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

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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 student at the school armed with a shotgun, broke in and headed toward a special education classroom. He shot six people, killing Megan…

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