Three children and a teacher were slain in Bend, Oregon, before a bystander shot the attacker dead.
A teenage gunman killed three students and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, police said. The shooter was himself shot dead by a bystander.
The culprit was identified as a 16-year-old Bend resident, the city’s police chief, Mike Krantz, said at a news conference. He did not reveal the suspect’s name or say whether he knew anyone at the school.
The three children killed were aged five, eight and 11. A seven-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were hospitalized in critical condition.
Krantz said the gunman was shot by a “community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him.”
The school has been placed on lockdown, and the Bend Police Department has urged the public to avoid the area.
According to The Source Weekly, parents received alerts that nearby schools, including Caldera High School and Jewell Elementary School, had also been placed on lockdown following a police alert at around 1:20 PM on Thursday. The lockdowns were lifted about 40 minutes later.
Video from the scene shows multiple police cars and ambulances near the school.
Paramedics seen staging at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon amid reported active shooter situation. https://t.co/9KnGY4LIEv
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FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau’s local office was working with investigators. “We will make every resource they need available,” he wrote on X.
“Today is an awful day for our community,” Bend Mayor Melanie Kebler said. “A school should be a safe place where children can learn and feel secure,” she added, expressing condolences to the victims’ families.
The shooting comes amid continuing concerns over gun violence at US schools. In August 2025, a gunman opened fire on children attending Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killing two students, aged eight and ten, and injuring 17 other people before taking his own life.
On SSRI’s?…
Bullied at the school previously???
Deliberately given low grades due to ‘Social Profiling’???
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Unmasking the Roots of Bullying in Modern Society
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From hostile high school hallways to the Oval Office, we’ve become a nation ruled by bullies, while those who are ostensibly there to protect us actively or passively enable them. In this trenchant expose, Donald Jeffries reveals how pervasive is the “bullyocracy” and suggests some of the social factors that can diminish its power.” —Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities
About the Author
Donald Jeffries began researching the JFK assassination as a teenage volunteer with Mark Lane’s Citizens Committee of Inquiry in the mid-1970s. His 2007 novel The Unreals was lauded by the likes of author Alexander Theroux and Night at the Museum screenwriter R. Ben Garant. His first nonfiction book, Hidden History: An Expose of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics, became a bestseller praised by everyone from Roger Stone to former Congressional Representative Cynthia McKinney to international peace activist Cindy Sheehan.
NOTICE THE ROLE THAT SPORTS PLAYS IN BULLYING?
NOTICE THE INCREASE IN RUGBY GAMES AIRING ON TVNZ?
NOTICE WEIRD OCCULTIC-LIKE HOCUS-POCUS GAMES AND PROGRAMS AIRING ON THE TELE SUCH AS ‘TRAITORS’, ETC. WHICH ENCOURAGES BULLYING ON MANY LEVELS??
Fuck sports…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQXGSb5PMUw
If you want to see how competitive a person is, then have them enlist for military service; then we’ll see who the ‘winners’ are!
Go and play the game of actual war which has only two outcomes; either you win and live, or lose and die!!!!
Mental illness and gun’s.