Oregon Police Credit Three Interveners After a School Attack Killed Three Children and a Teacher

Police in the US state of Oregon have praised the actions of three people who cut short a deadly shooting at a school, Deutsche Welle reports. Three children and a teacher were killed in the attack, which was carried out by a former pupil. PBS NewsHour describes the attack as a deadly elementary school shooting in Bend, Oregon, and reports that many questions about it remain to be answered.

The police account puts the emphasis on the three who intervened, crediting them with shortening an attack that had already killed four people. Naming what bystanders did is one way a community's account of a school shooting gets written, and it is the part of this one that is most clearly established.