A mom who survived a school shooting over two decades ago tragically found herself coaching her son through the same trauma when a deranged gunman stormed into an Oregon elementary school Thursday, according to a report. Michelle, who did not share her last name, sent a bone-chilling string of texts to her boy assuring him he and his brother would survive the bloodshed — and repeatedly reminding him: “I love you so much.” [snip] Michelle’s fifth-grader called her from his Apple Watch at 1 p.m. Thursday — just one minute after authorities were called after teen gunman Griffin J. John II fired his first shot outside Silver Rail Elementary School. “Mom, there’s a shooter,” the boy told her, a terrifying message he confirmed in a text moments later, first scrambling to write “shroterr” before following up with, “shooter at school.” [snip] “Everything is going to be okay. This happened to me too, and I am okay,” she wrote to the boy, which was the first time she ever revealed to her kids the trauma she went through, she told CNN.Michelle’s son called her to warn her about the shooting minutes after the first shot was fired. CNNMichelle assured her son that he would survive the tragedy. CNN “I love you so much. It’s going to be okay,” Michelle wrote. “They will load you on the bus and it will be kind of slow but we will get to you, I promise.” [snip] Michelle said she has continued to live with the trauma of the shooting — she suffers from panic attacks and always finds herself looking for the nearest exit in public spaces. She even felt an anxious nagging feeling when her sons went to school every day. “Every single time I dropped them off, and I would see them walk in the front doors, I would get a pit in my stomach thinking, ‘I hope I see him again,’” she told CNN through tears. [snip] Investigators are still probing a motive for John’s massacre, but law-enforcement sources say he went to extreme lengths to carry out the bloodshed. John’s weapon had been legally purchased by his mother around the time of his August birthday, sources said. (*) Full article: https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/us-news/mom-who-survived-school-shooting-coaches-son-through-oregon-attack/ Post navigation BOMBSHELL: Federal Agents Went DUMPSTER DIVING to Get DNA from Ilhan Omar and Her Family Prior to Raid – Investigation Extends FAR Beyond Immigration Fraud – Likely Coming Indictments Will Be “Stunning” These Newly Exposed Documents are Ilhan Omar’s Worst Nightmare!
