On October 15, a 16-year-old former student shot out the glass panes of a side door at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. He then opened fire in a special needs classroom where he had once been taught. He killed three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher, and wounded a 7-year-old girl and a 54-year-old teacher. A father of two Silver Rail students followed him inside with a legally owned .40-caliber pistol and shot him dead.
Education Week’s tracker has recorded 26 K–12 school shootings with injuries or deaths so far this year, resulting in 17 deaths. The Bend attack was the deadliest.
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