Video taking off 22x its usual first day

Silver Rail Elementary shooting: Kotek thanks the bystander who stopped it

LiveNOW from FOX's short report from Bend, Oregon, follows the police account of an attack that killed three children and a teacher.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 620,623 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (28,056).

Children killed in Oregon mass shooting identified, shooter killed by bystander

A typical Short on LiveNOW from FOX draws a few tens of thousands of views on its first day. This report from Bend, Oregon, passed 480,000 in 14 hours.

It covers the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, where, according to police, a 16-year-old armed with a long gun killed three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher. A 7-year-old and another teacher were injured and taken to a hospital. The gunman was shot and killed by a member of the community.

Anchor Josh Breslow opens over footage of the school behind police tape, then hands over to Fox News reporter Amalia Roy in Bend. Roy walks through the timeline of the 911 calls and the bystander's intervention, and notes that the weapon was a shotgun and that the shooter's motive was not yet clear.

Between her reports come two voices from the briefings. An official says, "We are heartbroken. We are horrified." Governor Tina Kotek thanks the person who stepped in, adding that "your actions carry a heavy emotional burden."

A later upload on the channel carries a Friday briefing from Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz, who said the attack took place inside a single classroom and that a teacher had first slowed the gunman by tackling him.

The comment section moved far faster than usual for the channel's Shorts, with much of it addressed to the bystander and to the families.

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