John J Griffin, 16, killed three children aged five, eight, and 11, and their teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on the afternoon of Thursday Oct. 15

He also critically wounded a 54-year-old teacher and shot a wheelchair bound seven-year-old girl, in the face

Newly emerging image shows killer five weeks before he went on a shooting rampage at an elementary school, staring into a camera with a murderous gaze

Griffin began firing after entering a special education class, where he himself was a student when he attended the school as a young child

The fatalities identified are five-year-old Rhoam Summer, as well as teacher and volleyball coach Megan Lambert, 25 – identities of the two other students have not been disclosed

John J Griffin, 16, killed a teacher and three children at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday and injured two others before a parent gunned him down. Griffin seen [left] in photo posted by his mother Shauntai Nickerson [right], last month was a former special education student at the school.

Five weeks before he went on a shooting rampage at an elementary school, a teenage mass killer stared at a camera with a murderous gaze.
John J Griffin, 16, killed three children aged five, eight, and 11, and their teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon. He also shot a 54-year-old teacher and a wheelchair bound seven-year-old boy, both in the face. The survivors remain hospitalized with critical injuries.
The first victim of the shooting has been identified as five-year-old Rhoam Summer who just started kindergarten last month. Teacher and volleyball coach Megan Lambert, 25, was another victim identified.
The identities of two other students killed have not been released. 
Griffin began firing after entering a special education class, where he himself was a special education student as a young child.

Five-year-old Rhoam Summer, [photo], has been identified as the first victim of the Thursday’s school shooting in Bend, Oregon. She had just started kindergarten a month earlier

Teacher and volleyball coach Megan Lambert, [photo], 25, was another fatality identified

The shooter according to law-enforcement sources went to extreme lengths to carry out his evil carnage and make his way to his target: his former special-needs classroom.
Griffin first threw his Maverick 88, a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, over the fence at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend around 1 p.m. Thursday and hopped over himself, sources aid.
He then tried to enter through the school’s front door but was blocked by two bystanders, including a dad of two little girls at the school who noticed the property breach while driving by on his way home for lunch.
The suspect fired an estimated 15 rounds during the shooting, Bend Police Chief Mike Krantzz said Friday, and another 44 remaining rounds of ammunition were located at the scene.

Griffin was shot dead minutes after he began his rampage by Kalub Giamanco, [photo], a dad of two children at the school who heard the gunshots as he drove home for his lunch break, then intervened by running into the school

Griffin”s mother Shauntai Nickerson insisted to reporters who confronted her outside her home in Bend that her son was ‘a good boy’ and she would have stopped him if she could. 
Back in 2020, Nickerson told media that she was pleased students were going back to the classroom as her son was struggling with distance learning during Covid lockdowns.
‘I think it will be great for Griffin, because I am not certified teaching a special needs student.’
‘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.’
Griffin used his mother’s Maverick 88 12-gauge pump-action shotgun to carry out the massacre, which police said the gun was bought about the time of his 16th birthday.
Nickerson, 43, a medical aide at Touchmark Living Centers is no stranger from l has a long list of traffic violations and was charged with DUI at 1.37am on July 29, 2018, by local police in Bend.
She was also convicted of harassment in 2023, but a second charge of fourth-degree assault from the same incident dismissed.

People leave a family meeting area following a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School on Friday in Bend, Oregon

Memorial bouquets left at Silver Lake Elementary School in Bend a day after Thursday’s mass shooting that killed three young students and a teacher, leaving another teacher and a special needs student critically injured

He used it to blast his way through a ‘safety vestibule’ system designed to keep children at the school safe from school shooters.
Griffin’s motive is unknown, but he attended the school as a child before moving on to the local high school. 
Police raided Griffin’s family home on Thursday night, seizing computers and other electronic devices. Family was said to be cooperative.
Griffin was shot dead minutes after he began his rampage by Kalub Giamanco, 36, a dad of two children at the school who heard the gunshots as he drove home for his lunch break.
Giamanco’s wife Kelsey and brother Kyle, along with several of his friends, confirmed he was the hero who intervened by running inside the school.
He holds a concealed carry permit and is friends with the family of the seven-year-old in the wheelchair who was wounded. 
Giamanco shot Griffin dead within moments of the massacre beginning just before 1pm on Thursday.