Father who fatally shot Oregon school gunman describes his actions and grief in OPB interview

Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter, said in an Oregon Public Broadcasting interview that aired Friday that he fatally shot a gunman at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where his two daughters are students. Police said six people were shot in a classroom; a 16-year-old former student killed three boys, aged five, eight and 11, and a teacher, and another child and a teacher were wounded. Giamanco said he happened to be driving past after deciding to go home for lunch. He said he saw a man in black firing a long gun at a vehicle, then saw the shooter throw the gun over the school fence and climb it. He took a .40-caliber handgun from his truck's center console, grabbed its magazine, drove into the school lot and called 911 using Siri, but left the call, telling the dispatcher he had to go in. He credited a teacher who fought the attacker with giving him the chance to act, and said he wants to meet the victims' families.

Right-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing; left-leaning and alternative/independent outlets had. CBS News, on the left, leads with Giamanco speaking out for the first time and builds its piece around the sequence of his decisions, using his own words about panic, the gun in his console and the 911 call. Its opening does not mention the victims' ages or his apology. BBC News, classed as alternative/independent, takes a different angle: it leads with his anguish over the children he could not save, his apology to parents, his wish to meet families and his praise for the teacher, and it supplies the victims' ages, the attacker's age and the police casualty count. Both identify him as a hailed hero and cite OPB.