Police seek answers after children killed in Oregon school shooting

Bystander shot teenage attacker dead after pursuit, police chief says CBS News, citing officials, reports attacker used shotgun bought by mother Oct 16 (Reuters) — Police in Bend, Oregon, were investigating on Friday why a 16-year-old boy shot dead three children and a teacher at the Silver Rail Elementary School, and how he got hold of the long gun used in his attack. The latest deadly school shooting in the United States unfolded on Thursday afternoonwhen the teenager, who has not been publicly identified, shot through a locked door at the school in central Oregon, according to the Bend Police Department. The teenager killed three children aged 5, 8 and 11 and one teacher before he himself was shot dead by an armed bystander who had pursued him into the school, Police Chief Mike Krantz said at a Thursday evening press conference. Such shootings have become common in the US, with each one reviving debates over gun laws in a country where a right to "keep and bear Arms" is protected under the Constitution's Second Amendment. Bystander Intervened The bystander has not been publicly identified by police, though recordings of 911 emergency calls released by authorities include a dispa