Draft:Renolds High-School Shooting

Summary

On June 10, 2014, an active shooter situation occurred at the school during morning period. One student, 14-year-old freshman Emilio Hoffman, was killed.

The event

A physical education teacher suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The shooter, 15-year-old Jared Michael Padgett, who was using an AR-15 and also equipped with a Semi-Automatic Pistol and a knife, engaged a responding officer in a gunfight before retreating inside a school bathroom, where he fatally shot himself SWAT and FBI agents secured the school. The students were evacuated and were released to their parents at a nearby Fred Meyer store. The shooting occurred on the second-to-last day of the school year.

During the evacuation, a second gun, which was unrelated to the shooting, was found at the scene and one person, who did not have a permit to carry a concealed firearm, was taken into custody. The individual confessed to bringing the gun to the school to protect his sister, a freshman at the school.

Padgett had planned to pursue a career in the United States Armed Forces. He was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, and his oldest brother served in the military in Afghanistan. Padgett had managed to acquire his weapons from a secured area in the family home.

This was the first fatal school shooting in Oregon since the 1998 Thurston High School shooting, which left two students and the shooter's parents dead and another 25 wounded.

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber attended a community vigil in Troutdale that evening; he called the shooting "a senseless act of violence". President Barack Obama, speaking at a Tumblr-sponsored question-and-answer session the day of the shooting, declared, "We're the only developed country on earth where this happens." Obama further stated that only a massive shift in public opinion could sway Congress to act in favor of greater gun control measures.

The Aftermath

In 2015, a bond resolution was proposed, which would grant the district $125,000,000 to help replace, and renovate several schools in the district, and install security upgrades in every school in the district. A portion of this sum of money was used to remodel the northern portion of the main establishment. This specifically includes remodeled science, functional life-skills, culinary, and early childhood education classrooms, cafeteria area, and kitchen. Relocation of the main office and counseling office by the new and more secure main entry. And all buildings that make up the campus internally connected. Construction was started spring of 2017, and is projected to be complete fall of 2018.

Reynolds High School Shooting.
Location	1698 SW Cherry Park Road Troutdale, (Multnomah County), Oregon 97060 United States
Coordinates	45.52887°N 122.401637°W
Date	June 10th 2014
Target	Students and Staff at Reynolds High School.
Attack type	Mass Shooting, Spree Shooting, School Shooting, Murder-Suicide.
Weapons	AR-15–style rifle, Semi-Automatic Pistol, Knife (Unused)
Deaths	2 Dead, including the Perpetrator, and the 14 year old student Emilio Hoffman.
Injured	1 Injured.
Perpetrator	Jared Michael Padgett
Motive	Inconclusive