A seriously wounded teacher, Becky Drury, is recounting her experience of last week’s shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Across the coverage, she says she was shot during the attack by 16-year-old gunman Griffin John, who killed three children and another teacher.
Several outlets report Drury’s description of what she did during the moments before she was hit, including trying to close a door as the shooter was already inside. Other accounts emphasize that she says she survived by pretending to be dead after being shot. She also disputes an earlier description of her actions as “heroic,” maintaining that she was shot before she could act or shield a student.
The differences between outlets mainly relate to the emphasis on her stated tactics for survival versus her dispute over how she portrayed her role, with some headlines foregrounding the “playing dead” detail and others leading with her claim about being shot before any protective action.
