Key facts
- Kaylub Giamanco fatally shot a gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School on Oct. 15, 2026.
- The gunman killed three students and a teacher and injured another student and teacher.
- Giamanco was driving home for lunch when he witnessed the shooting begin.
Kaylub Giamanco recounted how he intervened in a deadly shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15, 2026. Giamanco, whose two daughters attend the school, was driving home for lunch when he saw the gunman, identified as 16-year-old Griffin John, jump a fence and begin shooting. Hearing children pleading for their lives and gunfire, Giamanco retrieved his handgun and entered the school. He found a teacher struggling with the gunman in a classroom and fatally shot him. The attack resulted in the deaths of three students and a teacher, with another student and teacher injured. Police praised Giamanco's actions, while he expressed remorse for the lives he could not save.