What to know about the shooting
- Three children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday authorities said.
- The children were 5, 8 and 11 years old. Two other people, a 7-year-old and another teacher, were critically injured.
- All of the victims were shot in one classroom, which was a special needs classroom, officials said.
- The suspect, identified by police as Griffin J. John II, was a 16-year-old Bend resident. He was armed with a long gun and gained entry into the school by shooting through locked doors, officials said.
- Authorities credited a community member who killed the gunman and a teacher who tackled him with preventing further loss of life. The man’s brother said he is a father of two students at the school who heard the gunshots while driving home.
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