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Hero dad who took down school shooter speaks out: 'I was supposed to be there'

The father of two who took down a gunman in an Oregon school shooting last week is speaking out for the first time about how he ended the deadly rampage.

Kaylub Giamanco recounted to Oregon Public Broadcasting in an interview published Friday how he crawled through the shattered front doors of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, swung open the door to a classroom and saw a teacher struggling with the gunman.

"I can tell you that I genuinely feel like I was supposed to be there," Giamanco, whose two daughters attend the school, told OPB.

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