Three children, teacher killed in US elementary school shooting

At slightest 4 people, including 3 children and a teacher, person been killed successful a shooting astatine an simple schoolhouse successful Bend, Oregon, successful the northwestern United States, according to section police.

The incidental occurred connected Thursday astatine Silver Rail Elementary School, located astir 160 kilometres (100 miles) southeast of Portland.

Bend Police Chief, Mike Krantz said the children who died were aged five, 8 and eleven. A teacher was besides among the fatalities.

Two different victims, a seven-year-old kid and a 54-year-old teacher, were taken to St Charles Medical Center successful Bend with captious injuries.

Speaking astatine a quality league successful the afternoon, Krantz identified the suspected gunman arsenic a 16-year-old nonmigratory of Bend who was killed astatine the scene. Authorities person not disclosed the suspect’s identity.

“What the archetypal probe is showing is that the shooter had forced their mode into the schoolhouse by shooting astatine locked doors,” Krantz said, adding that investigators were inactive trying to found whether the teen had antecedently attended the school.

Police and different exigency responders began receiving distress calls astatine astir 12:59pm section clip (19:59 GMT), followed by dozens of further calls wrong minutes.

According to Krantz, the archetypal study came from “a idiosyncratic successful a conveyance who reported ...