Bend Teacher Clarifies Shooting Account as Investigators Probe Extremist Links
Becky Drury, a teacher wounded in the October 15 Silver Rail Elementary shooting, released a statement correcting earlier reports that she shielded a student. She stated she was shot at close range before she could act and subsequently played dead to survive. While Drury’s account clarifies the sequence of events, federal and state investigators are probing links between the 16-year-old shooter, Griffin J. John II, and online extremist groups, specifically the '764' network. The attack killed four people, including the youngest victim ever in a U.S. school shooting, and remains the 36th school shooting in the U.S. this year.
