What we know about the investigation into the Bend school shooting

Students in this Oregon community won’t be returning to classes on Monday as they continue to mourn three classmates and a teacher killed in the United States’ latest school shooting, the motive of which is still unknown.

Officials in Bend, Oregon, are investigating what led a 16-year-old former student of Silver Rail Elementary School to return to the school and open fire inside a special needs classroom on Thursday. Teacher Megan Lambert was killed along with students 5-year-old Rhoam Summer and two others, aged 8 and 11, police said.

“We hold each of them and their families and their loved ones close in our hearts as we mourn together as one community,” Bend-La Pine Superintendent Steve Cook said in a video posted Sunday. “Our responsibilities to care for one another will continue well beyond these first days.”

The shooting stopped when another teacher intervened to tackle the suspect before a good Samaritan — who saw the gunman enter the school and trailed him — fatally shot him, police said.

Here’s what we know about the Silver Rail Elementary shooting , the 36th in the United States this year on K-12 school grounds, according to CNN’s analysis of multiple databases, including the Gun Violence Archive.

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Law enforcement officials are still looking to understand why the gunman, identified as Griffin J. John II, forced his way into his former elementary school, opening fire into the mixed-age special needs classroom. He previously attended special needs classes at Silver Rail Elementary, officials said, but they couldn’t confirm whether he had been a student in that specific classroom.

Investigators on Thursday interviewed the shooter’s parents, who were cooperative with officials, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN on Friday. Officials also searched the shooter’s home, obtaining computers and other electronics, the source said. Local investigators and the FBI will work to gain access to the devices to see if there’s a trail that leads to the shooting.

The shooter used a Maverick 88 pump-action 12-gauge shotgun, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said Friday. He had about 44 remaining rounds of ammunition, Krantz added.

The gun was purchased by his mother, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN on Friday.

Oregon law doesn’t allow minors under age 18 to legally purchase a shotgun, but they may legally possess one if a parent or guardian, or a person with the parent or guardian’s consent, transfers the firearm to them. They can lawfully temporarily possess it for hunting, target practice or shooting sports, according to the state statute.

The gunman was an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the group confirmed on Sunday.

“The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians is heartbroken by the tragic loss of life at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend,” CEO Kurtis Barker said in a statement provided to CNN. “We extend our deepest condolences to the families who lost loved ones and hold in our thoughts those who were injured, the students and staff who experienced this unimaginable tragedy, and the entire Bend community as they grieve.”

The students killed include Rhoam Summer, 5, and two others, who were 8 and 11 years old. The families of the two other children requested that police not publicly identify them, the Bend Police Department said.

Rhoam’s father, Kelik Summer, shared a statement in a Facebook community group after his son’s death.

“Today has been the worst day of my life. My son Rhoam was killed in a school shooting,” Summer wrote late Thursday. “We are broken and lost, but are surrounded by friends and family who are keeping us safe.”

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Megan Lambert, a 25-year-old special education teacher, was also fatally shot. Her family said in a statement shared by police that working at Silver Rail was her “dream job.”

A native central Oregonian, Lambert grew up in Bend and graduated from nearby Mountain View High School in 2019. She went on to graduate in 2023 from Boise State University, in Idaho, her family statement said.

“Megan was compassionate and had a huge heart,” her family statement said. “She always fought for the underdog and those with special needs. She was an incredible sister, daughter, niece, and granddaughter. Her friends became her family. She was funny and opinionated, and she lit up the room.”

Becky Drury, a 54-year-old inclusion educational assistant from Bend, and Saylor Graham, 7, were injured in the shooting and taken to local hospitals.

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Drury had serious but not life-threatening injuries. Her husband, Will Drury, said she has needed surgeries for wounds to her left arm and right hand, according to a post reshared by Drury’s mother-in-law on Facebook.

“The kindness and concern shown to our family and everyone affected mean more than we can express. We live in a truly special community,” Will Drury said in a separate statement. “Right now, our focus is on my wife, Becky, and her recovery.”

Saylor, who was identified in two verified GoFundMe campaigns, received lifesaving care at the scene and was taken to Oregon Health & Science University, where she was listed in serious but stable condition, Bend Police said Friday.

