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Four people, including three children, were killed on Thursday after a 16-year-old gunman opened fire at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, in an attack police say was cut short by a teacher who tackled the shooter and a passing father who ran into the building to confront him.

Police said the attacker, identified as Griffin J John II, shot his way into the school, firing as many as 15 rounds once inside a classroom, before he was stopped. He was carrying roughly 44 additional rounds of shotgun ammunition at the time. Officers said John had previously attended the school as a special educational needs student, and that his motive remains unclear. Officers have carried out a search warrant at his home, and continue to investigate how he obtained the weapon and made his way to the school, believed to be on foot.

Inside the classroom, an unnamed female teacher threw her phone aside and wrestled with the gunman on the floor in an attempt to take the gun from him. She was not injured, and Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said her intervention “almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed.” Moments later, a father who had been driving past the school with a legally concealed .40-calibre pistol in his vehicle ran inside and shot the attacker dead. Krantz did not name him, but the man’s family identified him to US media as Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter who had just finished lunch when he saw the suspect firing on a vehicle outside, then shooting through a window to force entry. His brother told NBC News that Giamanco grabbed his pistol and “decided to go in after” the gunman, firing “multiple times” and killing him.

Giamanco’s mother, Kenda Freeman, said her son called her moments afterward, sounding “traumatised.” “He said ‘a man went into my daughter’s school,'” she recalled, “and, um, shot kids. And he said, ‘and I looked at him point blank, and I shot and killed him, mum.'” She told him he had saved many lives; he replied, she said, “mum, I couldn’t save them all.”

Officials named two of the four fatalities at a Friday news conference: Meghan Lambert, a 25-year-old teacher, and Rhoam Summer, who was five years old. Lambert’s family said she had always wanted to teach in the district where she grew up and was “compassionate and had a huge heart,” adding that “she always fought for the underdog and those with special needs.” Summer’s grandfather, Bryan Jolly, told the New York Times the family was devastated, describing his grandson as “very bright and very mischievous and very fun-loving, and totally without fear.” The families of two other child victims, aged eight and eleven, asked that their names not yet be released. Two more people were hurt: a 54-year-old teacher remained hospitalised, while a seven-year-old student was in serious but stable condition.

President Donald Trump called Giamanco a “great hero” and said the toll could have been “much worse,” adding: “It’s a terrible thing, but thank goodness for a man that had a gun and knew how to use it.” Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, without naming him, said those who intervened “carry a heavy emotional burden and I just want you to know that my thoughts are with you as well.”

Source: BBC News