Child Killer in Oregon Shooting Spree Identified

He was himself killed by a good guy with a gun.

Alas, the killer murdered three children and an adult before he was cut down.

Three children and a teacher were killed, and two others critically wounded, in a shooting on Thursday at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, authorities said.

The suspect, a 16-year-old male, was shot and killed by a bystander, Bend police said.

Along with the teacher, the three children killed were ages 5, 8 and 11, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said in a news conference Thursday night. Two others, a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher, were taken to St. Charles Medical Center with critical injuries. No names were immediately released.

Krantz said that officers were called to the school just before 1 p.m. on a 911 call from a person who said they had been shot at several times while in their vehicle by a suspect with a long gun. Emergency dispatchers then received dozens of 911 calls that the suspect had entered the school.

The shooter forced his way into the school by "shooting at locked doors," Krantz said.

When officers arrived at the school within three minutes of the first 911 call, they discovered that the suspect had been killed by a bystander, Krantz said.

"An officer reported that the suspect had been shot by a community member who had seen the suspect enter the school and pursued him into the school and engaged him," Krantz told reporters.

After officers entered the building, Krantz said, they found the four deceased victims.

Officials would not say exactly what type of weapon was used in the attack or how many rounds were fired. Multiple law enforcement sources told CBS News the suspect used a shotgun.

There was no word on a motive.

Which causes us to very justifiably suspect it's one of the motives that the corrupt and craven establishment like to hide from the public.

The Teen of Obscured Allegiance was armed with a shotgun, the Daily Mail says,
purchased by his mother.

So he had the one weapon Joe Biden told people to buy, and it was likely legally purchased by a mother with no criminal record.

A teenage gunman who murdered three children and a teacher an an Oregon school shot through a secure area meant to keep children safe from killers like him, before being taken down by a hero bystander rumored to be a student's father.

The as-yet-unidentified 16-year-old was carrying a long gun that he used to shoot the locks out of 'secure vestibules' at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend shortly before 1pm PT Thursday, The Oregonian reported.

Those vestibules see visitors granted access to a locked porch area, whose second electronic door then opens into the school once they have been screened.

But that supposedly secure system was easily overcome on Thursday afternoon when the shooter shot his way into the special education area of the school and killed three children aged five, eight and 11 as well as a teacher. A seven-year-old child and 54-year-old teacher were also rushed to hospital in critical condition.

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[A teacher] said: 'They were so afraid, the looks on their faces. It was really hard to see, [I] was just trying to calm them down.

'Some kids were praying, some kids were consoling other kids, but doing so quietly because they know you don't make any noise.'

Smith and her students were ultimately rescued from being killed by a good Samaritan who spotted the teenager and followed him into the building, shooting him dead shortly after he began his rampage.

Dispatch audio suggested the hero was the father of a student at the school, with 'It looks like the shooter has been neutralized, possibly shot by a father at the school' picked up by multiple news outlets.

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One onlooker was sitting in his red Toyota Tacoma idling outside the school when he spotted the teen approaching the Silver Rail building with his gun.

Concerned by what he saw, the driver confronted the teen who returned a series of shots at the vehicle. A second good Samaritan then confronted the shooter inside the school and killed him.

A law enforcement official briefed on the shooting told The Associated Press the teen used a pump-action shotgun that was purchased by his mother.

The killer has been identified as John J. Griffin.

The heroic bystander is also being identified and he is, of course, a Chad.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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