Teacher tackled the gunman

A female teacher at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon threw her mobile phone and wrestled with a sixteen-year-old shooter on the classroom floor, trying to disarm him.

Four people killed in the attack

The attacker shot his way into the building on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher. Police identified two victims as five-year-old Rhoam Summer and twenty-five-year-old teacher Megan Lambert.

Father shot the suspect dead

A father with two daughters at the school was driving past when the attack started. Armed with a pistol, he ran in and confronted the suspect, firing multiple times and killing him.

The shooter was a former student

Police identified the attacker as sixteen-year-old Griffin J John II, who had been a special educational needs student at Silver Rail Elementary. His motive remains unclear.

Ammunition and injuries

The attacker fired as many as fifteen rounds in the class and had about forty-four more rounds of shotgun ammunition when he was stopped. Two others were injured: a fifty-four-year-old teacher and a seven-year-old student.

The father's identity and actions

Kaylub Giamanco, a thirty-six-year-old carpenter, had just finished lunch and was driving home when he saw the suspect open fire on a vehicle and shoot through a window.

Giamanco's account to his mother

After the shooting, Giamanco called his mother Kenda Freeman in Sacramento, California. He told her he looked at the suspect point blank and shot and killed him, but said he could not save them all.

“and I looked at him point blank, and I shot and killed him, mum”

Police praise for those who intervened

Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said the teacher and father showed courage and prevented the tragedy from being worse. The teacher had not been hurt but almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed.

“To the people who showed courage in the face of such violence and intervened to prevent this tragedy from being any worse, we owe you a debt of gratitude”