Elementary school active shooter in my town (Bend, Oregon)

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There’s currently someone shooting up a local elementary school… :frowning:

No one I know is involved, but reddit has unconfirmed reports of 5 dead so far. The shooter themselves might’ve been killed by an armed father of one of the other children. All unconfirmed.

Sigh.

Edit: News is confirming shooter is dead, 2+ taken to hospital. At least 2 hurt, suspect dead after Bend police respond to shooter at Silver Rail Elementary School

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My partner’s coworker has a daughter there. She ran out of work crying.

The police are asking the schoolkids and families to gather at a nearby church, but we won’t know who is safe until the chaos settles.

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CNN is covering it.

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My concern for you and yours, and the community as a whole. I don’t want us, as a nation or society, to become numb to these events or consider them inevitable.

Here is the CNN link mentioned by @Beckdawrek for evolving information, but they don’t always stay open past the first hours/days.

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We’re in MPSIMS, so I won’t say my closest held feelings on the matter as they are more appropriate to the Pit.

I hope things are better than they sound on the news. I hate this is happening so close to your home – and mine, for that matter, as I’m just over the hills to the west. My best to you and yours, @Reply.

This is all just sickening.

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Too late. We passed that point long ago.

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As is MSNOW

:droplet: Amen. I won’t say more than that as my comments also most likely belong in the Pit

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Nothing much has been confirmed as of now, except that there are fatalities, which include children, and the shooter is dead, most likely by a civilian or a bystander.

A tragic story from top to bottom.

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Reports are now that three children were killed.

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I just saw on another website that the shooter was 16 years old.

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Just got home.

Death toll up to 5 now, including some children: https://apnews.com/article/oregon-school-shooting-silver-rail-elementary-b0642ec5cd3da0db24227a2798e2c6ce

Shooter was 15 or 16. Also dead now.

Coworker’s daughter is safe. It took a few hours to evacuate the kids to the reunification spot.

On the way home, my Lyft driver happened to be one of the evac bus drivers from earlier. He said they shut down the whole school district and rerouted all the school busses to help with the evacuation effort.

The way he told it, the school teachers and staff were pretty shaken, but trying to keep their composure for the kids’ sake. They bused them out one classroom at a time. Fortunately many of the children were too young to really understand what was going on, and didn’t seem as affected as the adults.

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Fuck. Absolute evil motherfucker. All the best to your community as you guys pick up the pieces.

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The City of Bend’s press conference just happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHrmXkNCY2Q

  • Shooter entered the school by shooting through locked doors, after first shooting at someone in a car. Shooter had a “long gun”.
  • Within a minute or two, law enforcement received the alert and ordered the school into a lockdown
  • An anonymous community member saw the shooter, pursued them into the school, and shot and killed the shooter
  • Law enforcement arrived a minute or two later to find the shooter and several other victims dead
  • 5 confirmed dead, including children ages 5, 8, 11, a teacher, and the 16-year old shooter. Two more transported to hospital.
  • The City is rounding up crisis counselors and making them available to affected family and the general public at a big local library

The community is pretty shaken. It’s only been a few years since the last mass shooting here at a Safeway.

The politicians are lining up to express their thoughts and prayers, and the rest… well, save it for the Pit.

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This story will soon fall right off the national news pages because:

Soon after, police learned that a community member followed the suspect into the school and shot him. Officers entered the building and found the suspect dead.

Good citizen with his own gun took the shooter out before police could even get set up to intervene. Ending the shooting spree. That doesn’t fit the proper narative.

3 children, 1 adult dead after shooting at Bend elementary school; Teen suspect dead

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A 12 gauge with 00 buckshot would make horrible wounds that the hospital has to treat. A 12 gauge slug is probably not survivable. It can punch a large hole in a exterior door.

My heart goes out to the families. I’m thankful the shooter was stopped before attacking more children.

https://apnews.com/article/oregon-school-shooting-silver-rail-elementary-b0642ec5cd3da0db24227a2798e2c6ce

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While I am glad that the shooter was stopped, I hate that the story perpetuates the good guy with a gun theory. I still don’t think more guns are the answer.

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Moderating:

This is not the thread to start or continue yet another gun debate. Take this discussion to another thread, please.

Bend, Oregon: on murdering child murderers {Moderator Instruction: Don't be the poster that turns this into a Gun Debate}
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I have created a thread: Bend, Oregon: on murdering child murderers. I can see there’s some discussion in gun thread, but I’m more interested in this aspect.

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Thank you!

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Another press conference is happening now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHKVplNPsZw

Current relevant updates:

  • The father (Gianmanco) had been driving near another car. The driver of the other car verbally confronted the mass shooter, and was shot at in return. Seeing this initial shooting, Gianmanco then followed the mass shooter into the school parking lot, saw the mass shooter force entry by shooting out the locked doors, and continued to fire additional rounds into one classroom.
  • That’s when Gianmanco entered the building with his legally owned pistol, heard more shots, and saw the mass shooter wrestling with a teacher. This is when he fired and struck/killed the mass shooter.
  • There was another hero in the incident: A teacher, upon seeing the gunman, threw her cell phone at him, charged him, and wrestled him. (I think this was the same teacher who Giamanco then saw, but it’s not entirely clear).
  • The mass shooter previously attended the elementary school that was shot up (Silver Rail Elementary).