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.

After leaving the Fox Hollow apartment building at about 7:00 pm, the gunman, 20-year-old Ethan Blair Miller, fired into his own vehicle, a 1997 Ford F-250, in the parking lot of the apartment building. The gunman, armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a shotgun, then fired into the parking lot of a Costco as he walked to the Forum shopping center.

At about 7:04 pm, Miller reached the parking lot of the Forum shopping center, where he fired into a Big Lots store adjacent to Safeway. Upon reaching the west entrance of the Safeway, he shot Glenn Edward Bennett, an 84-year-old customer. Two other shoppers of the grocery store fled when the shooting started, but later returned to help Bennett, who had been lying on the ground. Bennett later died from his injuries in the hospital

The gunman then moved farther into the store, firing into aisles as he progressed. He eventually reached the store's produce section, where he was stabbed by Donald Ray Surrett Jr., a 66-year-old employee who had hidden behind a produce cart in the store after he heard gunshots. When the gunman looked in the opposite direction, Surrett stabbed him with a produce knife and attempted to disarm him. However, the shooter eventually overpowered Surrett and shot him to death. Two other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the shooting.

After receiving an emergency 911 call, officers entered the grocery store from the front and back. At 7:08 pm, Miller was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two firearms he used were found near his body.

In total, the gunman fired more than 100 shots. While law enforcement has not completed its search of shell casings, they have recovered more than 100 shell casings from the gunman's apartment complex, The Forum shopping center, and the interior of the Safeway. Three molotov cocktails and a sawed-off shotgun were also found in the shooter's truck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bend ,_Oregon_shooting

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