Attempting to kill init means that something tried to kill PID 1. That's... abnormal outside of a shutdown. But it can be normal during shutdown. So uhh... yeah: if it continues to be a problem then it needs to be reported and fixed by your distribution. What distribution are you using?
I see kernel panics at shutdown most often on Arch-based distros after updating system packages.
It sucks when it happens during shutdown but it's typically not going to cause other problems... except perhaps not automatically booting if you wanted to reboot instead of shutdown.
A kernel update, if it's done right, shouldn't cause a panic. But not every distro does updates right.
If you know the old version and the new version then it might be useful to reach out to the Mint community and see if they're aware of issues like that.
Not sure how you searched but I assume you didn't use or know apt? How do you install packages in the first place? Through GUI or Terminal?
EDIT: I assume you use the Linux Mint GUI package manager. I can't find how to do this too, would need to search more detailed but I don't have enough time for this now, need sleep, don't have enough sleep.
Yes this is a kernel panic which occurs when something goes terribly wrong inside the system. This could be anything from broken software to defective hardware. You should observe if this happens regurlarly.
You could look at the package that's mentioned in the first line in Synaptic. The error message says it can't find a file. Fürst thing is do is check if that fike is actually there.
It seems the 'libpcre2-8-0' is installed and the first line in your first screenshot complains about that one. If it is not solved, run 'ldd /sbin/shutdown' and you should see where it expects libpcre2 to be. 'ls' that path and see if it is there. If it is, is it on another mount than root that gets unmounted too early or something? If it is not there, try reintalling the package, or see where the package puts that library file. If it is in the wrong place, use 'ln -s' to create a symbolic link to where shutdown expects it.