Wife of Dad Who Killed Oregon School Shooter Had a Bad Feeling When She Checked His Phone’s Location

Kaylub Giamanco, Silver Rail Elementary SchoolCredit: Facebook; Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty

Kaylub Giamanco and his wife Kelsey Giamanco are opening up about the Oct. 15 mass shooting at their daughters’ school in Bend, Ore.

Kaylub Giamanco has been hailed a hero by family and local authorities after chasing the gunman into the school and killing him, stopping the shooting

Kelsey Giamanco told CBS this week that she became worried when she saw her husband’s phone location at their daughters’ school without explanation

Kaylub Giamanco’s wife is opening up about her husband’s dramatic effort in stopping a mass shooting from becoming worse at their daughters’ elementary school last month.

Kaylub, 36, has been hailed a hero by the local Bend, Ore., community since the Oct. 15 shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School, where the father of two chased a teenage gunman into his daughters’ school before tracking him down and killing him.

A 25-year-old teacher and three students — a 5-year-old, an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old – were killed in the shooting, which came to an end when local police say Kaylub followed the gunman into a classroom and shot him.

Kelsey Giamanco, Kaylub’s wife, told CBS News this week she was initially confused when she saw her husband’s phone location at their daughters’ school, because she was the parent the school would typically call if their girls needed to be picked up early.

Then Kelsey says she started to feel like something was wrong.

Moments later, Kaylub called and told her what happened.

Kaylub was driving past their daughters’ school on his way home for lunch when he saw someone with a gun forcing his way into the school, both the father and local authorities have recounted in recent weeks. Kaylub called 911 but then decided to run into the building himself after hearing gunshots, audio from the emergency dispatch revealed.

Kaylub GiamancoCredit: Facebook

The Giamancos’ children, ages 5 and 10, survived the shooting. But Kaylub said he experienced “mixed feelings” in the hours after killing the gunman and seeing other families grieve.

“I was really sad other people didn’t get to hold their children that night,” the father tells CBS. “But it felt good to just squeeze them and know that they were going to still be here and they could grow up to be, you know, beautiful young women.”

Kaylub told CBS he was able to sneak up and set his sights on the gunman because a teacher was in the midst of fighting off the shooter after throwing her cellphone at him.

After killing the gunman, Kaylub told the outlet he called his mom and then his wife.

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“Kaylub has a genuine heart and he loves his community and his family and his children,” Kaylub’s mother, Kenda Freeman, previously told CBS. “He’s just a good person, in general.”

His mother added: “I told him he was a hero, he did what he had to do, and that he did the right thing, and that I was proud of him and that he was a hero and he saved a lot of lives. And he said, ‘Mom, I couldn’t save them all.’”

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