5 people believed dead following shooting at Oregon elementary school, 2 officials tell AP

Authorities judge astatine slightest 5 radical are dormant pursuing a shooting astatine an simple schoolhouse successful Bend, Oregon, according to 2 instrumentality enforcement officials with cognition of the case.

The officials spoke to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to sermon it publicly. Both said the decease toll was preliminary and could change.

The suspected shooter was 15 oregon 16 years old, 1 of the sources said.

Bend constabulary spokesperson Sheila Miller earlier confirmed the fishy is dead. It wasn’t wide if the fishy was included among the five.

Miller besides said aggregate victims were children.

“We don’t person a fig astatine this point. We cognize children are among the victims,” Miller said during a media briefing.

Authorities received a telephone astir a changeable fired into a car extracurricular Silver Rail Elementary astatine 12:59 p.m. and arrived connected country wrong minutes. Further 911 calls came from wrong the school, she said.

The attacker was changeable and went down wrong the schoolhouse soon aft constabulary arrived, Miller said.

It was not instantly wide if it was by police, a bystander oregon self-inflicted.

Miller said 2 radical were transported to St. Charles Bend infirmary pursuing the shooting, and their conditions were not instantly known. A spokesperson for the infirmary did not instantly instrumentality a petition for remark from the AP.

Silver Rail Elementary was nether lockdown, the Bend-La Pine schoolhouse territory wrote connected Facebook.

“We’re successful the process astatine this clip of going country by country and evacuating each of the radical who are successful that school. ... This is the benignant of happening we ne'er privation to spot hap successful Bend. It’s devastating,” Miller said, pausing to power her emotions.

The schoolhouse successful Bend, Oregon, which is much than 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Portland, had 459 enrolled students arsenic of past year, according to the Oregon Department of Education. The schoolhouse serves students successful kindergarten done 5th grade.