BEND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Multiple people, including children, were victims of a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary on Thursday afternoon, Bend Police said. The suspected active shooter is dead.<\/p>\n
Police responded to the school at about 12:59 p.m. after receiving a report that an unknown man had shot into a car.<\/p>\n
Within a minute, Deschutes County 911 dispatchers received multiple calls reporting that someone had entered the school and started shooting.<\/p>\n
Bend Police held a press conference shortly after the shooting:<\/p>\n
Dispatch sent an alert calling all law enforcement to the scene.<\/p>\n
Bend police officers arrived at 1:02 p.m. Seconds later, officers reported that the suspect had been shot and killed, possibly by a bystander, according to police.<\/p>\n
At least two victims were taken to a local hospital in unknown condition. Police said children were among the victims but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement was evacuating classrooms at the school.<\/p>\n
Bend-La Pine Schools buses were taking students to Journey Church at 61303 S. Highway 97 for reunification with their families. Police asked families and guardians to go there.<\/p>\n
Police asked the public to avoid the school and church areas because of a large law enforcement presence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are stunned and heartbroken by this senseless tragedy,\u201d Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook said. \u201cWe extend our deepest sympathy to the families and to everyone affected by this violence. No words can adequately express the grief our community is experiencing. Our immediate priorities are caring for our students and staff and assisting law enforcement and emergency responders.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back with KATU News for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEND, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Multiple people, including children, were victims of a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-883660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}