‘Grooming underage girls’: Investigation into Oregon school shooting turns focus onto satanic cult

The focus in an investigation into the Bend, Oregon, school shooting that left three children, an adult, and the attacker dead now includes a violent satanic cult, according to reports.

According to my sourcing, federal investigators are seeking to confirm whether the 16-year-old Bend, Ore. school sh—ter (Griffin John), who killed four women and children, was radicalized by the 764 terror cult. This is a leading suspicion.

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— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 21, 2026

A report from PJMedia cited revelations from independent reporter Andy Ngo as well as Oregon Public Broadcasting that were saying investigators are following leads to determine if the shooter was associated with the “notorious 764 cult.”

A former special education student at Silver Rail Elementary School identified by authorities as Griffin J. John II, 16, shot his way through a school-shooter deterrent door and killed three children, ages 5, 7, and 11, and a 25-year-old teacher.

Two others were injured, and reports said, “Federal authorities have prioritized prosecutions of the leaders of this cult, which they describe as ‘an international child exploitation enterprise known as ‘764,’ a nihilistic violent extremist (NVE) network.'”

PJMedia explained last year several leaders of the cult were prosecuted for international child exploitation.

Ngo reported just weeks ago that a “transgender member of a violent satanic death cult network was sentenced to 77 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting and terrorizing underage girls around the world and grooming them into mutilating themselves and torturing animals to death.”

JUST IN: The heroic bystander who took down a 16-year-old gunman during a deadly Oregon elementary school shooting has been identified as 36-year-old Kaylub Giamanco.

Giamanco, whose two daughters attend Silver Rail Elementary School, saw the suspect shoot at a truck before… pic.twitter.com/9LVuWooFWK

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 17, 2026

PJMedia noted, “The 764 cult lives on Discord, gaming, and dark web chat sites. The group has the objective of ‘seeking to destroy civilized society through the corruption and exploitation of vulnerable populations, which often include minors. The 764 network's accelerationist goals include social unrest and the downfall of the current world order, including the United States Government,’ according to the feds.”

The shooting happened at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend.

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