A gunman opened fire on a special education classroom at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 15, killing three students and a teacher before a bystander fatally shot him. The attack has devastated the city and drawn urgent attention to the systemic failures and funding shortages in special education that, parents and educators say, may have contributed to the violence.
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Bend, Oregon
City in Oregon, United States
A female teacher in Bend, Oregon, tackled a 16-year-old gunman who entered her classroom and tried to wrestle the weapon from him, police have said, before the suspect was shot dead by a father of two students who ran into the school. The attack at Silver Rail Elementary School on Thursday left three children and a teacher dead, with two others injured.