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Teacher in Oregon shooting said she pretended to be dead to survive
BBC • • nation
Key Points:
- Becky Drury, a 54-year-old teacher at Silver Rail Elementary in Oregon, survived a mass shooting by pretending to be dead after being shot while trying to close her classroom door.
- The gunman, identified as 16-year-old former student Griffin J John II, killed three students and a teacher before being fatally shot by a parent who intervened.
- Drury sustained serious injuries, including a nearly severed left hand, and was unable to protect or assist her students during the attack.
- Another teacher attempted to disarm the shooter by throwing her phone but was unharmed, and reports of a teacher shielding a student were clarified by Drury, who stated she was shot before she could act.
- Authorities have not disclosed a motive for the shooting; the suspect was a special-education student at the school.
