Bend-La Pine School District
School district office in Bend, OregonWikipedia
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Oct 20, 2026
Ryan PettyGUEST
In 2021, Oregon passed Senate Bill 554, which let school districts ban guns on school grounds, even for people with a concealed handguns license.
Ryan PettyGUEST
Bend-La Pine School District adopted that ban in December of 2021.
Ryan PettyGUEST
This was all happening when that COVID nonsense was going through and these defund the police and all that stuff was happening.
Ryan PettyGUEST
I, in fact, had testified in Portland, Oregon, against the removal of school resource officers from the schools, but it sounds like everywhere, including Bend, Oregon, which is on the more rational and sane side of Oregon, followed suit with Portland and pulled them.
Brett RechampHOST
Detectives are finishing gathering evidence at Silver Rail Elementary today, but it's unclear when it will reopen.
Brett RechampHOST
But Bend-LaPine School's superintendent, Steve Cook, saying today other students in the district will return later this week.
Steve CookSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Schools and school activities are closed Monday and Tuesday as we care for staff and prepare them to welcome our students back to school on Wednesday.
Brett RechampHOST
Cook thanked the community for rallying around students and staff, providing everything from meals to money to help in the recovery.
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Brett RechampHOST
The Bend School, where three children and a special education teacher were gunned down last week, remains closed.
Brett RechampHOST
Detectives are finishing gathering evidence at Silver Rail Elementary today, but it's unclear when it will reopen.
Brett RechampHOST
But Bend-LaPine School's superintendent, Steve Cook, saying today other students in the district will return later this week.
Brett RechampHOST
Schools and school activities are closed Monday and Tuesday
Mark BaileyHOST
As someone who is in charge of a school district, what goes through your mind?
Bill NewtonGUEST
Yeah, you just feel terrible for the Bend-LaPine School District community.
Bill NewtonGUEST
Yeah, it's just a terrible tragedy.
Bill NewtonGUEST
And, you know, it is my worst nightmare.
Jordan BermanHOST
They're asking anyone who might have security camera footage or cell phone video showing John's movements in the hour before the shooting to turn that over.
Jordan BermanHOST
The Bend-LaPine School District canceled classes across the district on Friday.
Jordan BermanHOST
Students will also be home today and tomorrow, but most students are expected to go back Wednesday on an early release schedule, and then they'll fully return to their normal schedule Thursday and Friday.
Jordan BermanHOST
Silver Rail students, though, they will not be going back to school at least this week.
Woody OvertonHOST
Bend Police, the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office, Redmond Police, Oregon State Police, and federal law enforcement partners evacuate the building room by room.
Woody OvertonHOST
Students and staff were transported on the Bend-La Pine school buses to Journey Church to reunite with their families and guardians.
Woody OvertonHOST
Don't you know those parents were happy to see their kids? That process was still underway at the evening briefing.
Woody OvertonHOST
Now, the FBI's Portland field office said it was assisting local authorities with the investigation.
Brett RechampHOST
Detectives are finishing gathering evidence at Silver Rail Elementary today, but it's unclear when it will reopen.
Brett RechampHOST
But Bend-LaPine School's superintendent, Steve Cook, saying today other students in the district will return later this week.
Steve CookSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Schools and school activities are closed Monday and Tuesday as we care for staff and prepare them to welcome our students back to school on Wednesday.
Brett RechampHOST
Cook thanked the community for rallying around students and staff, providing everything from meals to money to help in the recovery.
Denise QuinnHOST
My heart is with this gentleman.
Hunter NewtonHOST
So I am going to mention I also know people in the Redmond School District, Ben Lapine School District shut down on Friday.
Hunter NewtonHOST
They had no classes, no nothing.
Denise QuinnHOST
Right.
JoelCORRESPONDENT
More calls quickly came from inside the building and officers arrived within minutes.
JoelCORRESPONDENT
the teen was shot and killed by a community member who had followed him into the school authorities now say a father and a teacher stepped in to stop the gunman and they're being credited with preventing even more loss school officials say that the shooting happened in a special needs classroom and that the suspect was once a special needs student himself Classes, sports, and activities were canceled Friday at all 32 schools in Bend-La Pine District.
JoelCORRESPONDENT
Flowers and candles now fill a makeshift memorial outside the school, and neighbors gathered Thursday night for a candlelight vigil at Drake Park.
JoelCORRESPONDENT
Tonight, Bend holds his family's clothes, remembering the young lives and the teacher they lost.
Alan SandersHOST
The program, the NEST program that he was enrolled in, serves kids with intense behavioral and social skills challenges.
Alan SandersHOST
Now understand, as a 16-year-old, he was not enrolled in the Bend-La Pine District program.
Alan SandersHOST
Neighbors have described the kid as a withdrawn loner who rarely went out.
Alan SandersHOST
And when he did, he was usually with his mom.
MadiganHOST
The area is encircled with mountains, and it's a tourism and outdoor recreation hub.
MadiganHOST
The location of this tragedy, like I said, was Silver Rail Elementary School within the Bend-La Pine School District.
MadiganHOST
This school and secondary schools within the Bend-La Pine School District include secure vestibules in each of the buildings where visitors must enter and check in with the office staff, then sign in via an electronic system that verifies that the visitor had passed a background check before entering the building.
MadiganHOST
Whoa, that's intense stuff.
MadiganHOST
Like, when I was in high school between 2005 and 2010 or whatever, metal detectors seemed intense to me, and honestly, surprisingly, my school didn't even have metal detectors, which they probably could have benefited from.
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