At least 4, including 3 children, killed in US elementary school shooting

Authorities have indicated that the shooter was killed by gunfire, though details remain scant about the attack.

Police tape is placed outside Silver Rail Elementary school in Bend, Oregon, where a shooting took place on October 15 [Joe Kline/AP Photo]

At least four people have been killed, including three children, in a shooting at an elementary school in Oregon, part of the northwestern United States, according to statements from law enforcement to CBS and CNN.

The shooting on Thursday took place at Silver Rail Elementary school in the city of Bend, about 160km (100 miles) southeast of Portland.

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Authorities have said the shooter is dead, though it is unclear whether he is among the four people included in the initial death toll.

“We’re in the process at this time of going room by room and evacuating each of the people who are in that school,” said Sheila Miller, the communications manager for the Bend Police Department on Thursday. “This is the kind of thing we never want to see happen in Bend. It’s devastating.”

Miller said authorities received a call about a shot fired into a car outside the school at 12:59pm local time (19:59 GMT) and arrived on scene within minutes.

The suspect was shot and killed shortly after, though Miller said she did not know whether police or a bystander had subdued the alleged assailant.

The number and condition of those injured were not immediately known.

Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said in a post on social media that the agency was on the scene assisting local law enforcement in the investigation.

“We will make every resource they need available,” he wrote.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek also said she was closely monitoring the situation.

Jeff Merkley, who represents Oregon in the US Senate, was among the political leaders to offer condolences in the wake of the shooting.

“My heart is with the Bend community and all of the students and families affected. No one should have to fear violence at school,” he wrote in a post on the social media platform X.

当局表示，枪手已被击毙，但有关袭击的细节仍然很少。

俄勒冈州本德市银轨小学外拉起了警戒线，10 月 15 日这里发生了一起枪击事件。[乔·克莱恩/美联社照片]

据执法部门向哥伦比亚广播公司 (CBS) 和美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 发表的声明，美国西北部俄勒冈州一所小学发生枪击事件，造成至少四人死亡，其中包括三名儿童。

周四发生的枪击事件发生在位于本德市的银轨小学，该市位于波特兰东南约 160 公里（100 英里）处。

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当局表示枪手已经死亡，但目前尚不清楚他是否在最初公布的四名死亡者之列。

“我们目前正在逐个房间疏散学校里的所有人，”本德警察局通讯经理希拉·米勒周四表示。“这是我们绝不想在本德看到的事件。这太令人痛心了。”

米勒表示，当局于当地时间下午 12:59（格林尼治标准时间 19:59）接到报警，称学校外一辆汽车遭到枪击，并在几分钟内赶到现场。

嫌疑人随后被击毙，但米勒表示，她不知道是警察还是旁观者制服了这名嫌疑人。

目前尚不清楚受伤人数和伤情。

美国联邦调查局（FBI）局长卡什·帕特尔在社交媒体上发帖称，该机构已抵达现场，协助当地执法部门进行调查。

他写道：“我们将为他们提供所需的一切资源。”

俄勒冈州州长蒂娜·科泰克也表示，她正在密切关注事态发展。

代表俄勒冈州的美国参议员杰夫·默克利是枪击事件发生后表示慰问的政治领袖之一。

“我的心与本德社区以及所有受影响的学生和家庭同在。任何人都不应该在学校里害怕暴力，”他在社交媒体平台X上发帖写道。