Horrific Daytime Tragedy: 3 Elementary Students and Teacher Killed in 16-Year-Old's Shooting Spree

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A shooting at an elementary school in the United States has left three children and a teacher dead. The shooter, a 16-year-old youth, was killed after being shot by a local resident.

Reporter Kim Minpyo has the details.

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Police and emergency responders rushed to a rural elementary school.

At around 1:00 p.m. local time on the 15th, while classes were in full swing, multiple reports of a mass shooting were received at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, U.S.

[911 Dispatch Radio: We are receiving reports of an active shooter. The condition of the patients is uncertain, and police are en route.]

The gunman shot open a locked front school door, barged into a classroom, and opened fire indiscriminately, killing three children aged 5, 8, and 11 who were in class, along with one teacher.

Another 7-year-old child and a teacher in their 50s sustained critical injuries.

[Cathy Schiel-Smith / Teacher, Silver Rail Elementary School: The children were so terrified, and it was really hard to see their faces. I tried in every way to calm the kids down.]

A local resident who witnessed the shooter firing at parked vehicles and entering the school shot and killed the gunman before police arrived.

[Mike Krantz / Police Chief, Bend, Oregon, U.S.: Responding officers reported that a citizen who witnessed the suspect entering the school pursued him into the building and shot him.]

The deceased gunman was identified as a 16-year-old teenager living near the school.

How the underage perpetrator acquired the firearm and the motive for the crime remain unknown.

Bend, a small city with a population of about 100,000, has been plunged into deep grief over the horrific tragedy.

[Melanie Kibler / Mayor of Bend, Oregon, U.S.: There really are no words for the loss that we are suffering today.]

CNN reported that this is the 52nd gun-related incident at U.S. elementary, middle, high schools, and universities this year, leaving a total of 32 dead and 50 injured.

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