At least two injured, one of them a minor, in a shooting at an Oregon school

At least two people, one of them a minor, were taken to a hospital after a shooting occurred this Thursday at an elementary school in the city of Bend, state of Oregon, in the eastern United States.

The suspect would have been shot dead by the authorities, according to the communications director of the Bend Police Department, Sheila Miller, informed the press.

The authorities received a call around 1 p.m. about a person shooting at a car. Minutes later, they began receiving more calls to emergency services alerting of an active shooting at an elementary school.

The state governor, Tina Kotek, indicated in a message on her Facebook account that she is monitoring the situation and thanked the authorities for the quick response.

The communications director added that there were "several victims" related to this event, although she did not specify details.

The United States has seen more than 350 mass shootings so far this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, which counts these types of incidents and considers mass shootings to be those in which the number of dead or injured is four or more, not including the shooter.

One of the most recent shootings took place last Saturday, in which at least eight people died, two of them children, after a shooter opened fire in the town of Erie, in northern Pennsylvania, before taking his own life.