The weeping mother of the crazed teen gunman who carried out a mass shooting at an Oregon elementary school insisted her son was  a good boy  and that she would have tried to prevent the massacre if she could.

Shauntai May Nickerson, the mother of 16-year-old Griffin J. John, waved off reporters on the porch of her apartment complex as she smoked a cigarette and cried, the New York Times reported.

The mother insisted John - who killed three students and one teacher at Silver Rail Elementary School on Thursday - was  a good boy, he really was  and said  I miss him. 

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3 Oregon school shooter Griffin J. John seen with his mother Shauntai Nickerson in a photo posted to Facebook on Sept. 10, 2026. Facebook/Shauntai Nickerson

3 A person places flowers at a makeshift memorial on the other side of Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Ore., on Friday. AP Photo/Haven Daley

3 Community members grieve during a candlelight vigil at Drake Park in Bend, Ore., on Oct. 15, 2026. Getty Images

 I'm so sorry, I wish I could have done something. I'm sorry for their loss,  she said, referring to the parents of those killed, according to CNN.

 If I could have prevented this, I would have,  she said, the Times reported.

John was armed with a pump-action shotgun bought by his mom when he opened fire in Silver Rail Elementary's special education classroom, where he was once a student.

Nickerson, who CNN reported works as a health aide at a local nursing home, told the outlet there were no warning signs - but wouldn't say how he got access to the deadly firearm.

A hero girl dad, Kaylub Giamanco, followed the John into the school building's special education room and fatally shot him to put a stop to the terrorizing teen's attack, according to police and his relatives.

John first threw his Maverick 88, a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, over the fence of a playground of the Bend school around 1 p.m. and hopped over, sources said.

The gun-wielding madman then tried to enter through the school's front door but was blocked
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