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At least two people were hospitalized and the shooter is dead following a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon. Children are among the victims.
At least two people were hospitalized Thursday following a shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and the shooter is dead, authorities say. Children are among the victims, according to Sheila Miller, Communications Manager for the Bend Police Department.
Authorities received a call about a shot fired into a car outside Silver Rail Elementary at 12:59 p.m. local time, Miller said. Police arrived on scene within minutes. About a minute after the initial call, police received multiple 911 calls from within the school. Officers were on scene at 1:02 p.m. and “the shooter was down seconds later,” Miller said.
The suspect was inside the school, Miller said. It is not immediately clear who shot the suspect, though Miller noted, “It may have been a bystander.” The suspect’s identity has not been publicly released.
Silver Rail Elementary was under lockdown, the Bend-La Pine school district wrote on Facebook. Authorities are going room by room to clear the school and evacuate those inside. “We’re in the process at this time of going room by room and evacuating each of the people who are in that school,” Miller said. “This is the kind of thing we never want to see happen in Bend. It’s devastating.”
People in the school will be taken by bus to a reunification center set up at the nearby Journey Church. The Bend-La Pine Schools district urged locals to avoid the school area in a social media post at 1:30 p.m. local time.
The conditions of those injured were not immediately known. Miller stated, “We don’t have a number at this point. We know children are among the victims.”
Silver Rail Elementary serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade. According to the Oregon Department of Education, the school had 459 enrolled students as of last year. NBC News reported that between 400 and 450 children attend the school, which has a staff of more than 40 people.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek said she is “closely monitoring the situation at Silver Rail Elementary.” “I am grateful to the first responders who are on the scene. I will share as I learn more,” she said.
This incident represents a violent event at a public elementary school in Bend, Oregon, a city located more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Portland. The rapid response by law enforcement resulted in the death of the suspect shortly after the initial report, but the full extent of injuries to students and staff remains under investigation.
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