Crime & Justice
Teacher wounded in Oregon shooting says she played dead to survive
October 22, 2026 at 02:57 PM
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Wounded teacher Becky Drury said she pretended to be dead after the gunman shot her before she could protect her students in the 15 October attack.
- Drury said in a statement that the shooter shot her as she tried to shut her classroom door at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend.
- The 16-year-old former student Griffin J. John II killed three students and a teacher before a parent fatally shot him.
- Drury said she was shot before she had any chance to act, correcting reports that she shielded a student.
- Police confirmed the pump-action shotgun used in the attack had been legally purchased.

