The teacher who threw her phone at a school shooter and wrestled the gunman during a mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, finally spoke out on Friday.

Certified learning specialist Cassidy Schutz explained that the event happened fast and wished there was more time to react.

KATU 2 ABC Reported:

BEND, Ore. (KATU) — The teacher credited with throwing her phone at and wrestling with the gunman during a mass shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., in mid-October spoke out for the first time on Friday.

Cassidy Schutz, a certified learning specialist at the school, said the whole event happened fast and she wished they had more time to react.

Below is Cassidy Schutz full statement about the school shooting.

“There are no words to describe the depth of sadness I am feeling following the events of October 15th. This is not a story. This is a horrific and heartbreaking tragedy, and it is our real lives. My thoughts are with those who were lost, their families, those who were hurt, and those who were there that day. My heart is with you. It all happened so fast, and I wish with everything in me that we had more time. The pain of this loss I will carry with me forever. There are no words for this unimaginable reality we are facing. My focus is on these families, our team, our school, and my own healing. As I continue to navigate this, I ask that you please give me the time, space, and privacy I need to heal. I will not be making any additional public statements at this time.” KATU 2 ABC reported.

The mass shooting resulted in the death of three students and a teacher. The victims were identified as 5-year-old Rhoam Summer and 25-year-old Megan Lambert. The unidentified victims were 8 and 11 years old.

54-year-old teacher Becky Drury and 7-year-old student Saylor Graham are recovering from critical injuries.

Schutz was engaged with the shooter, who was 16 years old. At that time, 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco followed the shooter into the school and fatally shot the gunman.

TGP reported earlier this month about the heroic dad who took action to take down the school shooter.

Silver Rail Elementary has been closed since the mass shooting, which took place in the middle of October. It will remain closed at least until November 6th.

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An illegal alien from Africa was charged with allegedly kidnapping an underage female while attempting to murder her.

According to federal authorities, this happened in Maryland, a sanctuary state.

DHS gave the immigration information to Border Hawk in an exclusive. The accused is 23-year-old Abubakarr Barrie, who is from the African nation of Sierra Leone.

Barrie had picked up a 15-year-old female on October 22nd after offering her a ride to where she asked to be taken. He instead took her back to his residence, which was a basement apartment in Baltimore that he was renting. This happened just after 8pm, according to Fox Baltimore.

The girl told the police that Barrie became violent inside his car and put his arm around her head and neck. He then ordered her to follow him into his home.

After she was inside the residence, Barrie stabbed her many times and ripped off her clothes.

“She began scratching and clawing at Mr. Barrie’s body, in an effort to flee, ultimately finding a fire extinguisher in the room, picked it up and began hitting Mr. Barrie with it, finally able to get away from him stabbing her and fled the home on foot with no shoes or clothes on,” charging documents state. Border Hawk exclusive.

About a half hour later, authorities found the girl blocks away. She had several stab wounds and a collapsed lung.

Barrie was arrested and had nine charges against him, including kidnapping and first-degree attempted murder.

He illegally entered the US in 2023 in Arizona and was released during the disastrous open border under Biden. There is also a detainer for Barrie lodged by ICE.

This past July he was arrested in New York City for possession of a forged instrument. Authorities in New York ignored the detainer and let Barrie out of their custody.

Exclusive Report by Border Hawk:

A dangerous illegal alien captured and released on multiple occasions has been charged for allegedly kidnapping an underage victim and attempting to kill her in the sanctuary state of Maryland, federal authorities say.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just provided Border Hawk with immigration background on Abubakarr Barrie, a 23-year-old citizen of Sierra Leone.

On Oct. 22, Barrie reportedly picked up a 15-year-old girl after offering her a ride to her desired destination but instead brought her back to a basement apartment he was renting in Baltimore shortly after 8 p.m., Fox Baltimore reports.

News clip below.

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The owner of a Baltimore home at the center of an investigation into the alleged kidnapping and stabbing of a 15-year-old girl is sharing new surveillance video with FOX45 News from the night of the alleged attack.

Abubakarr Barrie, 23, is facing nine charges, including attempted first-degree murder and kidnapping, in connection with the Oct. 22 incident.

LATEST DETAILS: https://t.co/pCGF7wAiWi

— FOX Baltimore (@FOXBaltimore) October 28, 2026

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President Trump on Friday said the Republicans would be “very happy” if failed Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris ran for President in 2028, though he noted he doesn’t think she will even try. 

“I heard just a little while ago she was leading the Democrats fairly substantially. I would say that we’d be very happy if she were the candidate, but who knows?” Trump said during an interview with Benny Johnson on the sideline of his Daytona Beach, Florida midterm rally on Friday.

“I don’t think it’s going to happen, but it might. You never know.”

