Law enforcement in Roseburg, Oregon, are asking people to focus not on the gunman, but on the victims and the heroes.
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On Friday, Mintz was anxious about the other people who were hurt and killed and the witnesses who will be traumatized.
Mintz was one of seven people who were injured in the attack.
Chris Mintz, the Army veteran and Umpqua Community College student who charged the shooter at the Oregon college, is awake and recovering at a hospital after having seven bullets removed from his body.
News of Mintz’s injuries quickly reached his hometown in North Carolina, where his family was relieved to hear he survived.
As he lay wounded on the floor, he kept uttering it was his son’s sixth birthday.
He was studying to become a fitness trainer, according to Business Insider.
A North Carolina native, the 30-year-old Army veteran had moved to Oregon to be closer to his son, but was forced into action when shooter Chris Harper Mercer opened fire on campus.
In an interview with ABC News, he said: “I just hope that everyone else is OK”.
“I’m just so happy that he’s OK”, Bourgeois said.
Mintz was not just a person at the wrong place at the wrong time. The gunman then shot him at least twice more and went into the classroom, where he kept firing. Over the next few days, don’t be surprised to see it head into six figures. He has undergone surgery and is awake and smiling in hospital, images show.
He also praised Mintz’s character, saying “he’s not a quitter”.
A blog post urged readers to watch the online footage of Vester Flanagan shooting two former colleagues on live TV in Virginia, while another lamented materialism as preventing spiritual development. His family says he was a hero to them even before he was shot.
But a nation left tired by increasing gun violence only wants you to remember one of the young men. Thursday was his fourth day back. “Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight”.
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Daly has the right idea. The shooter in this case deserves oblivion.
