Father who killed Oregon school shooter describes anguish over children he couldn't save

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   Father who killed Oregon school shooter describes anguish over children he couldn't save

   BBC NewsPublished Oct 23, 2026Checked Oct 24, 2026

   “Watch: Bystander who stopped Oregon school shooter describes how he approached gunman A father who fatally shot a gunman at his daughters' school in the US state of Oregon has described his anguish over being unable to save more pupils after "hearing children pleading for their lives". Three students and a teacher were killed by a 16-year-old former student at Silver Rail Elementary School earlier this month. The attacker was then killed by Kaylub Giamanco. "I want to apologise for not saving their babies," Giamanco, who has been hailed as a hero, said of his thoughts for the parents of the children killed, in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) that aired on Friday. "The gratitude for saving people's children is awesome, but there were ones that I didn't save." Giamanco, 36, said he wanted to meet the victims' families and "cry with them and hold them". He credited a teacher who fought the attacker with giving him the chance to intervene without losing his own life. "I would love to give her a hug because that's a real true hero," he said. The students who were killed were all boys, aged five, eight and 11. They were among six people in total who were shot in a classroom at the school, police said. Alongside the teacher who was killed, another child and a teacher were wounded. Giamanco told OPB that the day of the attack began with breakfast and making packed lunches.”

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   Exposure to a School Shooting and Subsequent Well-Being

   National Bureau of Economic Research (Levine & McKnight)Published Dec 1, 2020Checked Oct 24, 2026

   “This paper examines the impact of school shootings on the educational performance and longterm health consequences of students who survive them, highlighting the impact of indiscriminate, high-fatality incidents.Initially, we focus on test scores in the years following a shooting.We also examine whether exposure to a shooting affects chronic absenteeism, which may play a role in explaining any such effect, and school expenditures, which may counteract it.We analyze national, school-district level data and additional school-level data from Connecticut in this part of the analysis.In terms of effects on health status, we focus on its most extreme measure, mortality in the years following a shooting.In this part of the analysis, we analyze county-level data on mortality by cause.In all analyses, we treat the timing of these events as random, enabling us to identify causal effects.Our results indicate that indiscriminate, highfatality school shootings, such as those that occurred at Sandy Hook and Columbine, have considerable adverse effects on students exposed to them.We cannot rule out substantive effects of other types of shootings with fewer or no fatalities.”

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   The Role of the Bystander in the Social Architecture of Bullying and Violence in Schools and Communities

   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (Twemlow et al.)Published Dec 1, 2004Checked Oct 24, 2026

   “Bullying is redefined from a triadic (bully-victim-bystander) rather than dyadic (bully-victim) perspective. Teachers, including administrators, and students can promote or ameliorate bullying and other forms of violence when in this social role. Cases are used to illustrate this phenomenon, including one in which a teacher is murdered. Data are presented from a study of teachers' perceptions of other teachers who bully students, suggesting that bullying of students by teachers and bullying of teachers by students is a factor in the aggravation of school bullying and violence that needs to be more openly discussed. An intervention in nine elementary schools involving 3,600 students is outlined to illustrate how a focus on reflective mentalizing and awareness of the importance of the helpful bystander role can promote a peaceful school-learning environment for students and teachers. The paper concludes with an outline for research into how communities and schools adopt bystanding roles when faced with complex problems like youth violence, and how they may avoid facing the problems by blaming law enforcement and educators.”

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   The Evolution of Active Shooter Response Training Protocols Since Columbine: Lessons From the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center

   Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (Martaindale & Blair)Published Apr 9, 2019Checked Oct 24, 2026

   “On April 20, 1999, two active shooters attacked Columbine High School. This attack became a catalyst that changed the manner in which law enforcement prepared for similar attacks at schools and other locations. Departments across the United States developed and adopted active shooter response training protocols. To assist law enforcement with this work, training centers were created including the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center. ALERRT was formed in 2002 and was named the national standard in active shooter training by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2013. To date, ALERRT has trained more than 130,000 first responders from over 9,000 agencies in active shooter response. This commentary leverages our extensive expertise as directors of ALERRT. Specifically, we discuss how training protocols have evolved over the last two decades to include active shooter response teams, solo officer response, medical intervention training, integrated response training, and civilian response.”

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   School shooting (Wikipedia)

   WikipediaChecked Oct 24, 2026

   “A school shooting is an armed attack at an educational institution, involving the use of a gun. Many school shootings are also categorized as mass shootings due to multiple casualties. The United States has had the highest number of such shootings, over 50 times as many as all other G7 nations combined between 2009 and 2018. School shootings have sparked political debate over gun violence, gun rights, gun control, and zero tolerance policies, especially in the United States. According to studies, factors behind school shooting include easy access to firearms, family dysfunction, lack of family supervision, and mental illness among many other psychological issues. The top motive of attackers was being bullied, persecuted, or threatened (75%), followed by revenge (61%), while 54% reported having multiple reasons. The remaining motives included an attempt to solve a problem (34%), suicide or depression (27%), and seeking attention or recognition (24%).”