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Oregon Father Regrets Not Saving More Children in School Shooting
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In Short: Kaylub Giamanco, a father whose two daughters attend Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, expressed deep regret for not saving more children during the Oct. 15 shooting.
In an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting, Giamanco described crawling through the damaged school building, hearing children crying for help, and confronting the 16-year-old shooter.
Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting, 'I want to apologize for not saving their babies, that’s probably the biggest thing for me right now.'
Giamanco said he felt a surge of panic and grabbed a.40-caliber handgun from his truck to confront the gunman, who had already killed three children and a teacher.
The shooter, identified as a 16-year-old boy, was killed by Giamanco after the boy had been tackled by a teacher who threw her phone at him and wrestled for the gun.
Superintendent Steven Cook of Bend-La Pine Schools expressed shock and grief over the tragedy, extending sympathy to all affected by the violence.
Giamanco's actions were acknowledged by Oregon Governor Tina Kotek as heroic, but she noted the emotional burden they carry.
The school, which has 459 enrolled students, was the scene of a shooting that left four dead and two critically injured.
The incident highlights the ongoing issue of school shootings in the United States, with 235 such incidents reported at K-12 schools last year.
Giamanco's wife told the media that her husband is a 'real true hero' whose actions gave him an opening to stop the attacker.
Despite his heroic actions, Giamanco feels a profound sense of failure for not being able to save more lives that day.
Background
Despite some variation in the details, all reports agree that a 16-year-old shooter killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, before being shot and killed by a bystander.
What's confirmed
- “I want to apologize for not saving their babies, that’s probably the biggest thing for me right now,” Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting in an interview published Friday.
- In addition, a 7-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to the hospital with critical injuries, police said.
- EN ESPAÑOL | Cuatro muertos en tiroteo en una escuela primaria de Oregon The Bend Police Department said officers responded just before 1 p.m. to the Silver Rail Elementary School after a first call reported a person fired a gun into a car.
- Police confirmed that three children -- ages 5, 8 and 11 years old -- a teacher, and the shooter were killed.
- “We are stunned and heartbroken by this senseless tragedy,” Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook said.
What's still developing
- A string of innocuous choices made by an Oregon father brought him to the elementary school where he killed a mass shooter in an act he believed would be his last.
- Kaylub Giamanco, whose two daughters attend Silver Rail Elementary, where the Oct. 15 attack occurred, said he feels like he failed the families of those who died.
- A few hours later, the 36-year-old carpenter was passing the school again as he was heading home for lunch.
- But 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco tells Oregon Public Broadcasting that he feels like he failed the families of those who died in the attack last week.
- Police tape is placed outside Silver Rail Elementary school, where a shooting took place, on Thursday, Oct.
- In a 2020 interview with the local news station KTVZ, Nickerson identified the boy, then 10, as a participant in a special needs program run by the school district.
- Between 400 and 450 children attend the elementary school, where there is a staff of more than 40 people.
- Two of the victims were five-year-old Rhoam Summer (left) and teacher Meghan Lambert, 25 (right) A female teacher in the US state of Oregon tackled a teenage shooter who entered her classroom and tried to wrestle the gun from his grasp, police have said.
- Retired FBI special agent Rob Chadwick joins Brian Kilmeade to discuss the school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, where three children and one teacher were killed.
- Within minutes, more callers reported a person walked into the school and started shooting.
- ( KPTV /Gray News) - Five people are dead after a shooting occurred at an elementary school in Oregon.
- Earlier reports stated that four people were killed, saying those were one adult and three children.