The heroic Oregon dad who ended a school šhσσtєr’s rampage cursed the deranged teen out after he shot him.
Kaylub Giamanco, 36, told CBS Mornings that after he’d shot 16-year-old Griffin J. John II in a classroom at Bend’s Silver Rail Elementary School on Oct. 15, the ɠυɳɱαɳ was still alive and trying to speak.
“I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. He had taken lives,” Giamanco recounted on Tuesday. “I said ‘F–k you’.”
“I don’t know what he was about to say and it didn’t matter,” he added. “It didn’t matter. I just knew he had taken the lives of innocent little babies, you know, 5, 8 and 11.”
John had just m𝑢rdєred three students and a teacher with a shotgun when Giamanco snuck after him into the school with his personal handgun and shot the 𝘬iᩚller down.
Giamanco was hailed as a hero for the daring encounter, which saved untold innocent lives – perhaps even his own daughters’, who were enrolled in the school.
But springing into action wasn’t even a second thought when the brave dad happened to drive by on his lunch break and saw John firing a shotgun at passing cars before descending on the school.
“It was like fight or flight, and something clicked, and I just, I analyzed the situation. I knew something was up,” Giamanco said. “All the emotions flood out of me. I just kind of went into a mission mode.”
The hero rushed into the school and slipped inside before finding John in a classroom grappling with a teacher who had tackled him.
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“I knew that he wasn’t paying attention to me, so it gave me the opportunity to swing the door open and step in and complete my mission, so to speak,” Giamanco said, adding that the teacher’s courage gave him “the split second of having two people side-by-side.”
Once he shot John, the twisted teen thrashed about, “trying to regain control” and “struggling with his w𝔢𝔞𝔭𝔬η” as he tried to speak. He finally died after Giamanco ignored his attempts at final words.
But despite feeling assured in his actions that day, the dad said those few moments still haunt him and that at night he can hear “children’s screams and what it sounds like for them to plead for their life.”
“I know exactly what that audio is in my brain,” he said. “That’s where, again, when I’m alone at nighttime and ready to go to bed, I don’t always go to bed. Sometimes I get trapped in my brain.”
John’s motive behind the attack still remains unclear, but he attended the school’s special education classes when he was younger.
Giamanco, who worked as a carpenter, has taken time off from his job and is considering starting a non-profit dedicated to school security – explaining he now feels a responsibility to use the platform he’s been given.
“For me, when you are given these powers and you don’t use them and someone gets hurt, then it is your fault,” he said. “So I feel, to me, that means, if I have these abilities in life to be a protector, if I’m not using them and people do get hurt, that is my fault at the end of the day.”
