JUST IN: A teacher threw her phone, then tackled the shooter. An armed father finished what she started. In a Bend, Oregon, elementary school, two people stopped him before he could take more lives. Police on Friday identified 16-year-old Griffin J. John II as the suspect in the Silver Rail Elementary School shooting. He took the lives of three children and a teacher. The suspect had previously been a special needs student at the elementary school, according to the police. “Everyone wants to know why, including us,” Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said at a press conference on Oct. 17. “We may never get that full answer, but we want it.” Giamanco, a 36-year-old man whose children attend Silver Rail, had seen John firing at a truck before traveling toward the school. Giamanco parked and followed John inside armed with a .40 caliber pistol. He saw the suspect wrestling with the teacher, and shot him multiple times. John, identified by police as a Bend resident, approached the school from an undeveloped area. He crossed the street, threw his weapon over the fence, and hopped over. A witness in a red Toyota pickup confronted John, who then fired his weapon at the man at least three times. The man left the scene and made the initial 911 call, which Krantz came just before 1 p.m. John entered the school through an external set of double doors. He shot through the glass panes to gain access to the school. He killed three children, as well as a teacher, who authorities identified as Megan Lambert, 25. All victims were shot in a classroom that was a special needs classroom previously attended by John. The three children killed were aged 5, 8, and 11. Another child, 7, and a teacher, 54, were injured and rushed to the hospital in critical condition, Krantz said. The child has since been updated to serious but stable condition. The suspect was found dead inside the school minutes after the shooting was first reported, Krantz said.