“Saylor is the definition of light and joy,” Matt Sampson, executive director of the Sparrow Clubs, a Bend-based nonprofit that provides financial and emotional support to children with medical needs and their families, told CNN, adding he had known Saylor for the past few years.

“Her life story of determination, resilience and strength has inspired countless students and others in her community, including those of us at Sparrow Clubs,” he said.

When the gunman was seen jumping over a fence to enter the school, a driver in a red Toyota pickup confronted him, police said. The gunman shot at the truck, hitting it at least three times, officials said. The driver then went down the street and called 911 just before 1 p.m.

In the span of about three minutes, the gunman forced his way through double doors, firing multiple rounds into glass panes in the doors to enter, police said. He then went directly to the special needs classroom, immediately to the left of the entrance, and fired as many as 15 rounds, police said.

A second driver, identified by family as 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco, was on his lunch break when he saw the encounter between the shooter and the pickup driver, according to his mother and police. Giamanco, a father of two children at the school who had a legally secured 40-caliber pistol with him, drove into the school parking lot and followed the shooter into the school, police said. He made his way through a window the gunman shot out, his mother, Kenda Freeman, told CNN affiliate KOVR/KMAX.

Inside the school, a teacher threw her cellphone at the shooter and tackled him to get the shotgun away, Krantz said.

Giamanco heard gunfire and saw the teacher physically struggling with the gunman, and he then fired at the suspect multiple times, killing him, police said.

Giamanco, a contractor with experience handling guns, called his mom immediately after the shooting, she said.

“He said, ‘Mom, I just shot and killed somebody,’” Freeman said.

“A man went into my daughters’ school and shot kids,” Giamanco said, according to his mom.

“He said, ‘I looked at him point blank, and I shot and killed him, mom,’” Freeman said.

Both of Giamanco’s children survived, but Freeman said her son is traumatized.

“I told him he saved a lot of lives,” Freeman said. “’He said, ‘Mom, I couldn’t save them all.’”

President Donald Trump called Giamanco “a great hero” who “took care of business.” Lambert’s family said they are grateful for the father, calling him a “hero,” for putting himself at risk for others.

It’s unclear how the shooter was able to bypass the school’s security measures, according to Steven Cook, superintendent of Bend-La Pine Schools, the school district that includes Silver Rail Elementary.

The school district had been outfitted with secure entry vestibules, photo ID checks and visitor screenings, indoor and outdoor security cameras and upgraded locks on classroom doors that can be secured from the inside, the district said. Some of those measures, including the locking system, were upgraded in 2022.

Silver Rail had also practiced a lockdown drill about two weeks before, one of two drills every school in the district practices annually, Cook said Friday. During the recent drill, he said four school resource officers (SRO) were present.

When the shooting happened, the assigned SRO wasn’t at the school but at a nearby school. Sheila Miller, a spokesperson for the Bend Police Department, said the SRO oversees six or seven schools.

Fifth-grade teacher Kathy Sheil Smith describes quietly sheltering her terrified students after seeing a gunman enter Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon. The attack killed three children and a teacher and critically injured two others before a community member pursued and fatally shot the 16-year-old gunman, police said.

The school district will be reviewing its emergency response procedures, safety plans and other factors related to the shooting, Cook said.

The number of school shootings in the country should spur conversations about “responsible gun ownership,” US Rep. Janelle Bynum, an Oregon Democrat who represents Bend, told CNN on Friday.

“This school, we had invested money in to make sure that it was locked,” she said. “They did all of their drills as expected — everything that we’ve said that will protect kids up to now, and yet it didn’t work.”

Silver Rail Elementary is closed until further notice, the district said in an update.

Students elsewhere in the district are set to return to classes Wednesday on an early-release schedule.

In the aftermath of the shooting, hundreds of people have shown up for crisis counseling offered by the district and local health systems, Cook said.

Dr. Logan Clausen, a Bend pediatrician, told CNN her office’s parking lot was filled with loved ones waiting for news of loved ones on the day of the shooting. Her clinic, Central Oregon Pediatric Associates, is now helping parents talk to their children about what they experienced or what they’re observing in their community.

