Shauntai Nickerson and son John Griffin, Bend, Oregon 16-year-old school shooter targets special education class at Silver Rail Elementary School he previously attended. Teen shooter used ‘pump action’ shotgun his mom gifted him for his 16th birthday in August.
The mother of a 16-year-old teen gunman who shot up an elementary school in Bend, Oregon has told media that her son was a good boy.
The tragedy which left 4 dead, including 3 children and a teacher along with the shooter came just 2 months after the teen’s mother gifted her son a shotgun for his 16th birthday.
16-year-old shoots up his former ‘special education’ school with shotgun mom bought him for 16th birthday
16-year-old shooter targets previous special education class he used to attend
Shauntai May Nickerson, appeared in a picture posted on September 10 on her Facebook wall with her son, the alleged teen shooter, John J. Griffin II. The teen is accused of shooting and killing 5-year-old boy, Rhoam Summer, along with an 8-year-old and 11 year old and an unidentified teacher.
The teen also critically wounded a 7-year-old student in a wheelchair along with a 54-year-old teacher during an attack at Silver Rail Elementary School just on 1.p.m, Thursday.
John Griffin opened fire with a Maverick 88, a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, his mother had purchased for the teen upon turning 16 in August, law-enforcement stated, the nypost citing sources reported.
He first threw the deadly firearm over the fence at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend around 1 p.m. and hopped over, following a confrontation with a man idling in his parked vehicle in front of the school according to previous reports.
The teen then tried to enter through the school’s front door but was blocked by two bystanders.Griffin ran around to the school’s back and shot at the locks on the doors, which were specially designed to prevent school shootings, to break inside.
There, the teen gunman stormed toward the special education classroom, where he was once a student.
He was fatally shot by hero dad, Kaylub Giamanco, who saw Griffin enter the building with a gun while driving home for his lunch break. At the time, the dad’s two young daughters were at the school.
16-year-old shooter mom insists killer son ‘was a good boy’
Shauntai Nickerson and her son John Griffin, previously appeared in a 2020 article about students in the Bend-La Pine School District’s NEST program — a specialized program for students experiencing intensive behavioral and social skills challenges — returning to the classroom after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nickerson told KTVZ21 at the time that her 10-year-old son, whom she referred to by the first name ‘Griffin,’ was struggling with learning from home.
‘I think it will be great for Griffin, because I am not certified teaching a special needs student,’ Nickerson told the outlet. ‘And I think it will be great for my son to get the help that he needs from the skilled teachers that he needs to get it from.’
Speaking to press, Friday the mother insisted her son was ‘a good boy,’ adding, ‘he really was.’
‘I’m so sorry, I wish I could have done something. I’m sorry for their loss,’ the parent said, referring to the parents of those killed, according to CNN.
‘I miss him,’ she said of her son. ‘If I could have prevented this, I would have.’
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