Teen shooter was former special needs student at Oregon school

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Oct 17, 2026
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A deadly school shooting yesterday in Oregon.
The community is still in shock
as police work to figure out what happened.
They say the teen shooter used to be a student at the school.
Fox's Caroline Elliott has the story.
I just figured, okay, today is a day that I'm sure
that every teacher at the school thought,
today is a day that I'm going to die, save my kids.
Teachers and students at Silver Rail Elementary School reliving
the horrific moments.
A 16-year-old shooter broke
into the school Thursday armed with a shotgun.
From her classroom window,
5th grade teacher Kathy Smith saw the shooter walking into the school.
She then called the front office to warn them
and hid her students at a corner,
praying he would not come into her classroom.
They were so afraid.
The looks on their faces.
It was really hard to see.
Trying to calm them down.
Some kids were praying.
Some kids were consoling other kids.
and so what they were doing so quietly
because they know you don't make any noise in total four
victims were killed a teacher
and three young students just 5 8 and 11 years old according
to police the shooter broke into the school using
a gun purchased by his mom the suspect went
directly into the classroom immediately to the left
of the entry doors where he fired as many
as 15 rounds all the victims were shot
in that classroom a teacher in the classroom threw her
cell phone at the suspect and then tackled him
and fought to take the firearm from him.
She was not injured in that incident,
but she almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed.
And police are praising a bystander
who stopped the shooter less than three minutes
after the attack started, saying it could have been much worse.
In New York, Caroline Elliott, Fox News.
