Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said in a press conference that the children killed at Silver Rail Elementary School were aged 5, 8, and 11. Also, a 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were transported to St. Charles Bend hospital with critical injuries.
Police did not speculate on the shooter’s motive and said they did not know whether the suspect knew anybody in the school or if he had attended.
A vigil was held Thursday evening in the wake of the shooting.
Community members grieve during a candlelight vigil at Drake Park in Bend, Ore., on Oct. 15, 2026. —Mathieu Lewis-Rolland—Getty ImagesOregon Gov. Tina Kotek said at the same conference that her heart was “absolutely broken” over the incident: “No parent should have to have this kind of day, and no community should have to live through this kind of day.” She also thanked the community member who pursued the shooter.
Krantz said that at 12:59 p.m., police received a 911 call from a person in a vehicle who reported being shot at multiple times by someone “with a long gun.”
Krantz said police directed the school to go into lockdown at 1:01 p.m. and first responding officers arrived a minute later. Upon entering the school building, Krantz said, officers confirmed that the suspect was dead and found the four other people who died from their injuries, and their families have been notified.
How are politicians reacting?
Oregon’s Republican candidate for governor, state senator Christine Drazan, posted on social media that her heart was with the affected families, students, and teaching staff. “We have to commit to protecting our kids,” she added. “We have to put a complete stop to shootings at our schools. This has to end.”
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D, Ore.) lamented in a statement that the victims in Silver Rail Elementary School and their loved ones faced the “awful consequences” of another school shooting in the country. He added that the “best way to honor” them is to “at long last pass common-sense gun laws that reduce the risks of more children, parents, teachers and staff forced to live in fear of similar nightmares for their schools.”
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