A heroic Oregon father is heard frantically telling a 911 dispatcher he is about to kill a school shooter before abruptly abandoning the call and rushing inside his daughters’ elementary school to stop the attack.
Newly released audio captures 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco’s desperate efforts to alert authorities as a shooter opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on October 15. The recording reveals Giamanco’s growing frustration as the dispatcher repeatedly talks over him and instructs him to wait for police, while he insists the gunman is already inside the building and shooting.
“Oh my God, someone’s at my daughters’ school with a gun,” Giamanco tells the dispatcher. “I have a gun, and I will shoot them right now if I have to.”
The dispatcher immediately urges him to stop, and to refrain from intervening. “Okay, tell me exactly what happened. Don’t do anything. Let me get an officer there, okay?” she says.
Giamanco repeatedly shouts the name of the school before telling the dispatcher, “This is my daughter’s school! I’m about to go kill this kid. He’s in the school!”
As the dispatcher attempts to gather additional information, Giamanco grows increasingly agitated, repeatedly emphasizing that the shooter is inside. “Entering the building. Right now!” he shouts. “God damn it, they’re [expletive] shooting people! Come on!”
“Is he shooting?” the dispatcher asks.
“Yeah,” Giamanco responds more quietly. “He’s shooting.”
The dispatcher then asks for the gunman’s race, but Giamanco’s end of the call falls silent. The recording continues for several seconds as the dispatcher attempts to get him to respond.
“I need you to tell me what’s going on,” she says. “We have help en route.”
The 78-second recording, released Tuesday by Deschutes County 911, corroborates Giamanco’s account of the shooting previously shared in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting.
“I’m sorry, I have to go in. People are going to die,” Giamanco recalled telling the dispatcher.
Giamanco, a carpenter and father of two girls who attend Silver Rail Elementary, was driving home for lunch when he spotted the armed teenager entering the school. He had dropped his daughters off earlier that morning for school picture day.
In his earlier interview, Giamanco described being overcome with panic as he realized children were inside the building. “No, no, no, no, no,” he recalled saying to himself before retrieving his legally owned handgun from his truck.
He then followed the gunman toward the school, eventually entering through an open window and making his way toward the classroom where the teenager was attacking students.
Giamanco said he heard the gunman fire two shots into a set of doors before positioning himself near the classroom. A teacher, Cassidy Schutz, was already struggling with the shooter when Giamanco entered and fatally shot him.
Authorities have credited Giamanco and Schutz with helping stop the attack and saving lives.
The shooter, who is not being named according to The Daily Wire’s policy on mass shooters, killed three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, along with 25-year-old teacher Megan Lambert. Another student and a second teacher were wounded.
Giamanco has since described the shooting as the scariest day of his life and said he continues to grapple with the emotional aftermath. “I do want to believe that if he had more love in his life and better parenting, that this could have been prevented,” he told OPB.
He’s also expressed regret over not arriving sooner, while emphasizing that he does not want the attention to overshadow the victims and their families.
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