Oregon teacher fought school attacker before armed dad killed suspect– www.bbc.co.uk

An Oregon teacher threw her mobile phone before she tackled and attempted to disarm a teenager who opened fire on a special educational needs class.

As she tried to wrestle a shotgun off him on the floor of the classroom – where three children and a teacher were killed – a bystander armed with a pistol ran inside and killed the teen.

The bystander, a father of two girls at the school, had been driving past Silver Rail Elementary in Bend at lunchtime on Thursday when he saw the suspect firing in the school’s car park and then shooting through a window to enter.

Police said the 16-year-old suspected attacker used to be a student at the school.

Police say he had been armed with about 44 more rounds of shotgun ammunition when he was stopped. He fired as many as 15 rounds in the class.

“To the people who showed courage in the face of such violence and intervened to prevent this tragedy from being any worse, we owe you a debt of gratitude,” Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said.