Isophoric News · Thursday, October 22, 2026
Wounded Oregon teacher says she never had a chance to shield children and asks that reports be corrected
Becky Drury, a teacher wounded in last week's attack on a special education classroom at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, said in a statement issued Wednesday by a family friend that she "did the only thing I could do, which was to pretend to be dead in the hope he would not shoot me again," the Associated Press reported. Drury said she ran to see what was happening, saw the shooter and went back to the classroom, but he was already there and shot her at close range, wounding her left hand and right arm. Some news reports had suggested she threw herself on top of a student to protect them, and she said she wanted to correct the record, the AP reported. Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher were killed in the attack, according to the AP, and Drury remains hospitalized.