Armed Oregon Dad Who Engaged School Shooter Reveals His Final Words to the Killer Before Putting Him Down
Kaylub Giamanco recounted the horrific day he confronted an armed gunman at his children’s school for the hosts of “CBS Mornings” and revealed what he told the killer before shooting him.
Giamanco was driving past Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15 when he spotted a 16-year-old with a shotgun opening fire.
Inside the building, Griffin J. John II had already murdered three children –ages 5, 8, and 11 — along with a teacher, and was forcing his way into another classroom.
WARNING: The following videos contain vulgar language that some may find offensive.
🚨 LEGEND – HERO Dad Kaylub Giamanco just shared what he told the Bend, Oregon School Shooter right before taking his life:
“F*** You”
The next time some lib says that only the Cops are qualified enough to carry a firearm, SHOW THEM THIS.
Mr. Giamanco is just an everyday civilian, yet he was able to save DOZENS of innocent children’s lives with BRAVERY, TRAINING, and a CONCEALED CARRY WEAPON.
Well Done Kaylub! 🇺🇸
— Jay Costa (@JayCostaUSA) November 10, 2026
Giamanco’s own daughters went to that school.
“I kind of went into mission mode,” he told host Norah O’Donnell.
He dialed 911, told the dispatcher he was armed and would not wait for police. Then he went in after the gunman.
“I crawled into the building and peeked into the window of the classroom,” he said “I saw him struggling with the teacher.”
That brief struggle, Giamanco said, gave him the opening he needed.
Authorities on Tuesday released the 911 call made by Kaylub Giamanco as he rushed to help during the October 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.
The 16-year-old gunman killed a teacher and three students before Giamanco, whose two daughters were inside the school, confronted and fatally shot him.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 3, 2026
After the first shot, the wounded teenager was still moving, still reaching for his weapon, and trying to speak.
“He was still struggling, trying to regain control,” the hero dad said. “And I was just taught that if an assailant can move, they can shoot. And so, you know, we had to finish the situation, unfortunately. Not that I wanted to take a life, but it was necessary to prevent the loss of life.”
“Did he say anything to you?” TV host Gayle King asked him.
“When he was struggling for his weapon, he went to say something, and I just — I didn’t want to hear what he had to say. He had taken lives.”
King asked, “What did you say to him?”
Giamanco responded, “It told him, ‘f*** you.'”
Giamanco then ended the threat so the man could not hurt anyone else. Authorities have brought no charges against Giamanco.
Focusing on the profanity misses the point entirely. The real significance lies in the refusal to grant a mass murderer of elementary school children a final monologue.
Giamanco had already witnessed the horror; he had heard the children’s screams and seen the immediate aftermath of the assault.
Allowing the shooter a moment to explain, apologize, or perform remorse would require treating him as a person whose voice still mattered. It didn’t.
The only relevant reality left was that the gunman remained an active threat, and Giamanco neutralized that threat.
This sequence reads like the kind of decisive action that used to define classic cinema, back when writing still treated competence and moral clarity as virtues: An ordinary parent, armed only with a legally owned handgun from his vehicle, intervening in seconds, not waiting for permission from authorities.
A father saw children in danger, acted, and then refused to let their murderer have the last word. That single-minded focus is exactly what stopped the killing.
Hero dad Kaylub Giamanco revealed what he said before he stopped the elementary school shooter in Bend, Oregon.
“F— you,” he told him. After the gunman killed three children, Kaylub didn’t want to hear him speak.
He still hears the screams of the children at night when he closes his eyes.
He hopes to start a nonprofit focusing on mental health and school security for kids.
God bless him. Pray for the families. 🙏
— Caleb Parke (@calebparke) November 10, 2026
Giamanco has said he cannot unhear the screams of the children he did not reach in time. He has described mixed feelings when he held his own children afterward, knowing other parents would not hold theirs.
Those details do not diminish what he did, but they show the cost of having to do it.
The alternative would have been to remain outside while the attack continued.
He chose otherwise, and the last thing the shooter heard was the appropriate response to what he had already done.
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