Students return to Bothell High School after brutal attack
May 23, 2016, 6:03 AM
Marlys Helgeland, who has lived across the street from the high school for at least half a century, says the school has never been a crime scene. (KIRO 7)
(KIRO 7)
Classes are back in session today at Bothell High School, after being canceled Friday in the wake of a brutal attack on a teacher.
On Sunday, investigators poured over surveillance video, searching for the person who attacked a 63-year-old shop teacher after school last Thursday.
Cal Pygott was found bleeding from the head drifting in and out of consciousness Thursday afternoon. He had zip tie around his neck.
Marlys Helgeland, who has lived across the street from the high school for at least half a century, says the school has never been a crime scene.
“I do know the man that was injured,” Helgeland told KIRO 7. “And I feel badly about that. But we’ve never had anything happen around us.”
Helgeland’s husband, a retired Naval intelligence investigator, doesn’t believe the attack was random. He told KIRO 7 that “it has to be” someone that knew him.
Along with the surveillance video, police canvassed the neighborhood. They wrapped up their investigation on school grounds around 8 p.m. on Friday.
Pygott’s son, Erik, told The Seattle Times that his father is recovering from the attack and is physically OK.
