NEWPORT, Oregon - The twisted Oregon school shooter who killed three kids and a teacher at his old elementary had an alcoholic father who beat the boy's mother and threatened her with a knife before he was even born - forcing her to move across the state, according to court documents.

Griffin John was let out of prison early after he was sentenced to 48 months behind bars for the attack on wife Shauntai Nickerson - and he begged a judge to lift a restraining order against him so he could  see his son grow up  in the coastal town of Newport, docs obtained by The Post said.

Eight months later, Griffin J. John II was born - but his mother and father didn't stay together long. Within months, Nickerson moved her son three hours west to Bend, Oregon.

6 Silver Rail Elementary shooter Griffin J. John II, 16, seen in a photo posted on Facebook on Sept. 10, 2026. facebook/Shauntai NIckerson

6 Silver Rail Elementary on Oct. 16, 2026, a day after John shot and killed three children and a teacher at his old school in Bend, Ore. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect

Police say Griffin John II used his mom's shotgun to blast his way through the door at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend last Thursday. He targeted his special education classroom, killing 5-year-old Rhoam Summer, an 8-year-old and an 11-year-old, along with teacher Megan Lambert, 25.

A 7-year-old in a wheelchair was shot in the face and hospitalized, and a 54-year-old teacher was also wounded.

John, 16, was then killed by a heroic armed parent who confronted him in the school.

Back in their hometown in eastern Oregon, both the John and the Nickerson families have rough reputations.

6 John Griffin II's yearbook photo from around 2020. Silver Rail Elementary School

6 Crime Scene Investigators gather evidence at Silver Rail Elementary School on Oct. 15, 2026. Getty Images

The elder Griffin John revealed in letters to a judge after his domestic violence arrest that he had a history of alcohol abuse and had been in jail  several times in the past. 

When he was let out early, he only stayed free for a few years.

He was arrested in 2012
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