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Father who killed Oregon school shooter speaks out for first time: ‘I have to go in’
The Guardian • • general
Key Points:
- Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old Oregon father, spoke for the first time about stopping a school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, where he fatally shot the 16-year-old shooter, Griffin J John II, who killed one teacher and three children.
- Giamanco described how he noticed the armed teenager entering the school, called 911, and pursued him by crawling through a broken window to confront him in a special education classroom.
- He expressed deep remorse for the victims he could not save and revealed that the traumatic experience causes him sleepless nights and self-reflection on whether he could have done more.
- Giamanco advocates for improved school safety measures, including placing school resource officers at every school and raising funds to support these efforts.
