[8] The shooter, 15-year-old Jared Michael Padgett, who was using an AR-15 and also equipped with a handgun and a knife, engaged a responding officer in a gunfight before retreating inside a school bathroom, where he fatally shot himself.

He was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, and his oldest brother served in the military in Afghanistan.

[12] Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber attended a community vigil in Troutdale that evening; he called the shooting "a senseless act of violence".

[17] 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.

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