Shooting at Bend elementary school leaves victims dead

Bend police reported a fatal shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, October 15, after a gunman entered the school. Children were among the victims, police said, and at least two people were taken to a hospital. The suspected shooter was dead by the time officers arrived. A law-enforcement source separately told news organizations that three children and one adult were killed. That preliminary four-fatality account was not confirmed in the police statements cited in reports. Police spokesperson Sheila Miller said authorities had not established the total number of victims. Police said dispatchers received a report shortly before 1 p.m. that someone had fired a shot into a car outside the school. About a minute later, emergency calls reported that a person had entered the building and started shooting. Officers arrived within minutes, and the suspect was found dead inside the school, Miller said. Police had not confirmed who shot the suspect. Miller said a bystander may have intervened, but described that possibility as unconfirmed. Reports identifying the suspect as 16 also attributed that information to law-enforcement sources; police had not...