Teacher and dad stopped Bend shooting
The gist
A teacher tackled a 16-year-old gunman at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore.
Three children and a teacher were killed.
How it unfolded
- Oct 15, 2026A 16-year-old opened fire with a shotgun at Silver Rail Elementary, killing three children (ages 5, 8 and 11) and a teacher and critically injuring a 7-year-old student and a 54-year-old teacher.
- Oct 15, 2026The first 911 call came at 12:59 p.m. from a passing pickup driver who said someone was shooting at the truck; the teen had thrown his shotgun over a fence and climbed it to reach campus.
- Oct 15, 2026A second driver, a father of two students at the school, followed the armed teen inside, grabbed his legally secured .40-caliber pistol and fatally shot him just before law enforcement entered.