Police search for clues to deadly shooting at Oregon elementary school
Schools closed after one teacher and three children killed, and child and teacher hospitalized with critical injuries Police are investigating a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, where a 16-year-old opened fire on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher, before being shot dead by an armed bystander. Authorities in Oregon said that the three children killed at Silver…
BEND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Governor Tina Kotek commended a local individual who took action during the mass shooting at an elementary school, stating that their intervention helped end the rampage and possibly saved lives. The 16-year-old assailant, a resident of Bend, was found deceased inside the school following the incident. Three children, aged 5, 8, and 11, perished, along with a teacher.
Two others, a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher, were critically injured and taken to a hospital. The shooter used a pump-action shotgun, which was purchased by his mother.
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