Four killed in Oregon elementary school shooting, including three children aged 5 to 11

A 16-year-old shooter killed three children, aged 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday. According to the Daily Maverick and BBC News, the suspect entered the school by firing through locked doors. The shooter, identified by The Times of Israel as a resident of Bend, was killed by an unidentified armed community member who pursued him into the school.

Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz reported that a 7-year-old student and a 54-year-old teacher were hospitalized with critical injuries. BBC News noted that emergency services responded to reports of an active shooter at 12:59 local time, following an initial call regarding a suspect shooting a long gun into a vehicle.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek thanked the community member for intervening to stop further loss of life. Steven Cook, a top administrative official for the local school district, expressed that the community is heartbroken by the tragedy.

Brief written by urgent.news from Euronews, Daily Maverick, BBC News, Business Recorder, The Times of Israel — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.