John Shockley,William John Thomas Shockley was born October 16, 1989, in Danville, Kentucky to John Shockley and Renee Cummins, and has one younger brother, Tim Shockley, and a younger half-sister, Jamie Benedict. His father later died in January 2007. In July 2009, he married his girlfriend of a year, Brittany Allen and they are still happily married.