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Teacher Megan Lambert among the dead as Bend mourns at Silver Rail Elementary

KTLA 5's report goes to the memorial outside the Oregon school and hears how a father and a second teacher stopped the gunman.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 690,900 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (30,805).

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0:24Nancy Loo reports from outside Silver Rail Elementary, where community members gather at a growing memorial.
0:46Loo describes how the attack unfolded inside a special needs classroom, carried out with a 12-gauge shotgun.
1:13The first victims are identified, including 25-year-old teacher Megan Lambert.
1:48Comfort dogs from Lutheran Church Charities visit children and locals near the memorial.
2:07Father Caleb Giammanco is described as stepping in to stop the shooter; student teacher Kaylee Ahern calls him a hero.
2:48Loo recounts reports that another teacher threw her phone and tackled the gunman.

A growing memorial now stands outside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where three children and a teacher were killed when a gunman opened fire with a shotgun inside a special needs classroom.

Reporting from the school, Nancy Loo names the teacher as 25-year-old Megan Lambert. Her family appears on screen as the report identifies the first of those who died. Nearby, comfort dogs from Lutheran Church Charities move among children and neighbors who have come to leave flowers.

The segment then turns to the people who ended the attack. Caleb Giammanco, a father, stepped in to stop the shooter. Loo also recounts reports that another teacher threw her phone and tackled the gunman before he was stopped.

Kaylee Ahern, a student teacher at the school, speaks about Giammanco. "He's a true hero. Props to him for having the courage to do that and save other lives," she says. Asked how the school is coping, she pauses: "It's very hard. Um, yeah, I don't know the right words to say."

The Los Angeles station's report reached about 666,000 views in under a day, far beyond its usual first day, and the comments arrived around ten times faster than normal. Much of that conversation centers on the two adults who intervened.

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