
拉斯·拜纳姆 这位俄勒冈州男子上周在一所小学结束了一场致命的枪击暴行,他击毙了那名青少年枪手。他说自己是孩子们的“最后一道防线”,并为没有更早赶到、挽救所有孩子而感到遗憾。
RUSS BYNUM The Oregon man who fatally shot a teenage gunman to end a deadly rampage at an elementary school last week says he was the children’s “last line of defense” and that he regrets not arriving soon enough to save them all.
凯卢布·贾曼科的两个女儿就读于发生10月15日袭击事件的银轨小学。他说,他觉得自己辜负了遇难者的家庭。
Kaylub Giamanco, whose two daughters attend Silver Rail Elementary, where the Oct. 15 attack occurred, said he feels like he failed the families of those who died.
“我要为没能救下他们的孩子道歉,这大概是我现在最痛心的事,”贾曼科在周五发布的俄勒冈公共广播电台采访中说。“大家对救下孩子们表示感激,这很令人感动。但也有我没救下的孩子。” 上周,在俄勒冈州本德市的这所学校里,三名儿童——分别为5岁、8岁和11岁——和一名教师遇害。这名枪手是该校前学生、16岁的格里芬·J·约翰二世,他用霰弹枪轰开上锁的门,冲进一间特殊教育教室实施攻击。另有一名学生重伤,一名教师受伤住院。
“I want to apologize for not saving their babies, that’s probably the biggest thing for me right now,” Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting in an interview published Friday. “The gratitude for saving people’s children is awesome. But there were ones that I didn’t save.”Three children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — and a teacher were killed at the school in Bend, Oregon, last week when a former student there, 16-year-old Griffin J. John II, blasted his way through locked doors with a shotgun and attacked a special needs classroom. Another student was critically injured and a teacher was injured and hospitalized.
警方称,另一名教师曾向袭击者扔手机并与其扭打,随后贾曼科跟随枪手进入大楼,将其击毙。
Police say another teacher threw her phone at the attacker and wrestled with him before Giamanco shot and killed him after following the gunman into the building.
贾曼科说,事发当天早上他送女儿们到校后开车去上班。几小时后,这位36岁的木匠准备回家吃午饭,再次路过学校。
Giamanco said he dropped off his daughters at the school that morning before driving to work. A few hours later, the 36-year-old carpenter was passing the school again as he was heading home for lunch.
他说,他看见一个穿黑衣、拿长枪的人向一辆皮卡和一名在校园修剪草坪的人开枪,随后枪手翻过围栏朝教学楼跑去。
He said he spotted someone wearing black and carrying a long gun fire shots into a pickup truck and at a person mowing the school’s lawn before the shooter climbed a fence and headed toward the school building.
贾曼科说,“恐慌涌上脑海。” 他从卡车中控台拿出一把.40口径手枪,一边拨打911一边追赶枪手。他请求调度员派人支援,然后挂断了电话。
Giamanco said “panic fled into my brain.”He grabbed a .40-caliber handgun from his truck’s center console and went after the gunman as he dialed 911. He asked the dispatcher to send help before hanging up his phone.
“我说‘抱歉,我必须进去。会有人死的,’”贾曼科在采访中说。
“I said ‘I’m sorry I have to go in. People are going to die,’” Giamanco said in the interview.
随着他越靠近大楼,吉亚曼科说,他趴在地上,用肘部支撑着身体在地面上爬行。
As he got closer to the building, Giamanco said, he lay on his stomach and used his elbows to crawl across the ground.
“就在那时,我开始听到孩子们在为生命乞求,”他说。“接着我听到了枪声,我就开始加快匍匐前进的速度。我对自己说:‘这可能是我这辈子要做的最后一件事了。’”吉亚曼科说,他通过一个被打碎的窗户进入了学校。透过附近一间教室的门缝向内张望,他看到一名教师正在与枪手扭打。他说,他正对着他们俩的侧面,这给了他一个清晰的射击角度。“我觉得我是他和其他孩子们之间最后一道防线,”吉亚曼科说。他推开门,走进教室,开枪射击。
“That’s when I started hearing children pleading for their lives,” he said. “And then I started hearing gunfire and I just started army crawling faster and faster. And I told myself: ‘This is probably the last thing that I’m ever going to do.’”Giamanco said he entered the school through a window that had been shot out. Peeking into a nearby classroom, he saw a teacher grappling with the shooter. He said he faced them both in profile, giving him an open shot. “I felt like I was the last line of defense between him and the rest of the children,” Giamanco said. He swung the door open, stepped into the room and fired his gun.
枪手和教师都倒在了地上。教师冲出房间,而枪手伸手去拿他的霰弹枪。
Both the gunman and the teacher dropped to the floor. The teacher bolted from the room as the shooter reached for his shotgun.
“他正慌乱地抢夺武器,”吉亚曼科说。“我看着他,又开了两枪,确保他动弹不得,因为我怕他再射击其他人。”
“He was scrambling for his weapon,” Giamanco said. “I looked at him and I shot him two more times to make sure that he couldn’t move, because I was afraid of him shooting anybody else.”
警方表示,吉亚曼科合法地将枪支放在卡车上,并将功劳归于他和那名徒手与枪手搏斗的教师,认为两人挽救了生命。枪击案发生一天后,唐纳德·特朗普总统称吉亚曼科是“伟大的英雄”,他“干得漂亮”。教室里的第二名教师贝基·德鲁里周三在一份声明中说,她被近距离的霰弹枪击中,左手几乎被打断,随后无助地趴在地上装死。
Police have said Giamanco was carrying his gun legally in his truck and have credited him and the unarmed teacher who confronted the gunman with saving lives. A day after the shootings, President Donald Trump said that Giamanco was a “great hero” who “took care of business.”A second teacher in the classroom, Becky Drury, said in a statement Wednesday that she lay on the floor, helplessly playing dead, after being struck at close range by a shotgun blast that nearly severed her left hand.
那名与枪手搏斗的教师尚未被公开身份。吉亚曼科告诉公共广播机构,她是“真正的英雄”,她的行动为他击毙袭击者创造了机会。
The teacher who struggled with the shooter hasn’t been publicly identified. Giamanco told the public broadcaster that she’s “a real true hero” whose actions gave him an opening to kill the attacker.
“我无法告诉你夺走一条生命是什么感觉……但我可以告诉你,我真心觉得我本该在那里,”吉亚曼科说。“如果我不在那里,我真的不知道会发生什么。”拜纳姆在佐治亚州萨凡纳发回报道。
“I can’t tell you what it feels like to take a life … but I can tell you that I genuinely feel like I was supposed to be there,” Giamanco said. “If I wasn’t there, I just don’t know what would have happened.”Bynum reported from Savannah, Georgia.