On August 28, 2022, a gunman opened fire at a Safeway grocery store in Bend, Oregon, killing two men, one of whom was an employee, and wounding two other people before committing suicide.
[1] The gunman, 20-year-old Ethan Blair Miller, was captured on Ring Doorbell surveillance leaving his Fox Hollow apartment building at 7:03 pm, armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun.
Miller wore a green satchel containing ammunition, a tactical vest and a black shirt with the word HURT in dark red lettering across his chest in reference to the Nine Inch Nails song.
He opened fire, hitting stacks of hot tubs, a parked van, and wounding the driver of a moving black Honda Civic with glass and shrapnel as he shot through the passenger-side window.
[6] Upon reaching the west entrance of the Safeway, he shot Glenn Edward Bennett, an 84-year-old customer and Korean War veteran, five times, striking near his groin, right arm and left thigh.
[10] Miller is then seen walking over to the meat section where he confronts a hiding person laying on the ground, firing a shot beside him and continuing, leaving the patron unharmed.
[2] The gunman then continues to the produce aisle where Miller proceedes to sit back against a shelf and place the shotgun under him, firing upwards, ending the shooting.
In his journal, Miller wrote that he wanted to murder people due to isolation, loneliness, feuds with his family, and frustrations at being unable to find a girlfriend.