Trump further pointed to the Republican Party and his expectations for the midterm elections on Tuesday

“We’re going to be very strong. We have a very, very good group of people. I think we’re going to have a very powerful— This party is getting better and better all the time. We’re going to be very, very powerful, very strong. The country is doing better than it’s ever done. There’s never been a time like it,” he said.

“You see the crowds. Look at the crowd inside. There’s never been crowds like that for a midterm election. So, a lot of good things are happening. I think we’re going to have a great Tuesday.”

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This comes as a new poll shows Kamala Harris leading in a hypothetical presidential primary with 34% of support among Democrats.

Gavin Newsom trails far behind in second place with 20%, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in third with 11%.

And Harris is out previewing her Democratic Socialists of America-aligned 2028 platform, which includes packing the Supreme Court.

During a recent interview with the “My Body. My Pod.” podcast, Harris called for expansion of the Supreme Court to 13 Justices.

“We also need to take a critical look at the Electoral College, fight for statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.,” she added.

Kamala Harris Tells New Hampshire Crowd Democrats Must Expand the Supreme Court and ‘Be Ruthless’ If They Win (VIDEO)

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California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton released a video on Friday, filmed on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, showing toddlers living in tents and broken-down RVs amid drug needles, filth, and violence.

Hilton labeled the children “Becerra’s missing migrant children,” as there are hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors that federal officials say they lost track of while Xavier Becerra ran the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Becerra’s missing migrant children found living on Skid Row,” Hilton wrote. “I went there with @VenturaReport, and it was horrifying. Toddlers living in tents and broken-down RVs, surrounded by drug needles, filth and violence. Becerra says he’s ‘proud’ of his record at HHS. We can’t let him win this election! VOTE!”

WATCH:

NEW: Becerra’s missing migrant children found living on Skid Row.

I went there with @VenturaReport, and it was horrifying. Toddlers living in tents and broken-down RVs, surrounded by drug needles, filth and violence.

Becerra says he’s “proud” of his record at HHS. We can’t let him win this election! VOTE!

— Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) October 30, 2026

Hilton made the video with journalist Jorge Ventura.

Becerra’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children has been a major campaign issue for Hilton.

As HHS secretary under President Biden, Becerra oversaw the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s placement of hundreds of thousands of minors with sponsors.

A Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General audit found that ICE had lost track of more than 319,000 children after release.

Trump administration HHS advisers have cited roughly 330,000 unresolved cases from Becerra’s tenure, with investigators reporting children later found in sex trafficking, labor exploitation, or deceased.

Hilton has previously released whistleblower testimony and video alleging children were sent to unsafe sponsors, including container sites, after vetting was relaxed to speed releases.

WATCH:

NEW DOCUMENTARY: As HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra sent thousands of migrant children into the clutches of sex and labor traffickers.

This is the SHOCKING story, told directly by the children who lived it and the government whistleblowers who exposed it.

Watch “The Assembly Line: Inside Xavier Becerra’s Child Trafficking Pipeline”

— Steve Hilton (@SteveHiltonx) October 10, 2026

His campaign said in a press release:

The whistleblower further described federal officials prioritizing moving children through the system quickly rather than ensuring their safety. She claimed that staff were instructed to process placements despite concerns and told that their role was to reunify children with sponsors, not investigate the people receiving them.

“What we heard today is heartbreaking,” Hilton said. “This isn’t about politics. It’s about children. If these allegations are true, vulnerable kids were handed over to people who were never properly vetted, warning signs were ignored, and basic safeguards that any parent would expect simply weren’t there.”

The press conference featured testimony regarding two young sisters who entered the facility together but were later separated. The whistleblower recounted the story of a five-year-old girl named Grace who repeatedly asked where her seven-year-old sister had been taken. The former worker said she never learned whether the sisters were reunited after leaving the facility because no follow-up welfare checks occurred.

He has demanded a contractor’s laptop that he says contains evidence that Becerra and the Biden White House knew children were being delivered to traffickers.

“If the testimony of whistleblowers is accurate, and the contents of the laptop are as reported, the role of Xavier Becerra and the Biden White House in the trafficking of thousands of migrant children represents one of the biggest and most shocking scandals in U.S. government history,” Hilton said, according to a report from the New York Post.

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The September 28 airstrike on a market in Kyauktaw, an Arakan Army (AA) stronghold in Rakhine State, killed 50 people and wounded 58, according to aid workers at the scene. The AA reported 49 dead and 58 wounded, including 22 in critical condition.

The Burmese military manufactures none of its combat aircraft and has limited capacity to refine aviation fuel. To sustain its bombing campaign, it relies on jets from Russia and China, fuel from Iran, and parts and financing routed through Southeast Asia.

