🗞️ Story file #886
Oregon father who killed school shooter shares account of incident
Oct 23, 7 PM ET to Oct 24, 4 AM ET
- 13outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 1 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 9 hourson the front pages
- 13front pages at once, at its peak
- 7 minof TV captions
- 3 of 3parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 23, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
- Oct 23, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 23, 10 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report Google News
💬 quoted: “pleading for their lives” 2 “There's babies in there” 2 “I didn't save everybody” “I have to go in” “I was supposed to be there”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 shooter speaks 🫏 stopped oregon 🫏 there's babies
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “Oregon father who killed school shooter says he regrets there were children he didn't save” → “'There's babies in there': Oregon father describes stopping school shooter”
Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating
The Guardian
Father who killed Oregon school shooter speaks out for first time: ‘I have to go in’ Oct 23, 8 PM ET
ABC News
Hero dad who took down school shooter speaks out: 'I was supposed to be there' Oct 23, 9 PM ET
CBS News
Hero dad who stopped Oregon school shooter shares his story Oct 23, 4 PM ET
NBC News
‘I didn’t save everybody’: Hero who stopped Bend school shooter is haunted by encounter Oct 23, 6 PM ET
PBS NewsHour
Oregon father who killed school shooter says he regrets there were children he didn't save Oct 23, 6 PM ET
The Independent
Dad who shot school gunman says kids were ‘pleading for their lives’ Oct 23, 6 PM ET
USA Today
'There's babies in there': Hero dad recounts stopping Oregon shooter Oct 23, 10 PM ET
Yahoo News
Carpenter who stopped Oregon school shooter describes crawling toward gunfire Oct 23, 8 PM ET
BBC
Father who killed Oregon school shooter describes anguish over children he couldn't save Oct 23, 7 PM ET
Just the News
Man credited with saving lives in Oregon school shooting reveals more details about his actions Oct 23, 1 PM ET
Breitbart
Father Who Killed Oregon School Attacker Describes Tense Seconds Before Pulling Trigger Oct 23, 8 PM ET
New York Post
Hero dad who killed Oregon school shooter recalls hearing children ‘pleading for their lives’ as massacre unfolded Oct 23, 3 PM ET
The Daily Wire
Hero Dad Who Took Down School Shooter Reveals What He Heard Before Pulling The Trigger Oct 23, 7 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER GRAPPLES WITH THE AFTERMATH CNN, 3 min
- MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED CNN, 84 s
- MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER ON HOW HE CONFRONTED THE GUNMAN CNN, 50 s
- "HERO" DAD IN OREGON SPEAKS OUT CNN, 48 s
- "HERO" DAD SPEAKS OUT CNN, 31 s
- "HERO" DAD IN OREGON SHOOTING CNN, 22 s
- "HERO" DAD WHO STOPPED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER CNN, 15 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Oregon Bend
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Oregon school shooting survivor
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Oct 15, 6 PM ET
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