India, Oct. 17 -- A female teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, engaged in a struggle with a teenage gunman who entered her classroom and attempted to wrestle the gun away from him, according to police. The woman threw her cell phone at the suspect and then disarmed him as he was on the classroom floor.

The shooting occurred on Thursday and resulted in four deaths, with three of the victims being children and one being a teacher. The 16-year-old suspect was later killed by an armed man who had been driving past the school at the time. The individual, who had two daughters enrolled at the school, came into the building to confront the gunman.

According to police, the suspect was a former student at the elementary sch...