Teacher wounded in Oregon school shooting played dead after she was shot

Becky Drury says she was hit by gunfire before she could intervene in attack that killed four, including three children A teacher wounded in last week’s shooting at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school shared her account of the incident, and how she was shot before she could intervene and “[pretended] to be dead”. Becky Drury was seriously wounded at Silver Rail elementary when Griffin J John II, a 16-year-old former s…

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Becky Drury, a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School, said her left hand was "almost completely severed" and her right arm was "severely injured."

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Teacher injured in elementary school shooting says she played dead after being shot

Becky Drury, a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School, said her left hand was "almost completely severed" and her right arm was "severely injured."

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