He has two sons, according to a biography by the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association.
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Hanlin was on the forefront in talking opposition to a measure debated earlier this yr in Oregon that might increase background checks on gun gross sales.
Twenty students and six adults were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut by 20-year-old Adam Lanza.
“Any federal regulation enacted by Congress… shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies”.
The shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UHMP’-kwah) Community College also wounded seven.
Yet she thanked all for their outpouring of support. And after students were convinced they were indeed officers, they opened the door. She says he often rode a red bicycle.
Opponents of gun control have argued in the past that the best way to prevent mass shooting deaths is to have fewer – not more – gun restrictions, thus enabling people to defend themselves. His father’s still in shock. “My response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this”, he said.
We expect our children, moms and dads, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles to come home at the end of a day.
“I looked over outside and people were running away from the building so I knew exactly what had just happened”, she said”.
President Obama has ordered flags flown at half-staff.
“Our thoughts and prayers are not enough”.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, who has lived in Roseburg, said the great-granddaughter of one of his cousins died in the attack. Campus spokeswoman Ann Garten says she has no details on whether he graduated or what he studied.
The three patients who needed additional care were transferred to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend. Their conditions were also not available. And it reads as follows: ‘The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian.
President Barack Obama will make a statement on the deadly mass shooting at an Oregon community college.
Update, 5:20 p.m.: The Times has taken down its report that victims were asked to state their religion during the shooting.
The hospital is about 70 miles north of Roseburg.
The shooting occurred on the fourth day of classes at Umpqua Community College in this former timber town an hour’s drive south of Eugene. She played dead – and survived. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said the guns were purchased legally.
Sarena Dawn Moore, of Myrtle Creek, was 44 years old.
Stacy Boylan, the father of Anastasia Boylan, who was wounded, said she told him the gunman singled out Christians.
Sheriff John Hanlin said during a Thursday night briefing at a fire station near the Roseburg campus.
Officers responded and found the gunman on campus.
Hanlin first joined the force in 1989 and is now serving his second term as Douglas County sheriff.
Authorities have said Christopher Harper-Mercer killed nine students at the college.
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But the message from this rural southern Oregon community to the nation was unified and clear.
