
据警方周五透露,一名教师将手机扔向在俄勒冈州一所初中枪杀四人的青少年枪手,随后扑上去与其搏斗——这一举动很可能挽救了其他人的生命。后来,一名跟随枪手进入学校的父亲将其击毙。
A teacher threw her phone at the teenage gunman who killed four people at an Oregon junior school, then tackled and fought with him – probably saving lives before he was shot by a father who followed him into the building, police said Friday.
在本周的新闻发布会上,本德市警察局长迈克·克兰茨称这位教师的行为“堪称英勇”,并称她并未受伤。他确认袭击者为16岁的格里芬·J·约翰二世,并称所有遇难者都是在同一间教室内中枪的。
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz called the teacher’s actions “heroic” during a news conference and said she was not injured. He identified the attacker as 16-year-old Griffin J. John II and said all of the victims were shot in the same classroom.
据警方介绍,约翰此前是该校的一名特殊需求学生,此次他针对的正是一个专门接收特殊需求学生的班级。克兰茨称,约翰使用一把12号口径霰弹枪连开了多达15枪,被击毙时枪内还剩约44发子弹。
Authorities said John had been a special needs student at the school and had attacked a classroom with special needs students. He fired as many as 15 shots from a 12-gauge shotgun and had about 44 rounds remaining when he was killed, Krantz said.
“包括我们在内,所有人都想知道他为何这么做,”克兰茨说道,“我们或许永远无法得到完整的答案,但我们渴望知晓真相。”他还补充称,警方仍在调查这名枪手是如何获得枪支的。
“Everyone wants to know why, including us,” he said. “We may never get that full answer, but we want it.”The police chief added that police are also still trying to determine how the shooter obtained the gun.
据《纽约时报》与CNN报道,枪手的母亲肖泰·尼克森在学校附近的公寓外对记者表示,如果自己能采取任何措施阻止这场枪击案,她一定会这么做。
The attacker’s mother, Shauntai Nickerson, told reporters outside her apartment near the school that if she could have done something to prevent the shooting, she would have.
“我好想我的儿子,”尼克森边哭边说,“真的非常抱歉,真希望我能做点什么。为他们的离世,我深感痛心。”当其他媒体随后敲响她的公寓门时,她拒绝透露这名16岁的少年是如何得到那把泵动式霰弹枪的,也未作进一步回应。
“I miss my boy,” Nickerson said, sobbing and crying, according to The New York Times and CNN. “I’m so sorry, I wish I could have done something. I’m sorry for their loss.”She declined to say how the 16-year-old obtained the pump-action shotgun and did not comment further when other outlets knocked on her apartment door later.
在2020年接受当地新闻频道KTVZ采访时,尼克森曾提到当时10岁的儿子参与了由学区开办的一项特殊需求项目。
In a 2020 interview with the local news station KTVZ, Nickerson identified the boy, then 10, as a participant in a special needs programme run by the school district.
该项目名为“Nest”,意为“培育同理心、安全感与信任”,旨在帮助那些在行为表现与社交技能方面存在严重困难的学生。尼克森称,疫情期间,儿子在家学习时遇到了不少困难。
It was called Nest, for Nurturing Empathy, Safety and Trust, and aimed at helping students experiencing intensive behavioural and social skill challenges. Nickerson said he struggled trying to learn from home during the pandemic.
在周五向记者宣读的声明中,肯达·弗里曼说,她的儿子凯拉布·吉亚曼科在周四本德市银轨小学的袭击事件中开枪击中了枪手。她说他是该校两名女生的父亲。
In a statement read to reporters Friday, Kenda Freeman said her son, Kaylub Giamanco, shot the gunman in Thursday’s attack at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend. She said he is the father of two girls at the school.
“他并不寻求认可,而是希望向第一响应者、学校工作人员和社区表达感激之情,感谢他们倾注的爱与支持,”弗里曼说,并指出她的儿子是本德市的终身居民,本德市是俄勒冈州中部被群山环绕、人口约10万的城市。
“He is not seeking recognition, but instead wishes to express his gratitude to the first responders, school personnel and community for the outpouring of love and support,” Freeman said, noting that her son is a lifelong resident of Bend, a mountain-ringed city of about 100,000 in central Oregon.
她说她的家人在此艰难时刻要求隐私。最小的受害者只有五岁,他的姑妈周五说,他是个跑得快、胆子大、爱爬树、爱读书和玩毛绒玩具的孩子。
She said her family was asking for privacy “during this difficult time.”The youngest victim, just five years old, was a fast runner and fearless climber who loved reading and his stuffed animals, his aunt said on Friday.
