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Oregon father is the latest armed civilian to confront a gunman in a U.S. mass shooting

The heroic "good guy with a gun" who can stop an attack even before law enforcement can arrive has long been a rallying cry by gun rights advocates, arguing that armed citizens can act as a first line of self-defense and public protection.

Teacher Killed in Oregon School Shooting Was Working Her ‘Dream Job,’ Family Says

17 October 2026 at 00:29
Megan Lambert graduated from high school in the district where she taught. She died in a classroom with Rhoam Summer and two other children when a shooter attacked.

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Community members at Drake Park in Bend, Ore., on Friday, the day after a gunman killed three children and a teacher nearby at Silver Rail Elementary School.

Oregon school shooter attacked special education classroom, police say

Police in Bend, Oregon, are still investigating the motive behind the deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School. Four people were killed, including three young children and a teacher. Police identified the shooter as a 16-year-old who previously attended the school. They said he attacked a special education classroom before being killed at the scene. William Brangham reports.

What makes the Oregon school shooting different – and what can be learned

There are many more questions to be answered about the deadly elementary school shooting in Bend, Oregon. To explore some of them, Amna Nawaz spoke with James Densley, professor and chair of criminology and criminal justice at Metro State University. He is best known for co-creating the Violence Prevention Project, a database of mass shooters in the United States.

Oregon Has Approved Tight Gun Laws, but They Have Been Held Up in Courts

16 October 2026 at 04:47
The state has passed restrictive measures popular among gun safety activists. The Silver Rail Elementary School shooting seemed poised to set off conversations about gun control.

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A sheriff’s deputy outside Silver Rail Elementary school, where a shooting took place on Thursday.

Four Killed in Oregon Elementary School Shooting

16 October 2026 at 05:21
Silver Rail Elementary School shooting in Bend, Oregon, kills three children and a teacher.

Three children and a teacher were killed at a school in Bend. Police shot dead the 16-year-old suspected gunman.


Four people, including three children aged five, eight and 11 and a teacher, were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, according to preliminary information from authorities. Police shot dead the 16-year-old suspected gunman, Sheila Miller, a spokesperson for the Bend Police Department, said.

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Police were first alerted at around 1 p.m. local time to a person firing shots at a car. Minutes later, emergency services began receiving multiple calls reporting an active shooting at an elementary school in the area.

Authorities initially confirmed several victims but did not provide details about their medical conditions. At least two people were taken to hospitals for emergency treatment, Miller said.

⚡️GOOD SAMARITAN with a ‘LONG GUN’ PERSONALLY KILLS the Oregon elementary school shooter

‘The suspect had been shot by a COMMUNITY MEMBER who had seen the suspect enter the school, pursued him into the school, and engaged him’ https://t.co/cIBxSHPop9 pic.twitter.com/xadJ6NsXEL

— RT (@RT_com) October 16, 2026

Silver Rail Elementary School was closed, and authorities established a designated meeting point for family members to reunite with students affected by the incident.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said she was closely monitoring the situation and praised law enforcement for its rapid response in a message posted on her official Facebook account.

The shooting comes amid a year marked by more than 350 mass shootings across the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive, an organization that tracks gun violence. The group defines a mass shooting as an incident in which at least four people are killed or injured, excluding the shooter.

The incident follows a shooting on Saturday in Erie, Pennsylvania, where at least eight people, including two children, were killed after a gunman opened fire before dying by suicide, according to the press release.

Usa, drammatica sparatoria in una scuola dell’Oregon: muoiono tre bimbi (5, 8 e 11 anni). L’aggressore è un 16enne, “ucciso da un passante”

16 October 2026 at 04:27

I tre bambini uccisi da un ragazzo di 16 anni nella scuola elementare in Oregon, Stati Uniti, avevano 5, 8 e 11 anni. Lo ha detto la polizia di Bend, dove è avvenuto l’attacco. Secondo il capo della polizia di Bend, Mike Krantz, un passante ha visto l’adolescente entrare nella Silver Rail Elementary School intorno alle 13:00 e lo ha seguito all’interno, aprendo il fuoco e uccidendolo prima dell’arrivo degli agenti. Secondo quanto riferito dalle autorità, un bambino di 7 anni e un’altra insegnante sono rimasti feriti e sono stati trasportati in ospedale.

Una sparatoria avvenuta giovedì in una scuola elementare nello Stato dell’Oregon, nel nord-ovest degli Stati Uniti, ha provocato “diverse vittime”, ha reso noto la polizia; secondo diversi organi di informazione, tre bambini e un adulto sarebbero rimasti uccisi. La polizia ha dichiarato che l’aggressore, un sedicenne, è stato “colpito e ucciso”. Sheila Miller, portavoce del dipartimento di polizia di Bend, ha spiegato che gli agenti sono intervenuti in seguito alla segnalazione di un colpo di arma da fuoco esploso contro un’auto; pochi minuti dopo, sono giunte numerose chiamate di emergenza che riferivano della presenza di un uomo armato all’interno della scuola.

