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Staffer who tackled Oregon school shooter speaks out: 'It all happened so fast'

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An elementary school staffer who helped thwart the gunman in an Oregon school shooting earlier this month spoke out for the first time on Friday.

Cassidy Schutz, a learning specialist at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, was the educator who threw her phone at the shooter and tackled him, before he was fatally shot by a parent who followed the gunman into the school, her school district confirmed.

"It all happened so fast, and I wish with everything in me that we had more time," Schutz said in a statement released by Bend-La Pine Schools. "The pain of this loss I will carry with me forever."

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