John J. Griffin, Bend, Oregon teen id as 16-year-old school shooter who killed 4 at Silver Rail Elementary School before killed by hero dad bystander.
A 16-year-old teen shooter who shot and killed 3 elementary school children and a teacher in Bend, Oregon has been identified as John J. Griffin.
Griffin, a local Bend, Oregon resident was armed with his mom’s pump action shotgun when he opened fire inside Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend on Thursday – killing three kids, the youngest being a 5-year-old, and a teacher, sources told the nypost and three senior law enforcement officials told NBC News.
Hero father bystander who shot & killed 16 year old Bend, Oregon shooter identified
The shooter, 16, critically injured another student and teacher before being shot dead by a hero bystander, Kaylub Giamanco since identified as being the father of two young girls attending the school.
Griffin is alleged to have shot a 7-year-old boy in a wheelchair in the wheelchair along with shooting a second teacher. Both were critically injured and rushed to hospital. Their condition remains unknown.
The teen killer began firing after entering a special education class. It is unclear if it was specifically targeted or chosen at random.
No known motive
Follow up reports revealed the 16-year-old shooter using a ‘pump action’ shotgun his mother had recently purchased during Thursday’s attack. It remained unclear how the teen acquired his mother’s shotgun.
Police raided Griffin’s family home on Thursday night, seizing computers and other electronic devices. His parents were said to be cooperative.
A motive for the shooting remains unclear, and authorities would not confirm on Thursday night whether the suspect knew anybody at the school or if he had attended it when he was younger.
Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, which is more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Portland, had 459 enrolled students as of last year, according to the Oregon Department of Education and a staff of 40. The school serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade.
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