Hero Dad Kills Oregon School Shooter 911 Call Released
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What happened
On October 15, 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco saw an armed 16-year-old approaching Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where Giamanco’s two daughters attended, and called 911 while retrieving a legally owned handgun from his truck. In the roughly 80-second call later released by Deschutes County 911, he told the dispatcher someone was at the school with a gun, that he had a gun, and that he would shoot the attacker if he had to; the dispatcher told him not to intervene and to wait for officers. Giamanco entered the school, where teacher Cassidy Schutz was already struggling with the gunman, and fatally shot him. The attacker killed three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and 25-year-old teacher Megan Lambert; another student and a second teacher were wounded. Giamanco’s daughters survived. Authorities credited Giamanco and Schutz with helping stop the attack.
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ONE-SIDED THIS WEEK.
Only right-leaning outlets have covered this story in the last two days;
New York Times reported it on 2026-10-23.
Omitted — what each side leaves out
Unpacked
Left-leaning coverage has not reported the Bend school shooting or the father's 911 audio. Right-leaning coverage says Kaylub Giamanco told a dispatcher he would shoot the gunman, then entered Silver Rail Elementary after being told to wait for police, and killed the attacker. Those accounts frame him as a hero and record that the gunman killed four people. A reader who only follows the silent side would not know an armed parent stopped the gunman while help was still en route.
The right-leaning outlets also split on what to put first. The dispatcher talking over Giamanco and ordering him to wait leads the Daily Wire account. The vow that he will shoot them "right now" leads the Fox News write-up.
How long after Giamanco hung up did the first officer reach the classroom?
Bottom line
Left-leaning readers have no version of Daily Wire's 911 audio, in which a dispatcher tells Giamanco "Don't do anything" before he enters the school and kills the gunman.
The receipts — 5 facts one side's coverage lacks
- The released 911 recording lasts 78 seconds
- A teacher threw her cellphone at the gunman and tackled him before Giamanco fired
- Giamanco entered the school through an open window
- Megan Lambert's family said they think Giamanco is a hero
- Giamanco used a .40-caliber pistol he legally kept in his vehicle
The Right View
Daily Wire and Fox News led with the newly released 911 audio, quoting Giamanco’s vow to shoot the gunman, his frustration as the dispatcher talked over him and told him to wait, and his decision to enter the building anyway. Both outlets frame him as a hero dad, recount his later Oregon Public Broadcasting interview (panic, army-crawling toward gunfire, regret he could not save every child), and note police and Lambert’s family crediting the intervention. Fox also ran adjacent headlines tying the stop to gun-control debates. Center-outlet CBS News reported the same recording, named casualties, and the sequence—Giamanco driving by, calling 911, then killing the 16-year-old shooter—without the political wraparound. Coverage across these outlets agrees on the call’s core lines, the death toll, and that Giamanco and Schutz stopped the attack.
Our Take (balanced)
The story is substantive: it is anchored in a public 911 recording released by Deschutes County 911, named people and a named school, a Bend police news conference, and on-the-record interviews, not a single unverified claim. Established: the Oct. 15 shooting; four dead and two wounded; Giamanco’s call and subsequent fatal shooting of the 16-year-old gunman; official credit to Giamanco and teacher Cassidy Schutz. Giamanco’s interior recollections (what he heard, what he told himself) are his account and are consistent with, but not fully independently documented by, the audio and police summary. No left-leaning outlet has reported this. Watch for the completed official investigation, any fuller 911 or body-camera record, and further statements from police or victims’ families.
4 sources
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