A 16-year-old fatally shot three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, before being killed by a bystander. Police stated the unnamed attacker forced entry into the school on Thursday afternoon by shooting at locked doors.
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz reported that the teen was shot dead by "a community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him." The three children killed were aged five, eight, and 11. A seven-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to hospital in critical condition.
Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook stated, "We are stunned and heartbroken by this senseless tragedy." Law enforcement responded to reports of an active shooter at 12:59 local time, with the suspected shooter being killed around 13:02pm.