A female teacher at the Oregon elementary school where four people were killed in a shooting on the institution's picture day is being hailed a hero for tackling the gunman to the ground.
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Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said the unidentified Silver Rail Elementary School teacher threw her cellphone at the gunman, 16–year–old Griffin John II, and then 'tackled him and fought to take the firearm from him.
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The teacher was not injured but her 'incredible' actions 'almost certainly helped prevent more bloodshed,' Krantz added.
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Three children aged five, eight and 11 were killed in the attack, as well as 25–year–old teacher Meghan Lambert.
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Joe Camarlinghi, the father of a third–grader at Silver Rail Elementary, said the tragic shooting on Thursday coincided with the school's annual picture day.
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Parents had sent their children off to school with wide smiles, ready for the camera.
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Instead of celebrating the occasion, they spent hours waiting to find out if their kids were alive.
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As they gathered for the hopeful reunification, some parents realized that those school pictures would be the last ones ever taken of their children, Camarlinghi said.
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'I would use the word sickening,' Camarlinghi told The Oregonian on Friday.
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'You are seeing the faces of parents you've seen at pickup all feeling the same thing: is my child safe?'
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In addition to the four shot and killed by John, another child – a seven–year–old who uses a wheelchair – and 54–year–old educational assistant Becky Drury were injured in the shooting.
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It was school picture at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday when the massacre broke out
Meghan Lambert, 25, of Bend, was the teacher killed in the elementary school shooting in Oregon
Becky Drury, right, a 54–year–old educational assistant, was injured in the shooting, as was a seven-year-old child who uses a wheelchair
Camarlinghi praised hero dad Kaylub Giamanco, 36, who ran into the school to stop John's rampage.
'Doing what he did, saving the lives that he did,' Camarlinghi told the outlet.
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Krantz said that Giamanco had 'undoubtedly saved people' with his 'quick thinking' to follow the shooter into the school.
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'I don't think we can underestimate or underappreciate that courage,' Krantz said.
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The police chief also lauded the teacher who was 'willing to stand and fight for her children' as 'incredible.
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'We all recognize that is true heroism,' Krantz said.
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'We don't see that a lot in society.'
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On Friday, Drury's husband asked for privacy during an 'unimaginably difficult time.'
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'The kindness and concern shown to our family and everyone affected mean more than we can express,' he said in a statement to NBC News.
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John fired as many as 15 shots during the shooting and had 44 left when he was shot dead, according to police.
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Griffin John II, 16, who killed three children aged five, eight, and 11 at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday is pictured with his mother Shauntai Nickerson
Silver Lake Elementary in Bend is pictured on Friday afternoon in the wake of Thursday's shooting that killed three students and a teacher
The shooter fired on everyone inside a special education class, where he himself was a student when he attended the school as a young child.
Police said that John was so intent on targeting his former class that he ran around to the back entrance after being fired upon while trying to go in through the front.
John, who was not enrolled in a Bend public school at the time, traveled to Silver Rail Elementary on foot.
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The route is being investigated.
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He threw the Maverick 88 12–gauge pump–action shotgun over the fence before jumping over but found himself blocked from entering.
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He then ran to the back entrance and blasted his way in through a 'safety vestibule' system designed to keep children at the school safe from shooters.
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Law enforcement remained unsure as to how John obtained his ammunition, saying the investigation was 'very active.'
Giamanco's wife Kelsey and brother Kyle, along with several of his friends, confirmed he was the hero who intervened by running inside the school.
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He holds a concealed carry permit and is friends with the family of the seven-year-old in the wheelchair who was wounded.
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Griffin was shot dead minutes after he began his rampage by Kalub Giamanco, 36, (pictured) a dad of two children at the school who heard the gunshots as he drove home for his lunch break
Bend Chief of Police Mike Krantz praised the heroic dad and teacher during a press conference on Friday
John, who looked gangly with a patchy mustache and goatee, could be seen staring into the camera with a sullen glaze in a haunting photo posted by his mother Shauntai Nickerson last month.
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Nickerson told a TV station in 2020 that she was pleased students were going back to the classroom because her son was struggling with distance learning during Covid lockdowns.
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I think it will be great for Griffin, because I am not certified teaching a special needs student,' she told KTVZ 21.
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'And I think it will be great for my son to get the help that he needs from the skilled teachers that he needs to get it from.
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The future murderer was in the Nurturing Empathy Safety and Trust program, which helped special education students 'experiencing intensive behavioral and social skills challenges.'
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John used his mother's shotgun to carry out the massacre, which police said was bought about the time of his 16th birthday.
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Nickerson insisted to reporters who confronted her outside her home in Bend that her son was 'a good boy' and she would have stopped him if she could.
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Police raided his family's home on Thursday night, seizing computers and other electronic devices.
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Family was said to be cooperative.
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Rhoam Summer (left) was named as one of the victims of Thursday's shooting.
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He is pictured with his mother
The first victim of Thursday's shooting was named as five–year–old Rhoam Summer by his father, Kelik Summer.
Summer wrote on Facebook: 'Today has been the worst day of my life.
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My son Rhoam was killed in a school shooting.
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'We are broken and lost, but are surrounded by friends and family who are keeping us safe.
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Lambert, of Bend, was identified by police and family on Friday at a press conference.
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