Silence for children can be scary, so parents should initiate conversation, she said. This can include talking about what they know, what they’re feeling, and gently correct inaccurate information, she said.

“You can talk about what schools are doing, you can talk about what police are doing, you can talk about action that they can do to feel safer,” she said.

Edna, a mother with two children at Silver Rail, said she was picking up her son for a doctor’s appointment when the shooting started. Days after, Edna, who asked that her last name not be used, was going to take her son to the museum, but he was scared if a shooting could happen there, too, she told CNN’s Nick Watt on Saturday.

“How do I tell him that, like I mean, I don’t even know,” she said. “I don’t even know if it’s going to happen again.”

While students at other schools in the district will soon return to classes, Silver Rail stands empty. Near yellow police tape strewn around the shuttered campus, mourners have made a makeshift memorial amassed with flower bouquets, toys and four white wooden crosses.

CNN’s Taylor Galgano, Helen Regan, Emma Tucker, Norma Galeana, Caroll Alvarado, Alisha Ebrahimji, Amanda Jackson, Leigh Waldman, Rebekah Riess, Elise Hammond and Yan Kaner contributed to this report.

俄勒冈州这个社区的学生们周一不会返校上课，他们仍在哀悼在美国最新一起校园枪击案中丧生的三名同学和一名老师，该枪击案的动机仍然不明。

俄勒冈州本德市的官员正在调查一名16岁的前银轨小学学生周四返回母校并在特殊教育教室开枪的动机。警方称，教师梅根·兰伯特以及5岁的罗姆·萨默和另外两名分别为8岁和11岁的学生不幸遇难。

“我们与所有遇难者及其家人和挚爱之人同悲，我们作为一个社区共同哀悼，”本德-拉派恩学区总监史蒂夫·库克在周日发布的一段视频中说道。“我们彼此关爱的责任将远远超出这最初的几天。”

警方称，枪击事件在另一名教师介入制服嫌疑人后停止，随后一名好心人——他看到枪手进入学校并跟踪他——开枪将其击毙。

以下是我们目前对银轨小学枪击案的了解，根据 CNN 对包括枪支暴力档案库在内的多个数据库的分析，这是今年美国 K-12 学校发生的第 36 起枪击案。

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执法人员仍在调查枪手格里芬·J·约翰二世（Griffin J. John II）为何强行闯入他曾经就读的小学，并在一个混合年龄的特殊教育教室开枪扫射。官员表示，他之前曾在银轨小学（Silver Rail Elementary）的特殊教育班就读，但他们无法确认他是否曾在该教室就读。

一位了解案情的执法部门高级官员周五告诉CNN，调查人员周四约谈了枪手的父母，他们配合了警方的调查。该消息人士称，警方还搜查了枪手的住所，并缴获了电脑和其他电子设备。当地调查人员和联邦调查局将努力获取这些设备的访问权限，以寻找与枪击案相关的线索。

本德市警察局长迈克·克兰茨周五表示，枪手使用的是一支 Maverick 88 型泵动式 12 号口径霰弹枪。克兰茨补充说，枪手身上还剩下大约 44 发子弹。

一位了解调查情况的高级执法官员周五告诉 CNN，这把枪是他母亲购买的。

俄勒冈州法律不允许18岁以下的未成年人合法购买霰弹枪，但如果由父母或监护人，或经父母或监护人同意的人将枪支转让给他们，则可以合法持有。根据州法律，他们可以合法地临时持有枪支用于狩猎、射击练习或射击运动。

枪手是锡莱茨印第安部落联盟的注册成员，该组织周日证实了这一消息。

“锡莱茨印第安部落联盟对本德市银轨小学发生的悲剧性生命损失深感痛心，”首席执行官库尔蒂斯·巴克在提供给CNN的一份声明中表示。“我们向失去亲人的家庭致以最深切的慰问，并向受伤人员、经历这场难以想象的悲剧的学生和教职员工以及整个本德社区表达我们的哀悼。”

