Oregon Dad Stops School Shooter, Refuses to Let Killer Speak
Armed father intervenes at Oregon school, ends threat without allowing shooter to speak.
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Kaylub Giamanco, an armed father from Bend, Oregon, recounted his harrowing experience confronting a school shooter during an interview with CBS Mornings. On October 15, Giamanco was driving past Silver Rail Elementary when he spotted a 16-year-old with a shotgun opening fire on the campus.
Inside the school, Griffin J. John II had already murdered three children and a teacher, forcing his way into another classroom. Giamanco, whose own daughters attended the school, described the moment he decided to act.
“I kind of went into mission mode,” he told host Norah O’Donnell. He dialed 911, informed the dispatcher he was armed, and decided to intervene rather than wait for police. “I crawled into the building and peeked into the window of the classroom,” he said. “I saw him struggling with the teacher.” That brief struggle gave Giamanco the opening he needed.
🚨 LEGEND – HERO Dad Kaylub Giamanco just shared what he told the Bend, Oregon School Shooter right before taking his life:
After the first shot, the wounded teenager was still moving, still reaching for his weapon, and trying to speak. “He was still struggling, trying to regain control,” Giamanco said. “And I was just taught that if an assailant can move, they can shoot. And so, you know, we had to finish the situation, unfortunately.” Giamanco emphasized that he did not want to take a life, but it was necessary to prevent further loss of life.
“Did he say anything to you?” TV host Gayle King asked. Giamanco responded, “He went to say something, and I just — I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. He had taken lives.” King asked, “What did you say to him?” Giamanco replied, “It told him, ‘f*** you.'”
Authorities on Tuesday released the 911 call made by Kaylub Giamanco as he rushed to help during the October 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
Giamanco then ended the threat so the man could not hurt anyone else. Authorities have brought no charges against him. Focusing on the profanity misses the point entirely. The real significance lies in the refusal to grant a mass murderer of elementary school children a final monologue.
Hero dad Kaylub Giamanco revealed what he said before he stopped the elementary school shooter in Bend, Oregon.
Giamanco had already witnessed the horror; he had heard the children’s screams and seen the immediate aftermath of the assault. Allowing the shooter a moment to explain, apologize, or perform remorse would require treating him as a person whose voice still mattered. It didn’t. The only relevant reality left was that the gunman remained an active threat, and Giamanco neutralized that threat.
This sequence reads like the kind of decisive action that used to define classic cinema, back when writing still treated competence and moral clarity as virtues: An ordinary parent, armed only with a legally owned handgun from his vehicle, intervening in seconds, not waiting for permission from authorities. A father saw children in danger, acted, and then refused to let their murderer have the last word. That single-minded focus is exactly what stopped the killing.
Giamanco has said he cannot unhear the screams of the children he did not reach in time. He has described mixed feelings when he held his own children afterward, knowing other parents would not hold theirs.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
