Newz(AP) β In the middle of an October day, a 16-year-old boy tossed a shotgun over a low chain-link fence. There was a playground and a broad grass field leading to an elementary school he once attended. Inside were hundreds of children, including a handful attending a special needs class β just like he had.
It was driven by the first of at least three people who would risk their own lives to try to stop him, according to accounts from police and school officials. The driver yelled, and the boy started shooting. He hit the truck at least three times, but the driver wasnβt hurt β he drove down the road and called 911.
Nearby was another driver, Kaylub Giamanco, a 36-year-old carpenter. He saw the boy shooting at the red truck and heading toward the school, Silver Rail Elementary. The boy walked along the school to a locked door.
He blasted through its glass panes with the shotgun. Giamanco drove into the parking lot. He had a gun too β a .40-caliber pistol legally stored in his vehicle.
In the classroom next to the broken door there were teachers and four children. Another teacher had taken a first-grader to the bathroom. The boy entered a classroom next to the door.
He pumped the shotgun and pulled the trigger. The teacher and the first-grader who had gone to the restroom heard the gunshots. They hid under a table in a nearby office.
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