Make New York Post a Preferred Source The heroic Oregon dad who ended a school shooter’s rampage cursed the deranged teen out after he shot him.
Kaylub Giamanco, 36, told CBS Mornings there were a few moments after he’d shot 16-year-old Griffin J. John II in a classroom at Bend’s Silver Rail Elementary School on Oct. 15 that the gunman was still alive and trying to speak.
“I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. He had taken lives,” Giamanco recounted on Tuesday. “I said ‘F–k you’.”
Kaylub and Kelsey Giamanco appear in an undated photo. Kaylub, who has two daughters at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., shot and killed a teen gunman who murdered three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and a teacher in their classrooms on Oct. 15. facebook/Kaylub Giamanco Griffin J. John, 16, appears in this undated Facebook photo posted Sept. 10, 2026. John was identified as the shooter at Silver Rail Elementary School. Shauntai NIckerson / Facebook “I don’t know what he was about to say and it didn’t matter,” he added. “It didn’t matter. I just knew he had taken the lives of innocent little babies, you know, 5, 8 and 11.”
John had just murdered three students and a teacher with a shotgun when Giamanco snuck after him into the school with his personal handgun and shot the killer down..
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