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 critically wounded a 54-year-old teacher and shot a seven-year-old child who uses a wheelchair in the face, both of whom are still in hospital.
The first victim of the shooting has been named as a five-year-old boy called Rhoam Summer. The identities of her teacher and two classmates are not
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