The father of two who took down a gunman in an Oregon school shooting last week is speaking out for the first time about how he ended the deadly rampage.

Kaylub Giamanco recounted to Oregon Public Broadcasting in an interview published Friday how he crawled through the shattered front doors of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, swung open the door to a classroom and saw a teacher struggling with the gunman.

Kaylub Giamanco, who fatally shot an attacker who had killed three students and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School, poses for a portrait on Oct. 22, 2026 in Bend, Ore.

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"I can tell you that I genuinely feel like I was supposed to be there," Giamanco, whose two daughters attend the school, told OPB.

Giamanco, a carpenter and lifelong Bend resident, said he was driving home on Oct. 15 when he saw a person in all black, armed with a gun, jump over the fence at the elementary school.

"That's when panic fled into my brain," he told OPB.…