遇难学生包括5岁的罗姆·萨默，以及另外两名分别为8岁和11岁的学生。本德警察局表示，另外两名遇难儿童的家属要求警方不要公开他们的身份。

罗姆的父亲凯利克·萨默在儿子去世后，在Facebook社区群组中发表了一份声明。

“今天是我人生中最糟糕的一天。我的儿子罗姆在校园枪击案中丧生，”萨默周四晚间写道。“我们心碎欲绝，茫然无措，但幸好有亲朋好友陪伴在身边，保护着我们。”

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25岁的特殊教育教师梅根·兰伯特也在枪击事件中不幸遇难。她的家人在一份由警方发布的声明中表示，在Silver Rail工作是她的“梦想工作”。

兰伯特是俄勒冈州中部人，在本德长大，2019 年毕业于附近的芒廷维尤高中。她的家人在一份声明中表示，她将于 2023 年毕业于爱达荷州的博伊西州立大学。

“梅根富有同情心，心地善良，”她的家人在声明中写道。“她总是为弱势群体和残疾人士争取权益。她是一位了不起的姐姐、女儿、侄女和孙女。她的朋友就像家人一样。她风趣幽默，很有主见，走到哪里都能给周围的人带来欢乐。”

来自本德的 54 岁融合教育助理贝基·德鲁里和 7 岁的塞勒·格雷厄姆在枪击事件中受伤，并被送往当地医院。

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德鲁里伤势严重，但没有生命危险。据德鲁里婆婆在脸书上转发的帖子称，她的丈夫威尔·德鲁里表示，她左臂和右手都有伤口，需要手术治疗。

“大家对我们全家以及所有受影响的人所展现的善意和关心，让我们感激不尽。我们生活在一个非常特别的社区，”威尔·德鲁里在另一份声明中说道。“目前，我们所有的精力都集中在我的妻子贝基身上，希望她能早日康复。”

据本德警方周五表示，赛勒在两起经过核实的 GoFundMe 筹款活动中被确认身份，她在现场接受了救命治疗，随后被送往俄勒冈健康与科学大学，目前情况严重但稳定。

“赛勒就是光明和快乐的化身，”位于本德的非营利组织“麻雀俱乐部”的执行董事马特·桑普森告诉 CNN，该组织为有医疗需求的儿童及其家庭提供经济和情感支持，他还补充说，他认识赛勒已经好几年了。

他说：“她充满决心、韧性和力量的人生故事激励了无数学生和社区里的其他人，包括我们麻雀俱乐部的成员。”

警方称，当枪手翻越围栏进入学校时，一辆红色丰田皮卡的司机上前与他对峙。官员表示，枪手向皮卡开枪，至少击中三枪。随后，司机驾车沿街行驶，并在下午1点前拨打了911报警电话。

警方称，枪手在短短三分钟内强行破开双扇门，并向门上的玻璃开了多枪进入。随后，他径直走向入口左侧的特殊教育教室，并开了多达15枪。

据其母亲和警方称，第二名司机，36岁的凯鲁布·贾曼科（Kaylub Giamanco），当时正在午休，目睹了枪手与皮卡车司机的冲突。贾曼科是该校两名学生的父亲，他当时携带了一把合法持有的40口径手枪。警方表示，他驾车驶入学校停车场，并尾随枪手进入学校。他的母亲肯达·弗里曼（Kenda Freeman）告诉CNN附属电视台KOVR/KMAX，他从枪手射碎的窗户进入了学校。

克兰茨说，在学校里，一名老师把手机扔向枪手，并扑倒他夺走了霰弹枪。

警方称，贾曼科听到枪声，看到老师与枪手发生肢体冲突，于是向嫌疑人连开数枪，将其击毙。

贾曼科是一名有枪支使用经验的承包商，枪击事件发生后，他立即给母亲打了电话，母亲说。

“他说，‘妈妈，我刚刚开枪打死了一个人，’”弗里曼说。

据贾曼科的母亲说，贾曼科说：“一名男子闯入我女儿的学校，枪杀了孩子们。”

弗里曼说：“他说，‘妈妈，我直勾勾地盯着他，然后开枪打死了他。’”

吉亚曼科的两个孩子都幸存了下来，但弗里曼说她的儿子受到了创伤。

弗里曼说：“我告诉他，他救了很多人的命。他说，‘妈妈，我不可能救下所有人。’”

