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Teacher in Oregon shooting said she pretended to be dead to survive

A 54-year-old teacher who survived a mass shooting at an Oregon elementary school said she pretended to be dead so the gunman would not shoot her again.

Becky Drury, a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School, said in a statement shared with US media that as she tried to shut her classroom door, the gunman shot her and she fell to the floor.

"I did the only thing I could do, which was to pretend to be dead in the hope he would not shoot me again," Drury said.

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