Overview
- The shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, left three children and one adult dead and several others wounded.
- Officers arrived minutes after reports of gunfire to find the 16‑year‑old suspect dead inside the school and investigators are reconstructing the sequence of events.
- Some media have reported a civilian, including accounts naming a student's parent, shot the attacker but Bend police say that claim has not been confirmed.
- Law‑enforcement sources told CBS News the attacker reportedly used a pump‑action shotgun, and emergency teams set up a family reunification point while taking wounded people to local hospitals.
- Local police say they are collecting scene evidence and working with federal agents to determine motive and whether the person who shot the attacker acted lawfully.