A frantic 911 call from the man who fatally shot a 16-year-old shooter who killed four people at an Oregon elementary school last month was released Tuesday to The Associated Press through a public records request.
In a tense call lasting a little more than a minute, Kaylub Giamanco told the 911 operator there’s “someone with a gun” at the school his daughter attends. “I have a gun and I will shoot them right now,” said Giamanco, who was driving home for lunch and saw the shooter at Silver Rail Elementary School.
The operator implores him “don’t do anything, let me get an officer there.” They talk over each other and Giamanco sounds increasingly frustrated by the exchange. “I’m about to go kill this kid,” he said.
A few seconds later he says the shooter is entering the building. The operator asks if the shooter is firing and Giamanco says yes. The operator tries to get more information but the call ends.
A 16-year-old had shot his way through locked doors to get into the school in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15, killing three children — ages 5, 8, and 11 — and a teacher in a special needs classroom. Another student was critically injured and a teacher was injured and hospitalized.
A teacher tried to stop the shooter, Griffin J. John II, before Giamanco entered the school through an open window, opened the door of the classroom and fired his gun, dropping the shooter to the floor.
As Giamanco was racing toward the building, a teacher inside the school confronted the shooter in an effort to stop his progress. She threw her phone at the attacker, tackled him and wrestled with him for control of the weapon. Giamanco's arrival stopped the struggle.
He said the teacher was “a real true hero” because her actions gave him an opening to shoot the attacker.
The teacher, a certified learning specialist, had not been previously identified, but last week, Bend-La Pine Schools identified her as Cassidy Schutz and shared her statement. She said there were no words to describe the sadness she feels following the shooting.
“This is not a story. This is a horrific and heartbreaking tragedy, and it is our real lives,” Schutz wrote. “My thoughts are with those who were lost, their families, those who were hurt, and those who were there that day. My heart is with you.”
Schutz said her focus is on the families, the school “and my own healing.”
A second teacher in the classroom, Becky Drury, previously released a statement saying she never had a chance to shelter the children inside. She had tried to shut the door behind her, but the shooter was already there.
“Before I could do anything more, he shot me at close range and I fell to the ground,” Drury said. She was shot in her left hand and right arm. Unable to get up, she said she pretended to be dead in the hopes he would not shoot her again.
Giamanco said in a Oregon Public Broadcasting interview that he regrets not arriving soon enough to save everyone who was killed and injured.
After imploring the 911 operator to send help, Giamanco climbed into the school through a window and peeked into a nearby classroom. He saw Schutz and the shooter in profile, giving him an open shot.
“I felt like I was the last line of defense between him and the rest of the children,” Giamanco said.
He stepped into the room and fired his gun. The teacher ran from the room and the shooter reached for his shotgun.
“I looked at him and I shot him two more times to make sure that he couldn’t move, because I was afraid of him shooting anybody else,” he said. “If I wasn’t there, I just don’t know what would have happened.”
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 Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026 in Bend, Ore. (Saskia Hatvany/Oregon Public Broadcasting via AP)
MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge in New York temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration plans to deport Afghans detained in the United States to Afghanistan or Pakistan on Tuesday, after advocates and dozens of members of Congress warned that their lives would be at risk.
The government told the court Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no chartered or commercial flights for deporting Afghan nationals to Afghanistan or to Pakistan at least to the end of the week. Judge Valerie Caproni’s order, which expires Saturday, asks all officials to adhere to that. ICE books the flights weeks in advance.
A letter led by California Democratic Rep. Scott Peters and signed by 65 other members of the House and Senate said they were “extremely concerned that sending vulnerable people” would expose them to “persecution, torture, or even death.” The letter was sent Monday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Immigrant rights organizations have also warned that those deported could face retaliation from the Taliban.
Thousands of Afghans fled persecution and feared for their lives after helping the U.S. military and aid groups in Afghanistan.
According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, the U.S. planned to deport Afghan immigrants on Monday on flights from Louisiana, where ICE has immigrant detention and processing facilities, to Pakistan.
The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries other than their own. In some cases, it has resorted to third-country deportations when removal to their countries of origin was not possible, like when formal diplomatic relations were absent, as is the case with Afghanistan’s Taliban government. In other instances, third-country deportations have been used as a deterrent.
Advocates and attorneys said that more than 80 detained Afghans had contacted them after ICE notified them that they could be deported this week via Pakistan. Among them are women, a police officer, members of religious minorities, and people whose family members served in the U.S. military. Most fled Afghanistan because of persecution and do not have legal representation, according to Human Rights First and AfghanEvac, a nonprofit organization that advocates for immigrants.
Before the judge signed her order, Zia Ahmad Takal, deputy spokesman of foreign ministry, said “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan expresses its serious concern" about the reports that U.S. plans to transfer Afghans to Pakistan.
Takal called the U.S. to make sure that decisions or actions are based on rights and “legitimate demands” of those involved, and said “third-party countries should not engage in dealings concerning the fate of another nation’s citizens.”
“Today is a good day,” Shawn VanDiver, president at AfghanEvac, said at a news conference. “But I want to be honest with you, this is a reprieve, not a resolution. We haven’t stopped this fight forever. This is just a pause.”
Savitri Arvey, director of policy, refugee and immigrant rights for Human Rights First, said individuals returned to Afghanistan “face grave, systematic dangers,” including arbitrary detentions, executions, public flogging and retaliatory violence.
“The stakes were very, very high,” she said, and noted that women and girls faced severe restrictions in Afghanistan, like systematic denials of education, employment and public speech.
Advocates expressed their concerned about the role of the Pakistani government in facilitating the returns to Afghanistan and the fact that there is no information about the arrangements that the U.S. has made with Pakistan.
“We celebrate today, but we’re getting right back to work tomorrow, continuing to make sure through our flight tracking that none of these flights are taking off,” Arvey said.
Abdul Qahar Afghan contributed from Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
FILE - Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., vice chair of the New Democrat Coalition, speaks with members of the press outside the West Wing of the White House on March 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
FILE - A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
