Mom of child at Bend, Oregon, school recalls hearing about active shooter: “I just started running over”

October 16, 2026 / 11:03 AM EDT / CBS News

Kayla Major was at work Thursday afternoon just steps from her son's elementary school in Bend, Oregon, when her co-worker said she heard gunshots and employees started locking the doors.

"I don't think I even had a first thought," Major told "CBS Mornings" on Friday. "I think I stood up, they were locking the doors, and I kind of was figuring out what was going on and why they were locking the doors, and then I heard 'active shooter' and then I said, 'Where?' and they said, 'the school behind us.'"

"I don't know if my co-workers understood that I had a child that went to school there, and so I kind of fell back into my seat for a second, and then paced for a minute, and I stood up and I unlocked the doors and I just started running over to the school," she said.

Major's son was uninjured, but three students — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and one teacher were killed in the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, police said. A 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were transported to St. Charles Bend Hospital…

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