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<p>This picture provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Department shows Jed Ryan Waits. Waits, who appeared to have an intense but intermittent obsession with a special education teacher, shot and killed her as she walked into her elementary school Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, shortly before classes were to begin, and was killed in a shootout with a deputy a short time later, according to officials. (AP Photo/Pierce County Sheriff's Department)</p>

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Teacher killed outside Tacoma school
February 26, 2010 11 p.m.

Teacher killed outside Tacoma school

TACOMA, Wash. - A man who appeared to have 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.