Teacher in Oregon shooting said she pretended to be dead to survive

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A 54-year-old teacher who survived a mass shooting at an Oregon elementary school said she pretended to be dead so the gunman would not shoot her again.

Becky Drury, a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School, said in a statement shared with US media that as she tried to shut her classroom door, the gunman shot her and she fell to the floor.

"I did the only thing I could do, which was to pretend to be dead in the hope he would not shoot me again," Drury said.

The attacker - who has been identified as a 16-year-old former student at the school - killed three students and a teacher before a parent from the school fatally shot him.

In her first remarks since the 15 October shooting in Bend, Oregon, Drury said that she went to see what was happening outside the special-education classroom, and after spotting the shooter, she tried to shut the door.

The attacker still managed to shoot her, so she could not help any of the children in the classroom.

Source: BBC News World RSS (Open Press / Translated Full Text)