Gun violence

A 16-year-old opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, October 15, killing three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher, police said, the Associated Press reports. A 7-year-old student and a 54-year-old teacher were critically injured. A community member shot and killed the attacker, police said.

The Bend-La Pine school district closed its schools for several days, and Gov. Tina Kotek spoke at a vigil that night in Drake Park. Police said the motive remained unclear. The state's emergency management office and local groups organized counseling for students and families.

A 45-year-old man shot and killed eight people, including a 1-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy and a pregnant woman, at and outside a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday evening, October 9, then apparently shot himself, police said, Reuters reports. The victims also included three other women and two young men; police said the man was related to seven of the eight. Officers arriving on 911 calls found two women dead outside the home.

Police Chief Rick Lorah declined to discuss a motive and said investigators would talk with other relatives and examine the victims' phones. Police described it as a domestic-related shooting. News Unc does not name or show images of people accused of mass shootings unless it is needed to understand the story.

Gunfire at an unpermitted homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, killed two men and injured 35 people early Sunday, October 4, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. More than 1,000 people had gathered near the Dooly County Recreation Department gym when shots were fired around 1:25 a.m. in at least two places about a block apart, Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy said. Some of the injured were shot and others were hit by cars as people fled; victims ranged in age from 14 to 51.

The sheriff identified those killed as Jaquevion Jackson, 21, of Cordele and Macaleb Jackson, 23, of Hawkinsville. No arrests had been announced, and the GBI asked anyone with information to submit tips at gbi.georgia.gov. The school superintendent said the party was not a school event.

A gunman killed three people and wounded seven others in a shooting that began in the drive-through of an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, August 1, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said, CBS News reports. Those killed were Ashley Garibay, 23, of Stockton, California; Dale Schultz, 66, of Salt Lake City; and Christopher Claunch, 59, of Hagerman, Idaho.

A bystander who had trained with firearms returned fire during the attack. Police released security video as they investigated, and the motive remained under investigation. News Unc does not name or show images of people accused of mass shootings unless it is needed to understand the story.