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'There's babies in there': Hero dad who stopped Oregon school shooter shares his story

📍 Oregon, US·🕐 2d ago·2 outlets

Kaylub Giamanco, the man praised as a hero for fatally shooting a gunman at a school in Bend, Oregon, last week, is speaking out for the first time about the moments leading up to the shooting and how he is grappling with the aftermath. The 36-year-old carpenter, whose two daughters attend Silver Rail Elementary School, told Oregon Public Broadcasting that it was happenstance that he was passing by the school at that moment. He said he had decided to go home for lunch that day instead of eating the food he had packed. As he drove by the elementary school, he saw a "man in black" holding a…

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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Bend, Oregon school shooting and the same dad who stopped the gunman, as a follow-up interview, with no conflicting facts.

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Also reported by mirror.co.uk (found in GDELT's list of news articles)

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