Father who shot Oregon school gunman describes the attack and his anguish over children he couldn't save

Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter, fatally shot a 16-year-old gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 15, ending an attack that killed three students and a teacher. The dead students were boys aged 5, 8 and 11, and the teacher was 25. Police said six people were shot in a classroom, including another child and a teacher who were wounded. Giamanco, whose two daughters attend the school, told Oregon Public Broadcasting he happened to be driving past on a trip home for lunch when he saw a man in black firing at a vehicle, then throwing a gun over the school fence and climbing it. He took a .40-caliber handgun from his truck, called 911, then left the call to go in, saying people would die. Police credited him with preventing further deaths. He said a teacher who fought the attacker gave him the chance to act, and he said he wants to meet the victims' families.

Left-leaning CBS News leads with the "hero dad" and the happenstance of his route: the lunch decision, the handgun in his console, the Siri-placed 911 call and his panic about children. In the portion shown, it gives no casualty figures and no apology. Right-leaning Daily Wire also calls him a hero, but it adds the casualty ages, the 25-year-old teacher, the shotgun, Brentwood Avenue, the red pickup and the police credit. Breitbart cites a CNN interview rather than OPB, notes police first called him a "bystander" and that he carries concealed, and quotes his tactics: crawling through a shot-out window, re-racking his weapon and seeing a teacher struggle with the gunman. Both sides use his 911 remark. BBC, the alternative source, stresses his apology to parents and his praise for the teacher.