唐纳德·特朗普总统称贾曼科是“一位伟大的英雄”，他“把事情办妥了”。兰伯特的家人表示，他们感谢这位父亲，称他为“英雄”，因为他为了他人而将自己置于危险之中。

据本德-拉派恩学区（包括银轨小学）负责人史蒂文·库克称，目前尚不清楚枪手是如何绕过学校的安全措施的。

学区表示，学校已配备了安全入口门厅、照片身份验证和访客筛查系统、室内外监控摄像头，以及可从内部上锁的升级版教室门锁。其中一些措施，包括门锁系统，已于2022年进行了升级。

库克周五表示，银轨学校大约两周前也进行过一次封锁演习，这是该学区每所学校每年都要进行的两次演习之一。他说，在最近的演习中，有四名学校资源警官（SRO）在场。

枪击事件发生时，负责该校的驻校警官不在学校，而是在附近的一所学校。本德警察局发言人希拉·米勒表示，这名驻校警官负责六七所学校。

五年级教师凯西·希尔·史密斯（Kathy Sheil Smith）讲述了她目睹一名枪手闯入俄勒冈州本德市银轨小学后，如何悄悄地保护惊恐的学生们。警方称，袭击造成三名儿童和一名教师死亡，另有两人重伤。随后，一名社区成员追捕并击毙了这名16岁的枪手。

库克表示，学区将审查其应急响应程序、安全计划以及与枪击事件相关的其他因素。

美国众议员、俄勒冈州民主党人珍妮尔·拜纳姆（Janelle Bynum）周五告诉CNN，该国发生的校园枪击案数量应该促使人们讨论“负责任的枪支拥有权”。

“我们在这所学校投入了资金，确保它安全无虞，”她说。“他们按照预期进行了所有演习——我们之前所说的所有能保护孩子的措施，然而却都失败了。”

学区在最新消息中表示，银轨小学将关闭，直至另行通知。

该学区其他地区的学生将于周三按提前放学时间表返校上课。

库克说，枪击事件发生后，数百人前来接受该地区和当地卫生系统提供的危机咨询。

本德市儿科医生洛根·克劳森博士告诉CNN，枪击案当天，她诊所的停车场挤满了焦急等待亲人消息的家属。她的诊所——中俄勒冈儿科联合诊所——目前正在帮助家长们与孩子谈论他们的经历或在社区中观察到的情况。

她说，沉默对孩子来说可能很可怕，所以家长应该主动与孩子交谈。这包括谈论他们知道的事情、他们的感受，以及温和地纠正不准确的信息。

“你可以谈谈学校正在做什么，你可以谈谈警察正在做什么，你可以谈谈他们可以采取哪些行动来感到更安全，”她说。

艾德娜是银轨博物馆的一位母亲，她有两个孩子。她说，枪击事件发生时，她正开车去接儿子去看医生。几天后，艾德娜（她要求不透露姓氏）打算带儿子去博物馆，但她担心那里也可能发生枪击事件。她周六告诉CNN的尼克·瓦特。

“我该怎么告诉他呢？我真的不知道，”她说。“我甚至不知道这种事会不会再次发生。”

当学区内其他学校的学生即将重返校园时，银轨中学却空无一人。在关闭的校园周围拉起的黄色警戒线附近，哀悼者们摆放着鲜花、玩具和四个白色木制十字架，搭建了一个临时的纪念场所。

美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN) 的泰勒·加尔加诺 (Taylor Galgano)、海伦·里根 (Helen Regan)、艾玛·塔克 (Emma Tucker)、诺玛·加利纳 (Norma Galeana)、卡罗尔·阿尔瓦拉多 (Caroll Alvarado)、艾丽莎·易卜拉欣吉 (Alisha Ebrahimji)、阿曼达·杰克逊 (Amanda Jackson)、利·沃尔德曼 (Leigh Waldman)、丽贝卡·里斯 (Rebekah Riess)、埃莉斯·哈蒙德 (Elise Hammond) 和 Yan Kaner 对本报告做出了贡献。