Gli agenti sono arrivati ​​sul posto pochi minuti dopo la chiamata, giunta alle 13:00 ora locale (22:00 in Italia), e hanno ricevuto via radio la notizia che “l’aggressore era stato colpito e ucciso”. Miller ha precisato che non è ancora noto chi abbia sparato al sospettato; potrebbe essersi trattato di una persona presente sul posto. In una dichiarazione successiva, la polizia ha confermato che “tra le vittime ci sono dei bambini” e ha aggiunto che almeno due persone sono state trasportate in un ospedale locale. “Al momento non si conoscono le loro condizioni”.

Secondo quanto riferito da CNN e CBS News, che citano fonti delle forze dell’ordine, quattro persone — tre bambini e un adulto — sono rimaste uccise. La CNN ha riportato che l’aggressore sarebbe un ragazzo di 16 anni, un dettaglio che la polizia non ha ancora confermato. Miller ha riferito che la scuola elementare Silver Rail è frequentata da un numero compreso tra 400 e 450 bambini e conta oltre 40 membri del personale. Dopo la chiusura di sicurezza dell’istituto, il distretto scolastico di Bend-La Pine ha comunicato che le forze dell’ordine stanno scortando gli alunni, a bordo di autobus, verso un’altra sede dove le famiglie potranno ricongiungersi con i propri figli.

Il sovrintendente del distretto scolastico di Bend-La Pine, Steven Cook, ha dichiarato che i responsabili del distretto sono “sconvolti e addolorati per questa tragedia insensata”. “Esprimiamo il nostro più profondo cordoglio alle famiglie e a tutti coloro che sono stati colpiti da questa violenza. Non esistono parole in grado di descrivere adeguatamente il dolore che la nostra comunità sta vivendo”. In una nota, il distretto scolastico di Bend-La Pine ha comunicato che le lezioni di venerdì in tutte le scuole del distretto, così come le attività e gli eventi sportivi, sono stati annullati. La scuola elementare si trova a circa 270 chilometri a sud-est di Portland e accoglie alunni dalla scuola dell’infanzia fino alla quinta elementare.

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School Shooting in Oregon Adds Silver Rail Elementary to Grim List

16 October 2026 at 02:55
A long string of school shootings have stricken the nation over the last three decades.

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A police officer outside of Silver Rail Elementary school on Thursday.

Where the rivers run: ranking U.S. states by hydropower

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6 October 2026 at 16:30

This infographic reveals the top U.S. states for hydroelectric power generation. Washington leads in total output, followed by Oregon and California. See where hydropower is strongest across the country.

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If you fire missiles at me, I’ll cut off your water supply: The cyberattacks attributed to Iran that showed the US is vulnerable

29 September 2026 at 10:15

Water service failed in at least 300,000 Atlanta households on July 27. Taps ran, but only a trickle came out. After receiving several consumer alerts, the water company found that a pumping station had stopped functioning, affecting that city and others in the state. The loss of pressure led authorities to advise boiling water before drinking it to reduce the risk of contamination, sparking some panic among the population. It was not a technical fault: everything points to it having been orchestrated from a computer almost 7,000 miles away, in Iran.

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Message displayed on devices attacked by CyberAv3ngers in Aliquippa (Pennsylvania) during the 2023 campaign.

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Flint in Michigan, one of the states whose water-supply infrastructures were attacked this summer.

Moment, Expand

11 August 2026 at 16:15

Ahead of the 40th anniversary of Stand By Me, Alec Joyner takes up Rob Reiner’s classic film and considers it from a few dozen angles. It’s a canny piece of critical writing on time, memory, masculinity, and tenderness, forces that often work against each other. (Joyner doesn’t raise the subject of Reiner’s violent death last year, though he pauses briefly on Chris, a character “freakishly knifed to death . . . trying to break up a fight.”) Stand By Me‘s two days of summer are a “vital pause” in the life of its characters, a “portal . . . into the expanse of time.” Here, Joyner illuminates that pause, and captures some of its elusive grace.

Stand by Me was slapped with an R rating, for the boys’ profanity, as well as the prominence of child abuse and death. This may have hampered ticket sales, but it also made it the first R-rated movie that many ’80s and ’90s kids saw. It made it a fitting rite of passage.

Still, there’s something lamentable in the verdict, the MPAA telling a faulty story much like the fictional adults of Castle Rock. How many blockbusters have promoted horrendous violence, only to make the PG-13 grade because they feel safely unreal? Stand by Me was received as dangerous because its horrors and its dirt live at home.

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