Bend Grieves After Mass Shooting: 'Who Would Do This to Little Kids?'

Oregon community mourns victims of school shooting

Mourners quietly grieved at a makeshift memorial outside an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.

Bend grieves after mass shooting: 'Who would do this to little kids?'

But their world was shattered this week when a 16-year-old entered the school and opened fire, shooting dead three children and a teacher, and leaving another child and educator critically wounded. An armed bystander who pursued the gunman into the school shot and killed him. The tragic events, Vanetsky told AFP Friday morning outside the school, are "unthinkable." The 52-year-old, whose 10-year-old grandson attends the school, said the mass sho…

A community grieves after a deadly school shooting in Oregon

The community in Bend, Ore., is reeling after a shooter killed three children and a teacher at an elementary school Thursday.

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People pay their respects at Silver Rail Elementary School a day after a shooting at the school in Bend, Oregon, on October 16, 2026.

Oregon to Lower Flags Friday as State Mourns Victims of Deadly Bend School Shooting

SALEM, Ore. (Oct. 26, 2026) — Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has ordered flags at all public institutions across the state to be flown at half-staff Friday, Oct. 16, in remembrance of the victims killed in Thursday’s shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend. The order directs flags to remain at half-staff from sunrise to…