Bend Teacher Who Fought Shooter Speaks Out

Cassidy Schutz confronted a 16-year-old gunman during the Oct. 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon. She threw her cellphone at the attacker, tackled him and fought for his gun. A parent then fatally shot the gunman. The attack killed three students and a teacher and wounded two others. Schutz has since issued her first public statement about the attack. The record contains no verbatim quotes from her and gives no further detail of what she said. No factual dispute was found among the sources on the sequence of the confrontation, the parent's fatal shot, or the casualty figures. Rated coverage in the record runs eight left, three center, and zero right. What comes next for Schutz and the school is not specified in the available record.