{"id":17587,"date":"2026-10-25T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17587"},"modified":"2026-10-24T23:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T23:01:39","slug":"man-who-stopped-school-shooter-tells-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17587","title":{"rendered":"Man who stopped school shooter tells his story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incredible. If you hit the link the story includes a video interview with Kaylub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"248\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaylub.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17588\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/10\/23\/bend-oregon-kaylub-giamanco-silver-rail-elementary-school-shooting\/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2026\/10\/23\/bend-oregon-kaylub-giamanco-silver-rail-elementary-school-shooting\/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us\">In an exclusive interview with OPB, Giamanco described the series of seemingly insignificant decisions that brought him to that intersection at 12:58 p.m. that day \u2014 the same time a 16-year-old carrying a shotgun approached his children\u2019s school. It was the packed lunch he didn\u2019t eat, the masonry shop where he didn\u2019t stop, the bolts he needed but didn\u2019t buy, and the gun he says had just been \u201ccollecting dust\u201d in his truck console.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Passing by the school that day, Giamanco spotted someone carrying a gun, followed him into the school, and then shot and killed the teen who fired shotgun rounds into a special education classroom. The shooter killed three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher. Two other people were seriously injured. Police credit Giamanco with saving many lives at the school of more than 400 children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But before all that, there were years helping a single mother as the oldest of seven children, there was the motorbike accident when he saved his brother\u2019s life with a makeshift tourniquet, and the informal military training he\u2019d gotten from Iraq War veterans. A lifetime that shaped Giamanco, he believes, and prepared him for what he would do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible. If you hit the link the story includes a video interview with Kaylub. In an exclusive interview with OPB, Giamanco described the series of seemingly insignificant decisions that brought him to that intersection at 12:58 p.m. that day \u2014 the same time a 16-year-old carrying a shotgun approached his children\u2019s school. It was the &#8230; <a title=\"Man who stopped school shooter tells his story\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17587\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man who stopped school shooter tells his story\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stuff","category-great-people","category-heroism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17591,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17587\/revisions\/17591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}