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« Last post by SVPete on October 17, 2026, 02:24:50 PM »Oregon school shooter identified, used shotgun bought by mother, sources say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-school-shooter-identified-silver-rail-elementary/
Someone with actual knowledge is free to set me straight, but except at crazy-close range, I don't think "birdshot" would be fatal. Unless killer-scum just grabbed shells randomly, choosing birdshot sounds like infliction of pain was intended.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oregon-school-shooter-identified-silver-rail-elementary/
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The attacker used a shotgun purchased by his mother, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said Friday that a Maverick 88 pump-action 12-gauge shotgun was located near the suspect, as well as a backpack. Krantz said that three types of ammunition were used in the shooting: birdshot, buckshot and slugs.
The suspect fired as many as 15 rounds, Krantz said Friday, and another 44 remaining rounds of ammunition were located at the scene.
A motive for the attack has not been provided. Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook said in Friday's news conference that the classroom where the shooting occurred was a special needs classroom, and he disclosed that the suspect had been a special needs student at that school.
In 2020, the suspect's mother, Shauntai Nickerson, spoke to a local television station about her then-10-year-old son, who she said had special needs and struggled to learn from home during the pandemic. She told KTVZ, "It'll be great for my son to get back in there and get the help that he needs with the skilled teachers that he needs to get it from."
Krantz said the suspect approached the fence of the school on foot, threw the shotgun over the fence, and then climbed it himself.
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Krantz said that the suspect forced his way into the school by firing several rounds into the glass panes of a set of double doors. He then went directly into the classroom immediately to the left of those doors, where he opened fire.
"All of the victims were shot in that classroom," Krantz said.
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Krantz also praised the "heroic actions" of a teacher who engaged the suspect in the physical struggle, saying she "threw her cellphone at the suspect and then tackled him and fought to take the firearm from him."
That teacher, who was not hurt, "almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed," Krantz said.
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Two other victims were seriously wounded in the attack — a 7-year-old girl and a 54-year-old teacher. The child was being treated at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where she was in serious but stable condition, Krantz said Friday. The teacher, identified to CBS News by her family as Becky Drury, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, Krantz said. She was being treated at St. Charles Medical Center.
Someone with actual knowledge is free to set me straight, but except at crazy-close range, I don't think "birdshot" would be fatal. Unless killer-scum just grabbed shells randomly, choosing birdshot sounds like infliction of pain was intended.
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