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ByNigelDuara TheAssociatedPress TROUTDALE, ORE. A teen gunman armed with a ri- fle shot and killed a stu- dent Tuesday and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon, au- thorities said. After the shooting stopped, police spotted the suspect slumped on a toilet in a bathroom but couldn't see what was happening with him. Officers used a robot with a camera to investi- gate and discovered the suspect was dead and that he had likely killed himself, Troutdale, po- lice spokesman Sgt. Carey Kaer said. Authorities have tenta- tively identified the gun- man and the slain student, who was found in a locker room at Reynolds High School, but the names were being withheld until their families were notified, po- lice Chief Scott Anderson said. The teacher's injuries weren't life-threatening, and he was treated at the scene. He was identified as Todd Rispler, a 50-year- old physical education in- structor and former track coach and quarterback at the school. The attack panicked stu- dents after a lockdown was ordered and they were told to go quietly to their class- rooms. Freshman Morgan Rose, 15, said she hunkered down in a locker room with an- other student and two teachers. "It was scary in the mo- ment. Now knowing every- thing's OK, I'm better," she said. Freshman Daniel De- Long, 15, said after the shooting that he saw a physical education teacher at the school with a blood- ied shirt. He said he was texting friends to make sure they were all OK. "It just, like, happened so fast, you know?" he said. Anderson said two on- campus police officers were the first to respond to re- ports of a shooting. The of- ficers and a tactical team sent to the school "brought this to a conclusion," An- derson said, without elab- orating. The chief said he was sorry for the family of the slain student. "Today is a very tragic day for the city of Troutdale," the chief said. Gov. John Kitzhaber added in a statement: "Ore- gon hurts as we try to make sense of a senseless act of violence." The first reports of shots fired came at 8 a.m. on the next-to-last-day of classes. Police initially seemed un- certain about whether there was a live shooter in the school. Students were eventually led from the school with hands up or on their heads. Parents and students were reunited in a supermarket parking lot. Mandy Johnson said her daughter called from a friend's phone. "I thank God that she's safe," said Johnson, who has three younger children. "I don't want to send my kids to school anymore." The Reynolds School District issued a statement mourning the loss of one of its students. Reynolds is the second- largest high school in Ore- gon, with about 2,800 stu- dents. The school is about 15 miles from Portland and its students come from sev- eral communities. During the evacuation of the school, authorities found another student with a gun and he was taken into custody. That weapon and arrest were not related to the shooting, Anderson said. The Oregon violence came less than a week after a gunman opened fire on a college campus in neigh- boring Washington state, killing a 19-year-old man and wounding two others. It follows a string of mass shootings that have dis- turbed the nation, includ- ing one on Sunday in Ne- vada that left two Las Ve- gas police officers and a civilian dead. SCHOOL SHOOTINGS Po li ce : Or eg on t ee n ki ll s student, self at high school RICKBOWMER—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Students look for family members a er arriving at a shopping center parking lot in Wood Village, Ore., a er a shooting at Reynolds High School on Tuesday. A gunman killed a student at the high school east of Portland Tuesday and the shooter is also dead, police said. JOHN TERHUNE — JOURNAL & COURIER A note expressing profound sadness while at the same time asking for privacy from the media is posted on the front door of the home of Jerad Miller's parents on Tuesday, in Lafayette, Ind. By Michelle Rindels The Associated Press LAS VEGAS His face painted to look like the comic book villain the Joker, a man who would months later gun down two police officers and a good Samar- itan punctuates his politi- cal rant with manic glares at the camera. In another online video, Jerad Miller warns that police can't be trusted. "What better way to kill and rape, after all, if you're wearing a badge," he says. "When law enforcement and government are the crimi- nals, they will fear an armed and educated people." Investigators in Las Ve- gas are studying those vid- eos and a range of other so- cial media posts by Miller, 31, as they try to untan- gle what led him and his 22-year-old wife to gun down two police officers and a civilian before tak- ing their own lives. Capt. Chris Jones of the Las Vegas Police Depart- ment's Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Cen- ter identified Miller as the man in the videos, which decry what Miller sees as a tyrannical American gov- ernment. The couple left a swas- tika and a "Don't tread on me" flag on the body of one of the two officers they killed and promoted an ide- ology shared by "militia and white supremacists," in- cluding the belief that law enforcement was the "op- pressor," authorities said Monday. Their views were appar- ently too extreme for anti- government protesters who faced down federal agents earlier this year at a Nevada ranch. The Joker videos were posted on YouTube with a time stamp just before the 2012 presidential election, a few months after Jerad and Amanda Miller married. Authorities believe they came to the Las Vegas area in January. This spring, they went to the ranch of Cliven Bundy, who along with armed supporters thwarted a roundup of Bun- dy's cattle by the U.S. Bu- reau of Land Management, which wants to collect more than $1 million in grazing fees and penalties. Vegas shooter decried government in videos MASS SHOOTINGS The Associated Press SEATTLE The gunman who killed one student and wounded two others at a small Seattle college last week had stopped taking his medications because he "wanted to feel the hate," and he detailed his plans in a handwritten journal for two weeks before the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday. "I just want people to die, and I'm gonna die with them!" Aaron Ybarra wrote the day of the shoot- ing, King County Prosecu- tor Dan Satterberg said. Satterberg released new details of the allegations as he filed charges of first- degree murder, attempted murder and assault against Ybarra, 26. Satterberg is seeking an exceptional sen- tence of life in prison. Authorities say Ybarra has been held on suicide watch without bail at the county jail since a student pepper-sprayed the gun- man and ended the ram- page Thursday at Seattle Pacific University. Ybarra's lawyer, Ramona Brandes, has said her client has a long history of men- tal issues but is aware of the trauma caused by the shoot- ing and is sorry. The journal, recovered by police from Ybarra's truck, reflects Ybarra's admira- tion for the school shooters at Virginia Tech and Colum- bine High School but does not clearly explain why he targeted the Seattle college, Satterberg said. 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