After the unimaginable happens, an Oregon town mourns: ‘You can’t stop thinking about the kids’ - The Guardian
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For three long hours on Thursday afternoon, Joe Camarlinghi waited at a Bend, Oregon, church for word about his daughter. Camarlinghi had received an alert about a shooting at Silver Rail elementary, heard sirens and quickly headed to campus, where he was directed to the church along with other parents. Parents and teachers cried and hugged, and waited. “The gravity of that room was like nothing else I’ve ever felt before,” he said while standing not far from a memorial outside the school on Friday. “Every parent [there was] in the same boat of, is my child OK, and not knowing for hours.”Camarlinghi and his wife soon had a tearful reunion with their third grade daughter. Other parents would not. On Thursday afternoon, Griffin J John II, a 16-year-old former Silver Rail student, climbed over a school fence, fired a gun through a set of locked doors and headed toward a special education classroom. He shot six people, killing a teacher and three children, before a parent fatally shot him, according to police. The students killed were aged five, eight and 11, and were all in the same classroom.
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