On August 28, 2022, a gunman "Ethan Miller" Shot and killed two people and injured two others at a Safeway supermarket in Bend, Oregon. He then committed suicide when police entered the building.

Perpetrator

Born October 31, 2001, Miller lived in the nearby Fox Hollow apartment building with his mother and his younger brother. Miller attended and graduated at Mountain View High School, according to a former classmate of Mountain View High, Miller would often get into trouble at school and 'Picked on" other students. Miller would describe his high school experiences much differently, saying that he had "No Good Memories About That School" in one of his writings, however giving no reason or story as to why.

At some point Miller's mental health started to decline and he started to become infatuated by the Columbine shooting, he purchased several firearm's and began to write a journal titled "The Downward Spiral of Ethan Miller" over the course of a month. In the journal he blames society for "creating him" and claims that he wanted to murder people due to isolation, loneliness, feuds with his family and frustrations at being unable to find a girlfriend.

Miller planned to attacking his former high school, Mountain View High School on September 8 2022. However he did not go through with this as he "couldn't wait long enough for the high school to reopen" He would also write posts on Wattpad talking about his thoughts and emotions.

(Miller's Wattpad account)

During this time he would also upload videos of him shooting guns, edits and photos on YouTube and Instagram.

Preparations

On August 28, 2022, Miller would post a journal on Wattpad titled "Goodbye"

He then presumably loads and equips his weapons. A Radical Firearms RF-15 rifle and a Stevens Model 320 shotgun. At some point Miller Puts two molotov cocktails and a sawed-off shotgun in the trunk of his 1997 Ford F-250.

The Shooting

At 7:03 pm Miller then leaves his apartment and walks outside to his truck, for some unknown reason Miller fires three times into his truck and then walks away.

• (Map of the shooters movement)

at 7:04 pm Miller began to fire into the Costco parking lot as he was walking to the forum shopping center. Once he had reached the parking lot of the Forum shopping center at 7:06 pm he fires into the Big Lots store adjacent to Safeway. After this he can be seen on CCTV walking right by the big lots store heading towards the Safeway supermarket.

At 7:07 pm he reaches the Safeway and fires through the front doors and enters the building.

As he enters the building in he discards his empty magazine and inserts a new one. After reloading his weapon he spots and fires at Glenn Bennett fatally wounding him.

He then begins to aimlessly roam around the store moving through aisles and shooting at random objects, he then reloads his weapon another time and fiddles around with his equipment for a brief moment. Miller then encounters another person and walks toward them as they stumble away, Miller throws something to his left and presumably talks to the man for a moment, he then quickly raises his rifle and fires off to the right missing the man as he plays dead.

Miller then begins to walk down the frozen meat section wildly firing at the displays and freezers, however up ahead of him is Donald Surrett Jr who was hiding behind a produce cart with a knife. Once Miller approaches the produce cart Surrett jumps and stabs him with the knife and attempts to disarm Miller causing Miller to drop his shotgun. Unfortunately Miller manages to overpower Surrett and kills him, he then drops his rifle and picks his shotgun back up and shoots Surrett with it.

He then begins to walk down the fruit section and racks his shotgun, however immediately after doing so Miller hears police enter the store and quickly ducks down and lays on the fruit display, putting the barrel of the shotgun in his mouth. At 7:08 he then pulls the trigger killing himself, police then rush to the gunshot only to find Miller dead and the body of Surrett nearby.

Aftermath

The shooting lasted 5 minutes and killed 1 and injured 2, Bennett would later die in hospital raising the total to 2 killed and 2 injured.

After the shooting the families of Bennett and Surrett would both start a gofundme. Bennett would raise 58,651$ and Surrett would raise 128,984$ for a total of 187,635$ together.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/Uncleglenn

The gofundme for Bennett is still available if you would like to donate