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TACOMA, Wash. — A man who appeared to have had an intense but intermittent obsession with a special-education teacher shot and killed her as she walked into her elementary school Friday, shortly before classes were to begin.
The assailant was killed in a shootout with a deputy a short time later about 10 miles away, said Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer.
The man had posted bail Monday, a few days after he was arrested for violating a protective order the teacher, Jennifer Paulson, obtained in September 2008.
Paulson’s father described the 30-year-old as a devout Christian and said she had been pestered by the shooter, Jed Waits, of Ellensburg, for years.
