911 Audio Captures Oregon Father’s Vow Before He Shot Silver Rail Gunman, Ending 4 Killings
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Updated · Fox News · Nov 4
911 Audio Captures Oregon Father’s Vow Before He Shot Silver Rail Gunman, Ending 4 Killings
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 4
Summary
Newly released 911 audio records Kaylub Giamanco telling a dispatcher, “I have a gun, and I will shoot them right now,” as he rushed toward Silver Rail Elementary in Bend on Oct. 15.
The call captures the attack unfolding in real time: Giamanco reports the gunman entering on the south side and warns that people are being shot while the dispatcher tells him officers are en route.
Police later said the 36-year-old father entered with a legally kept .40-caliber pistol and found teacher Megan Lambert struggling with the 16-year-old attacker after she threw her cellphone at him and tackled him.
Three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and Lambert, 25, were killed; another child and a teacher were wounded before Giamanco shot the gunman multiple times.
Giamanco later told Oregon Public Broadcasting he feared he would die going inside and apologized to families he could not save, while Lambert’s family publicly thanked him as a hero.
How did a radicalized teen bypass elementary school security to unleash tragedy before an armed father defied 911 orders to intervene?
What dark online extremist networks fueled a former student's deadly rampage at a quiet Oregon elementary school?
When protocols demand waiting, does a father's split-second decision to charge an active shooter expose fatal flaws in school defense systems?
Anatomy of the Silver Rail Elementary Mass Shooting: 911 Failures, Civilian Intervention, and Oregon’s Gun Law Debate
Overview
On October 15, 2026, 16-year-old Griffin J. John II breached Silver Rail Elementary’s perimeter with a shotgun gifted by his mother, firing at a pickup truck before shooting through locked glass doors to enter the school. Inside, he killed four and injured two in a special-needs classroom. Learning specialist Cassidy Schutz bravely tackled the gunman, creating a crucial opening for parent Kaylub Giamanco, who entered and neutralized the shooter with his handgun. The tragedy led to deep community grief, public scrutiny of 911 protocols, calls for stronger gun safety laws, and a surge in concealed-carry permit applications as the school prepared to reopen with enhanced security.