Iran has become the junta’s main supplier of both jet fuel and urea, a fertilizer the military uses to manufacture munitions. From October 2024 through December 2025, tankers in Iran’s shadow fleet delivered nine shipments of jet fuel to Burma’s military, totaling roughly 175,000 tons.

A January Reuters investigation found that the fuel supplied a bombing campaign that struck more than 1,000 civilian locations over those 15 months. Reuters estimated that Iran could have earned about $123 million from the shipments.

A second Reuters report, published October 26, detailed how the junta concealed these purchases. In December 2025, the U.S.-sanctioned tanker Reef reached Burmese waters carrying about 113,000 barrels of Iranian jet fuel falsely declared as South African diesel. Burmese broker Dynamic Wave had signed a $15.8 million contract with Thailand’s Tawan-Oil Trading for the cargo. Yet United Nations trade data and shipping analytics firm Vortexa recorded no diesel trade between South Africa and Burma in 2025.

An earlier contract, signed in May 2025, covered 202,000 barrels also labeled South African diesel and directed a $26 million payment to Tawan’s account at Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank. Deliveries of Iranian jet fuel continued into 2026.

Justice For Myanmar (JFM), an activist research group, released leaked import records the same day as the October Reuters report. The records document fraudulent paperwork for six cargoes totaling more than 843,000 barrels and valued at $109.5 million between December 2024 and November 2025. These records cover a period within the Reuters investigation’s timeframe; the figures should not be treated as additional shipments without establishing whether the cargoes overlap.

The actual buyer identified in the leaked records was National Energy Prime Aviation Services (NEPAS), a joint venture between the junta-controlled Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise and the privately owned Asia Sun group. Neither NEPAS nor Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise has been sanctioned by any government. Nyo Saw, who chairs the junta committee that approved the falsified import permits, has been sanctioned only by the European Union and Canada. Canada is also the only country that bans aviation fuel exports to Burma.

The fuel has a direct cost in lives. The UN Human Rights Office’s 2025 annual update recorded at least 982 civilians killed in junta airstrikes that year, including 232 children. The death toll was more than 50 percent higher than in 2024.

Russia supplies most of the aircraft. According to The Irrawaddy, the junta’s air force operates Russian MiG-29 fighters, Yak-130 light attack jets and Su-30SME fighters. It has reportedly used Yak-130s and MiG-29s to attack residential areas.

Military photos from a March 12, 2026, ceremony at Meiktila airbase showed four new fighter jets, including two Russian Su-30s. Beyond aircraft deliveries, the two countries also held a joint exercise, TIGER-2026, in Naypyitaw in July. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing met Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 18.

China is the second major supplier. A 2023 UN report by the Special Rapporteur on Burma found that, between the February 2021 coup and December 2022, the junta imported $406 million in arms and related goods from Russia and $267 million from China. Much of that equipment came from state-owned companies. China’s Foreign Ministry rejected the report, calling it a smear against normal arms trade between sovereign countries.

In 2024, the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) supplied eight more aircraft: one K-8 light attack jet, six FTC-2000G light combat jets and one Y-8 transport. The FTC-2000G can carry up to three tons of missiles, rockets or bombs and costs $8.5 million per aircraft. Burmese arms dealer Dr. Naing Htut Aung, director of Gateways Hong Kong, brokered the purchase.

Burma also ordered 16 JF-17 fighters, jointly built by China and Pakistan, in 2016 at $25 million each. However, most of those delivered were later grounded because of structural cracks and other defects.

In the days after the market strike, video showed two aircraft over the Kyauktaw area. Open-source investigators at Myanmar Witness reviewed the footage. Their full report says a weapons specialist identified one aircraft as consistent with a Russian Yak-130 and the other with a Chinese-Pakistani JF-17. Based on the audio, the specialist concluded that each aircraft released at least one munition. The footage concerns subsequent flights, rather than the September 28 market strike.

The junta also relies on foreign suppliers for spare parts and maintenance. A JFM Malaysia investigation, published October 7, found that Malaysian company FJ Global had sought quotes from international suppliers for parts for the junta’s K-8W light attack jets, Russian Orlan-10E drones, and Kamov Ka-28, Mi-17 and Mi-2 helicopters.

In February 2026, FJ Global received financing from Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad (PUNB), a state-backed company wholly owned by a foundation chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Malaysia also hosted Min Aung Hlaing on an official visit in October.

The United States already has the legal tools to target the fuel supply chain. In August 2023, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a sector determination authorizing sanctions against anyone operating in Burma’s jet fuel sector.

The Trump administration, however, has opened direct talks with the junta. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Vance met Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw on September 15 and 16, following an earlier meeting in Tokyo in June. The talks have focused on shutting down scam centers that target Americans and could expand to rare earth minerals.

In October, Theint Win Htet became the fifth junta-linked businessperson to be removed from U.S. sanctions by the Trump administration. Those removed include arms brokers.

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