“他从未遇到过他认为不需要被救援和照顾的毛绒玩具,”他的姑妈斯旺·谢里丹说,她形容他“是从出生起就充满活力的小家伙”。
“He never met a stuffie that he didn’t think needed to be rescued and cared for,” said his aunt, Swan Sheridan, who described him as “a little ball of energy from the moment he was born”.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周五称赞了一位“伟大的英雄”的行动,他说这位英雄“处理了事情”。
US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the actions of a “great hero” who he said “took care of business”.
“这是件可怕的事,但幸好有个男人有枪并且知道怎么用它,”特朗普在白宫对记者说,并补充说这场悲剧本来可能会更糟。
“It’s a terrible thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and knew how to use it,” Trump told reporters at the White House, adding the tragedy would probably have been much worse.
在周四袭击事件发生几小时后的新闻发布会上,州长蒂娜·科特克——未点名吉亚曼科——表示他跟随枪手进入学校,并在警察开始到达时帮助制止了暴行。
At a news conference hours after Thursday’s attack, Governor Tina Kotek – without naming Giamanco – said he had followed the gunman into the school and helped end the rampage as police began arriving.
“你的行为承载着沉重的情感负担,我想让你知道,我的思绪也与你同在,”科特克说。
“Your actions carry a heavy emotional burden, and I just want you to know that my thoughts are with you as well,” Kotek said.
带有鲜花、气球和毛绒玩具的纪念物在学校周围冒了出来,学校坐落在一个住宅密集的社区,那里有许多新建的住宅。
Memorials with flowers, balloons and stuffed animals popped up around the school, which sits in a densely packed neighbourhood filled with newly built homes.
布鲁克·奥尔森说,她女儿是银轨小学的幼儿园学生,她对有人追击枪手感到惊讶。
Brooke Olsen, whose daughter is a kindergartener at Silver Rail, said she was amazed that someone pursued the shooter.
“我认为有人在执法部门到达之前就已经在场,阻止了更大的悲剧发生,这真是个奇迹,”奥尔森周五说,时而哽咽。“我感到非常感激。”警长克兰茨说,枪手在首次求救电话后几分钟内被发现死在校园内。警方称,他通过射击锁上的门进入校园。
“I think it’s miraculous that someone was there before law enforcement even arrived to stop further tragedy from happening,” Olsen said Friday, weeping at times. “I’m feeling very grateful.”The shooter was found dead in the school minutes after the first calls for help, Police Chief Krantz said. He shot through locked doors to get inside, police said.
克兰茨说,遇难儿童的年龄分别是五岁、八岁和十一岁。另一名七岁儿童和一名54岁的教师受伤,被送往医院,情况危急,他周四这样说。
The children who were killed were ages five, eight and 11, Krantz said. Another seven-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were wounded and were taken to a hospital in critical condition, he said Thursday.
受伤的教师被家人确认是贝基·德鲁里。她的婆婆伊冯·德鲁里在社交媒体上表示,她左臂和右手受伤,正在手术后恢复。
The wounded teacher was identified by family as Becky Drury. Her mother-in-law, Yvonne Drury, said on social media that she had injuries to her left arm and right hand and was recovering from surgery.
根据一位了解枪击事件的执法官员的说法,攻击者使用的是其母亲购买的泵动式霰弹枪。该官员要求匿名,因为他们未获授权公开讨论调查。
The attacker used a pump-action shotgun bought by his mother, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the shooting. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to publicly discuss the investigation.
根据俄勒冈州法律,未成年人如果由父母提供或由他人在父母同意的情况下提供,可以持有霰弹枪。
Under Oregon law, a minor may possess a shotgun if provided by a parent or by someone else with the parent’s consent.
警长克兰茨说,第一通求救电话是在下午早些时候从校园外打来的,有人报告称被一名持长枪的人开枪射击。警方发言人希拉·米勒说,随后又有多通求救电话从校园内打来。米勒说,攻击者在警官到达不久后被击中并倒在校园内。
The first emergency call came early in the afternoon from someone outside the school who reported being shot at by someone with a long gun, the police chief said. More emergency calls came from inside the school, police spokeswoman Sheila Miller said. The attacker was shot and went down inside the school shortly after officers arrived, she said.
根据俄勒冈州教育部门的数据,这所学校有从幼儿园到五年级的学生,去年注册人数约为450人。
The school has students in kindergarten through fifth grade, with about 450 enrolled last year, according to the Oregon Department of Education.
由于本德市旅游和户外休闲中心的人口激增,位于波特兰东南约200公里(125英里)处的本德市所有学校在周五取消了课程和所有其他活动。
Classes and all other activities were cancelled on Friday for schools across Bend, a tourism and outdoor recreation hub that has ballooned in population and sits about 200km (125 miles) southeast of Portland.
根据美联社与《今日美国》合作并与东北大学共同维护的数据库,此次枪击事件是今年美国发生的第28起大规模杀人事件。
The shooting was the 28th mass killing in the US this year, according to a database maintained by Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.