Armed with multiple guns, Chris Harper Mercer, 26, walked in a classroom at th…
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‘I wish I was making that up, ‘ she will say, in reference to Bush’s afternoon remarks, ‘because it’s heartbreaking’. The weapons had been purchased legally over the past three years, a few by him, others by relatives, said Celinez Nunez, assistant field agent for the Seattle division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The gunman died following a shootout with police.
Markey said, “Without background checks, without any ability to know who is purchasing these guns, it can happen anywhere”. Nine people died and seven were wounded.
The one thing authorities repeated over and over again was that they were confused about the shooter’s motive. Was he treated? Did the school know of his condition and monitor his progress?
“This is a small town and everyone is affected”, Merkley said.
Willis, who visited her granddaughter in the hospital, says Boylan told her the shooter was asking students about their faith. “If they said they were Christian, he shot them in the head”, Willis said her granddaughter told her.
“And then he shot and killed them”, he said.
“All he was looking for was attention, and that’s not the way you should do it, period”, Bailey said. He left the Army a few years ago and was a part-time student at Umpqua, she said.
Another intriguing element in the investigation: The shooter is reported to have delivered “a box” to someone during the shooting.
Although authorities have disclosed scant information about the gunman, they appeared to be learning more about him and why he might have opened fire. “I don’t know what that’s about”.
“I thought President Obama overreacted”, Williams said. “There are a lot of people who hunt”. But a law enforcement source confirmed media reports naming the suspect as Chris Harper-Mercer, 26.
Hanlin, who has been with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office since 1989, was elected sheriff in 2009.
Hanlin reiterated that he will not officially speak the name of gunman.
“Everybody’s got to be covered”.
A man identifying himself as Ian Mercer, the gunman’s father, spoke briefly to a throng of reporters and camera crews outside his home in Los Angeles yesterday. “This isn’t how life is supposed to work and I am struggling to wrap my mind around the entire situation”, her cousin, Lisa Crawford, wrote on Facebook. But by December 11, 2008, he was discharged for failing to meet the minimum administrative standards.
“It is going to keep happening until we decide that we want them to stop”, she said.
Harper-Mercer attended El Camino College in Torrance from 2010 to 2012.
Steven Fisher, who also lives nearby, described Mercer as “skittish”. “I got a bad vibe from him”. The issue is the mentality of these people.
A MySpace page that appeared to belong to Mercer included several photos and graphics of the Irish Republican Army as well as a picture of Mercer holding a rifle.
Investigators have found no indication the shooter was linked with any organized groups.
The 10 people killed surpassed the death tolls from two previous mass shootings – a gun battle between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas, in May, and the rampage of a gunman at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, each of which claimed nine lives – to mark the deadliest incident of gun violence in the United States this year.
In an interview with ABC News, the younger Mintz said: “I just hope that everyone else is OK”.
Skarlatos gained fame when he helped subdue a man who boarded a train with a rifle, a pistol and a box cutter. “His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day”.
“You do start to worry about things that might be a target”, he said. Speaking at a White House news conference, he said he “won’t sign another shortsighted spending bill” and asserted that the USA can’t cut its way to prosperity. CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta said those three patients were women between the ages of 18 and 34.
She said that her son kissed her before he left for class Thursday morning.
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You won’t hear the president question gun free zones or the insanity of “security guards” who are unarmed.
