# Shotgun used in Oregon school shooting was mom's birthday gift

> A 16-year-old killed four people at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend with a legally purchased shotgun his mother gave him for his birthday.
- Title: Shotgun used in Oregon school shooting was mom's birthday gift
- Summary: A 16-year-old killed four people at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend with a legally purchased shotgun his mother gave him for his birthday. A…
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- Source: CBS News — https://cbsnews.com/news/bend-oregon-elementary-school-shooting-gun-birthday-gift-mom
- Author: Jordan  Freiman
- Published: 2026-10-20T18:01:44+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: silver rail elementary school, bend oregon, school shooting, shotgun, shauntai nickerson, griffin j. john ii, news
## Sixteen-year-old kills four at Oregon school
A sixteen-year-old shot and killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon last week. Two others were wounded in the attack.
## Gun was legal birthday gift from mother
The Maverick eighty-eight pump-action twelve-gauge shotgun was purchased legally in August twenty twenty-six by Shauntai Nickerson, the shooter's mother, and given to him for recreational use.
## Victims identified as young children and teacher
The children killed were ages five, eight and eleven.The teacher killed was twenty-five-year-old Megan Lambert.The five-year-old was identified as Rhoam Summer.The families of the two other children have not made their names public.
## Bystander shot and killed the attacker
Thirty-six-year-old Kaylub Giamanco, a Bend resident with two daughters at the school, saw the first shooting and followed the shooter inside, where he shot and killed him.
## Key takeaway

A sixteen-year-old shot and killed three children and a teacher at a Bend, Oregon school with a shotgun his mother had legally purchased and given him as a birthday gift.