Memorial to victims grows outside Oregon elementary school following mass shooting

UPDATE (1:30 PM): Bend officials are holding a press conference to provide an update on Thursday's mass shooting.

To watch the livestream of the press conference, see attached video.

BEND, Ore. (CNN, KYMA) - Outside the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon Friday, a memorial is growing.

The Bend community placed balloons, flowers, candles and stuffed toy animals on the sidewalk entrance.

Victims of Thursday's mass shooting are being remembered. Three children between the ages of five and 11 we. A teacher also died.

Another child and a teacher are hospitalized with critical injuries.

Police said the gunman was a 16-year-old Bend resident, and said he was fatally shot by a civilian who chased him into the school.

The motive for the shooting remains unknown.

Classes were canceled Friday, and authorities were set to hold a news conference with updates on the investigation later in the day.