Today is a day of mourning. we ll go through grief. we ll have memorials. and then there will come a time when we have all the facts from the investigation which is ongoing that we may find discrete ways to deal with problems such as this in the future. unfortunately, this is not the first time that i ve spoken at a news conference like this. thirston was two miles from my home and in the case of thurston, it was tremendous demand for information which isn t yet readily available. for solutions. which we can t even begin to think of until we know all the facts. and the impatience. this is not a time to be impatient. it s a time first to come together and solidarity and to give what solace we can to those
1998 in thirston, oregon, which is a community about 110 miles south of where this shooting took place today in springfield, oregon, in fact, and a 16-year-old expelled high school student murdered his parents and then used three different firearms to kill two others and wound 25. so we have this period of 17 years between these mass casualty indents in those local communities and yet here it circles back around again, brian. it s like it s like bad air in an airplane or something. starts in the back of the plane and eventually makes its way up front and then it comes all the way to the back again. and the same thing, that student back in 1998, significant mental health problems. traditional he heard voices in his head, thought the cia put a chip in his brain, things like