CBS Los Angeles, citing Mercer’s stepsister, reported that he was born in England and moved to the United States as a young man. The station reported that Mercer had identified Torrance as his hometown on a MySpace page that apparently belonged to him, as well as on a hiking website, All-Trails, in September 2012.
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“(Harper-Mercer would) sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light”.
Harper-Mercer was also the son of an interracial couple, and his Spiritual Passions dating profile says he was looking for a female of a similar ethnicity.
A 26-year-old man suspected of killing nine people in a shooting at a community college in Oregon today is a former resident of Torrance, where he attended a school for students with learning disabilities and emotional issues, according to a published report. He died after exchanging gunfire with responding officers.
He said: “I will not name the shooter”.
Alleged gunman in Oregon college shooting identified as Chris Harper-MercerDouglas Country Sheriff John Hanlin said during a press conference late Thursday evening that while police know the identity of the shooter he would leave it to the medical examiner’s officer to officially give the media his name. If they said yes, they were shot in the head.
A few students were in tears as they left. “I don’t know what to do”.
Jessica Chandler of Myrtle Creek, south of Roseburg, was at the fairgrounds desperately seeking information about her 18-year-old daughter, Rebecka Carnes.
“This is a tragedy and an anomaly”, she said.
Here is a video of sectarian violence between Loyalist Ulster Protestant Christians against Catholic Christian Republican children and parents going to the Holy Cross school in Ardoyne, Northern Ireland, 2001.
His enthusiasm for mass shootings was visible more recently as well.
Before the Roseburg shooting, a posting on the message-board site 4chan included a photo of a crudely drawn frog used regularly in Internet memes with a gun and warned other users not to go to school Thursday in the Northwest. In the post, the shooter is referred to as “beta” and is egged on by anonymous posters.
The school has about 3,000 students. In recent years, officials have tried to promote the region as a tourist destination for vineyards and outdoor activities. The last upload on the blog was Wednesday. when a documentary about the Newtown shooting was posted.
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He describes killer Vester Flanagan as a man who “wanted the world to see his actions”, before adding: “Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight”. Brian Melley contributed writing from Los Angeles.
