Oregon father shot school gunman in elementary school attack

🗞️ Story file #886

Oregon father shot school gunman in elementary school attack

Oct 23, 7 PM ET to Oct 26, 6 PM ET

20outlets carried it
🫏8 · 1 · 11🐘left · center · right
2.9 dayson the front pages
19front pages at once, at its peak
29 minof TV captions
4radio newscasts
3 of 3parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 23, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: BBC
Oct 23, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 24, 1 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 24, 4 PM ETpeak: on 19 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 23, 7 PM to Oct 26, 6 PM ET (peak 20), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “I HAVE TO GO IN” “pleading for their lives” “There's babies in there” “No, there's children, there's babies in there” 2 “I was supposed to be there” “I Stepped In, and I Fired” “I didn't save everybody” “I have to go in”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 praises teacher

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Hero dad who took down school shooter speaks out: 'I was supposed to be there'” → “Hero dad who took down school shooter speaks out: 'I was supposed to be there' Kaylub Giamanco killed the gunman in the Bend elementary school shooting.”
BBC (2 wordings): “Father who killed Oregon school shooter describes anguish over children he couldn't save” → “Father who killed Oregon school gunman describes anguish over children he couldn't save”
NBC News (2 wordings): “‘I didn’t save everybody’: Hero who stopped Bend school shooter is haunted by encounter” → “‘I didn’t save everybody’: Hero who stopped shooter is haunted by encounter”
PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “Oregon father who killed school shooter says he regrets there were children he didn't save” → “'There's babies in there': Oregon father describes stopping school shooter”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Dad who shot school gunman says kids were ‘pleading for their lives’” → “Hero dad who killed Oregon school shooter recounts first hearing gunfire”
The Sun (2 wordings): “'I HAVE TO GO IN' Dad who shot Oregon gunman recalls children 'pleading for their lives'” → “'I HAVE TO GO IN' Dad who shot Oregon gunman recalls children 'pleading for their lives' HE said he 'was in full panic, like, "No, there’s children, there’s babies in there".'”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Hero Dad Who Killed Oregon Elementary School Shooter Breaks Silence. What He Saw Was Horrifying.” → “Mass Shooting Hero Dad Who Killed Oregon Elementary School Shooter Breaks Silence. What He Saw Was Horrifying. Matt Vespa”

Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Father who killed Oregon school shooter speaks out for first time: ‘I have to go in’ Oct 23, 8 PM ET
ABC News Hero dad who took down school shooter speaks out: 'I was supposed to be there' Oct 23, 9 PM ET
CBS News Hero dad who stopped Oregon school shooter shares his story Oct 23, 4 PM ET
NBC News ‘I didn’t save everybody’: Hero who stopped Bend school shooter is haunted by encounter Oct 23, 6 PM ET
PBS NewsHour Oregon father who killed school shooter says he regrets there were children he didn't save Oct 23, 6 PM ET
The Independent Dad who shot school gunman says kids were ‘pleading for their lives’ Oct 23, 6 PM ET
USA Today 'There's babies in there': Hero dad recounts stopping Oregon shooter Oct 23, 10 PM ET
Yahoo News Carpenter who stopped Oregon school shooter describes crawling toward gunfire Oct 23, 8 PM ET
BBC Father who killed Oregon school shooter describes anguish over children he couldn't save Oct 23, 7 PM ET
Just the News Man credited with saving lives in Oregon school shooting reveals more details about his actions Oct 23, 1 PM ET
The Sun 'I HAVE TO GO IN' Dad who shot Oregon gunman recalls children 'pleading for their lives' Oct 24, 7 AM ET
Breitbart Father Who Killed Oregon School Attacker Describes Tense Seconds Before Pulling Trigger Oct 23, 8 PM ET
IJR Bend Shooter’s Rescuer Regrets Not Saving Four Oct 24, 6 AM ET
New York Post Hero dad who killed Oregon school shooter recalls hearing children ‘pleading for their lives’ as massacre unfolded Oct 23, 3 PM ET
PJ Media Oregon Dad Who Stopped School Shooter Praises Teacher, Describes the Face-Off Oct 24, 2 PM ET
Red State Kaylub Giamanco, the Hero Father Who Saved Lives in the OR Elementary School Shooting, Speaks Out Oct 24, 2 PM ET
The Daily Caller Hero Who Stopped School Shooting Praises Teacher Who Fought Back Oct 24, 4 PM ET
The Daily Wire Hero Dad Who Took Down School Shooter Reveals What He Heard Before Pulling The Trigger Oct 23, 7 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit HEROIC DAD SPEAKS OUT! Armed Oregon Father Reveals Terrifying Moment He Took Down Elementary School Shooter That Killed Three Children and a Teacher: “I Stepped In, and I Fired” (VIDEO) Oct 24, 9 AM ET
Townhall Hero Dad Who Killed Oregon Elementary School Shooter Breaks Silence. What He Saw Was Horrifying. Oct 24, 8 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN28 min

Fox News50 s

MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER GRAPPLES WITH THE AFTERMATH CNN, 7 min
MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER GRAPPLES WITH THE AFTERMATH. Kaylub Giamanco | Stopped School Shooter CNN, 6 min
MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER DESCRIBES WHAT HAPPENED CNN, 4 min
FATHER WHO STOPPED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER SPEAKS OUT CNN, 3 min
"HERO" DAD IN OREGON SPEAKS OUT CNN, 2 min
MAN WHO KILLED OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTER ON HOW HE CONFRONTED THE GUNMAN CNN, 2 min
"HERO" DAD IN OREGON SHOOTING CNN, 2 min
"HERO" DAD SPEAKS OUT CNN, 87 s