Security expert discusses deadly Oregon school shooting

NPR | By Steve Inskeep

Published October 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM CDT

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks security expert Juliette Kayyem of Harvard's Kennedy School about the shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon.

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