Secrets of Oregon school shooter Griffin John’s broken family — and violence that began before he was even born

Source: New York Post

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.