>>As the afternoon wore on and news broke of Hoffman's death, students took to social media to mourn the loss.
Posted on 06/10/2014 8:54:02 AM PDT by aimhigh
There were multiple reports of an active shooter around 8:30 a.m. at a high school in Troutdale, Oregon.
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No, it seems that there were one or two students who happened to be armed with pistols, probably everyday carry pieces, and they fled because they did not want to get busted carrying pistols. Add some furtive eyewitness accounts, LEO radio traffic, eager reporters, a wanna-be historian compiling a wikipedia page, and you get what Clausewitz called the “fog of war.”
“Is the “—rouge gubmint agency “ the guys who show up wearing fishnet panty hose, feather boas, and high heels?”
I am still laughing at that one and will laugh every time I think about it! Thank you!
ROFL
2 more weeks here...due to Snowy winter
not sure if accurate but shooter said to be male teen who then shot himself...last I heard no IDs released of him or victim due to notif. of next of kin
Aanother update:
TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) — A lone gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a student Tuesday and injured a teacher shortly after classes started at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon and was later found dead as police arrived, authorities said.
Authorities have tentatively identified the gunman but weren’t ready to release the name, Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson said.
Student, Gunman Dead in Oregon School Shooting
Student, Gunman Dead in Oregon School Shooting
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They were in the process of notifying the family of the gunman and student who was killed.
Anderson said the teacher suffered non-life threatening injuries and was treated at the scene.
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During the evacuation, another unrelated gun was found and one person was taken into custody.
The attack panicked students at Reynolds High School in Troutdale after a lockdown was ordered and they were told to quietly go to their classrooms.
Freshman Morgan Rose, 15, said she hunkered down in a locker room with another student and two teachers.
“It was scary in the moment. Now knowing everything’s OK I’m better,” she said.
Freshman Daniel DeLong, 15, said after the shooting that he saw a physical education teacher at the school with a bloodied shirt. He said he was texting friends to make sure they were all OK.
“It just, like, happened so fast, you know?” he said.
Anderson said he was sorry for the family of the slain student. Police did not say how the gunman died.
“Today is a very tragic day for the city of Troutdale,” the chief said.
Gov. John Kitzhaber added in a statement: “Oregon hurts as we try to make sense of a senseless act of violence.”
The first reports of shots fired came at 8 a.m. on the next-to-last-day of classes. Police initially seemed uncertain about whether there was a live shooter in the school.
Students were eventually led from the school with hands on their heads. Parents and students were reunited in a supermarket parking lot.
Mandy Johnson said her daughter called from a friend’s phone.
“I thank God that she’s safe,” said Johnson, who has three younger children. “I don’t want to send my kids to school anymore.”
Paul Csea was in the school cafeteria with friends when they were told the school was going into lockdown, The Oregonian reported.
“We thought it was fake because we never heard of anything like this, “ Csea said. “Everyone thought it was a joke.”
Shots fired at Oregon high school
Shots fired at Oregon high school
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He said he heard screaming, and he and others were led to a secure counselor’s office to wait out the lockdown.
The Oregon violence came less than a week after a gunman opened fire on a college campus in neighboring Washington state, killing a 19-year-old man and wounding two others. It follows a string of mass shootings that have disturbed the nation, including one on Sunday in Nevada that left two Las Vegas police officers and a civilian dead.
The Tuesday shooting was the first fatal school shooting in Oregon since May 1998 when 15-yeatr-old Kip Kinkel killed two students and wounded 25 others at Thurston High School in Springfield near Eugene. He killed his parents prior to the attack and is serving a 111-year prison sentence.
Reynolds is the second-largest high school in Oregon, with about 2,800 students. Its students come from several communities.
When will there be calls for tough new nut control laws?
update from Oregonian:
>> 4:40 pm PT (7:40 ET)
“Victim identified as Reynolds High freshman Emilio Hoffman”
4:35 p.m.: Family friend identifies Reynolds High School freshman Emilio Hoffman as one of the dead in Tuesday’s shooting.
3:52 p.m.: “Law enforcement plans 5 p.m. PT news conference”
You’re right...
I may be in left field in regards to speculation, but I’m just putting this out there:
I was suspicious with the first reports, more so when it was later revealed the shooter off’d himself. Even more so when the victim was revealed a male freshman.
I’m just going to predict that the gun-control rhetoric is suddenly going to get tamped down, the rush of opinions suddenly gone silent...once it is revealed that the 2 males were ‘more than friends’...products of confused youth and our public education system intent on teaching children at very young ages the aspects of unnatural relationships. I also won’t be surprised that the gunman is revealed to have been on some sort of medication...anti-depressants or otherwise.
We shall see...if I’m wrong, so be it. But this stinks.
Bingo!
Whoops! Wrong story. Sorry, too many to keep up with.
The long delay in identifying the shooter makes me suspicious. It happened yesterday. They have had lots of time to ID the guy, notify relatives, search his home, etc. But no name yet.
They have to scrub all the liberal posts from his Facebook page before the press release.
“They have to scrub all the liberal posts from his Facebook page before the press release.”
Like the pajama boy posts (whatever crap they’re called) to healthcare.gov? Coffee cup, red plaid and all.
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