Oregon Teacher Disputes Account of Her Heroism During School Shooting

After a teenager went on a deadly rampage at an Oregon elementary school last week, tales of heroism quickly surfaced. A father passing by who chased the attacker and killed him. A teacher who tried to tackle the gunman.

Another teacher was said to have thrown herself on top of a student during the shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore. But she wants to clear the record: She said she was given too much credit for her role.

“The truth is I was shot before I had any chance to act,” the teacher, Becky Drury, said in a statement released by her family on Wednesday.

A family friend of a 7-year-old child who was injured in the attack said last week that Ms. Drury had shielded the child and saved her life when the assailant fired at both of them.

But Ms. Drury, who is still hospitalized with her wounds, said she that was not how she remembered the events.

She recalled hearing a commotion outside the special education classroom and running into the hall to find out what was going on.

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