Oregon dad recounts confronting school shooter

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Oct 24, 2026
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The first time we're hearing from the father
who killed a teenage gunman ending a deadly rampage
at an Oregon elementary school last week.
Caleb Giammanco's two daughters attend Silver Rail
Elementary. The 36-year-old carpenter dropped them off
that morning at lunchtime. He passed
by the school and saw someone carrying a long gun shoot
into a pickup truck. Then there's a person
mowing the school's lawn. He says panic fled into his brain.
He grabbed a handgun from his truck
He went after the gunman, first telling 911 operator,
I have to go in, people are going to die.
He sat down with Oregon Public Broadcasting
to describe what happened next.
I started hearing children pleading for their lives,
and then I started hearing gunfire,
and I just started army crawling faster and faster, and I told myself,
this is probably the last thing that I'm ever going to do.
I found my opportunity and I seen a teacher
on the left struggling with the gunman on the right
with the rifle and I knew that they were they were both side to me
and I knew that he did not
know that I was there and so at that point I swung the door out
and open and I stepped in and I fired
I called my mom and I told her you know I called
her and I was like mom I just I just had to take
the life of what I think might be a child
because he went into my daughter's school with a gun.
That gunman killed three children and a teacher.
Jim Manko says he's sorry he could not save
everyone. We've credited him with saving numerous other lives that day.
