27 Oct 2026
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Bend, Oregon, shooter previously said he was bullied and told police he was assaulted at home
Police reports describe incidents in recent years in which Griffin John II told police he was punched by a man who had been seeing his mom and hit by his friend’s sister.
- 1. The 16-year-old boy who killed three children and a teacher, injuring two other people, at a school in Bend, Oregon, was assaulted twice in recent years, once while he was trying to defend his mother, police records show.
- 2. In one incident, he told his sister he had been bullied at school, according to police, who wrote that he “likely had a cognitive disability.”
- 3. John told police that the man threatened to beat him and his mother up, according to the police report.