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, right, meets Gen. John Allen, le , a retired U.S. general in charge of coordinating the U.S.-led coalition's fight against Islamic State militants, in Kuwait city, Kuwait, on Monday. By Peter Leonard The Associated Press KIEV, UKRAINE A s Ukraine's most ardently pro-European parties pock- eted a resounding collective election triumph Monday, thoughts turned to a reform agenda that promises pain and progress in equal doses. Although the outcome of Sunday's vote is in part fruit of a surge in anti-Rus- sian sentiment, Moscow says it will recognize the result and urged Ukraine's new order to grapple with the country's most pressing problems. With 72 percent of the vote counted Monday, the three main Western-lean- ing parties alone stood to win a combined 54 percent of the vote. Coalition nego- tiations were already un- derway. Parliament is now largely purged of the loyalists of for- mer President Viktor Yanu- kovych, who sparked months of protests — and eventually his ouster in February — with his decision to deepen ties with Russia instead of the European Union. Of the European-minded parties, Prime Minister Ar- seniy Yatsenyuk's Popu- lar Front had 21.9 percent of the vote while President Petro Poroshenko's party had 21.5 percent. A new pro- European party based in western Ukraine was run- ning third with 11 percent. The Fatherland party of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who has ar- gued strongly for NATO membership and is likely to join a pro-Europe coalition, had 5.7 percent of the vote. Poroshenko last month laid out an ambitious agenda envisioning signif- icant changes to Ukraine's police, justice and tax sys- tems, defense sector and health care — all to be com- pleted by 2020. Among the tougher decisions ahead will be allowing the cost of utilities in the cash- strapped country to float in line with market dictates. "Ukraine is pregnant with reforms," said political analyst Oleksiy Haran. "The elections showed that both the government and voters expect structural changes to bring Ukrainians closer to the European Union." Haran said measures to simplify regulations for pri- vate enterprise and to at- tract investment need to be adopted first. Hopeful businessmen in Ukraine complain that if excess red tape doesn't kill their ventures at birth, corruption does so further down the road. For that rea- son, initiatives to curb graft and overhaul the justice system should follow suit, Haran said. Poroshenko has also said he wants to see Ukraine be- come more self-reliant for its energy needs and farm out more powers to local government. The precise recipe of poli- cies to be pursued is subject of coalition negotiations. Messages from Western governments congratulat- ing Ukraine on its election pressed the reform theme further. President Barack Obama said in a statement Mon- day that the United States would assist Ukraine "pro- mote further democratic development, strengthen the rule of law, and fos- ter economic stability and growth in Ukraine." 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