Oregon School Shooting: Heroic Stops

A 16-year-old shooter at Oregon school killed three children and a teacher, but armed bystanders stopped him.

Oct 17, 2026

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Oregon School Shooting: Heroic Stops

A 16-year-old shooter at Oregon school killed three children and a teacher, but armed bystanders stopped him.

In brief

A 16-year-old shooter at Oregon school killed three children and a teacher, but armed bystanders stopped him. A 16-year-old shooter killed three children and a teacher at Oregon school, but armed bystanders stopped him. Originally reported by HuffPost.

Shooter at school

This aerial view shows Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 17, 2026. Three children and one teacher were shot dead at an elementary school

A 16-year-old boy tossed a shotgun over a low chain-link fence and climbed over it himself.

First responder

Flowers and candles are seen at a makeshift memorial outside Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Ore., Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, a day after a deadly shooting. (AP Pho

Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter, drove into the parking lot with a .40-caliber pistol.

Shooting begins

The boy blasted through the school's glass panes with the shotgun, killing three children and a teacher.

Heroic intervention

Giamanco shot the shooter, Griffin John II, killing him after the teacher wrestled with him.

Aftermath

Aftermath

Three children and one teacher were killed; the shooter was 16 and died from multiple gunshot wounds.

What it means

A 16-year-old shooter killed three children and a teacher at Oregon school, but armed bystanders stopped him.

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