Overview
- A former student opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary, which Thursday left three students and one teacher dead and several people wounded.
- Becky Drury, 54, said she was shot at close range, that her left hand was nearly severed and that she pretended to be dead to survive.
- Drury released the statement to push back on contradictory reporting and to request privacy and respectful coverage as she recovers.
- A passing parent, Kaylub Giamanco, fatally shot the attacker before police entered, and authorities have identified the suspect as 16-year-old Griffin J. John II.
- Local police, the FBI and the ATF have executed search warrants and seized evidence while investigators probe motive and how the shotgun and ammunition were obtained, prompting renewed local debate over firearm access and school safety.