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Hero Dad Who Took Down School Shooter Speaks Out: 'I Was Supposed to Be There'
- On October 15, carpenter Kaylub Giamanco, 36, shot and killed 16-year-old Griffin John II at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, stopping the school shooting.
- While driving home for lunch, Giamanco spotted John firing his rifle at a pickup truck and called 911. "I'm sorry, but I have to go in. People are going to die," he told the dispatcher before rushing inside.
- Crawling through a broken window, Giamanco heard children "plead for their lives" before finding a teacher struggling with John in the special needs classroom.
- Afterward, Giamanco called his mother, Kenda Freeman, telling her he "had to take the life of what I think might be a child" because the gunman entered his daughters' school with a weapon.
- The attack killed three children—ages 5, 8, and 11—and teacher Megan Lambert. Giamanco expressed gratitude for support but acknowledged struggling with not saving everyone, saying, "I didn't save everybody.
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