“If they said they were Christian, he shot them in the head”, Willis said her granddaughter told her.
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The man killed by police after he shot nine people dead at an Oregon community college was a shy, awkward 26-year-old who was fascinated with shootings, his own social media postings and neighbours have revealed.
Mr Cooper, who was in his fourth day of college when he was shot, was described as “sweet and compassionate” in a family statement read out by police. While she lay bleeding on the floor, the gunman called out to her, “Hey you, blond woman”, her mother said.
Dietz was taking classes at the same college as her daughter, who was unhurt in the shooting, Stryk said. She had posted on Facebook about softball, country music, sausage pancakes and the movies she liked, including “Happy Feet”. 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.
America’s gun violence goes deeper.
Obama signed the proclamation at the White House on Friday.
Oregon’s top political leaders refrained from directly talking about gun control in the wake of the mass shooting Thursday on the campus of Umpqua Community College. “Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight”.
Eibel had recently graduated from Roseburg High School and was studying chemistry at Umpqua Community College. He was going to take his brown belt test next week, and loved dancing and voice acting and playing Ingress with his older brother, Cody.
Students, staff and faculty are evacuated from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.
Authorities released the names, ages and brief biographical information about the nine people who died at a Friday news conference. He loved Future Farmers of America, and volunteering at Wildlife Safari in nearby Winston, Ore., and the Saving Grace animal shelter in Roseburg, his family said in a statement.
Roseburg has about 22,000 residents, and Umpqua isn’t a traditional college.
He also wouldn’t talk about why the shooting happened, saying, “It’s really too early to tell what the motive was”.
“I don’t know how we are going to move forward with our lives without Quinn; our lives are shattered beyond fix”, the family said.
“Gun owners have rights under the law”.
He says it’s impossible to identify mentally ill people likely to perpetrate mass shootings ahead of time. The only thing the USA can do, he explained, is ensure they don’t have an arsenal available “when something in them snaps”.
“In Oregon, this is a hunting state, and firearms are popular”, Hanlin said. Investigators found another seven guns at the apartment he shared with his mother. “Almost like a tantrum, like a kid….” She says he often rode a red bicycle.
Mercer previously lived in the Los Angeles-area suburb of Torrance with his mother.
“Then he shot and killed them”.
Skarlatos gained fame when he helped subdue a man who boarded a train with a rifle, a pistol and a box cutter.
The user’s last torrent upload was on Tuesday (local time) and was entitled “This World Surviving Sandy Hook BBC Documentary 2015”, according to the website.
The women range in age from 18 to 34.
The gunman’s death means officials will never definitively know what compelled him to carry out the attack at the Roseburg campus, about 180 miles south of Portland. The average age of its 13,600 students was 38 during the 2013-2014 school year.
An aunt of an Army veteran hit by several bullets said he tried to stop the gunman from entering the classroom.
Chris Mintz spoke to ABC News from his hospital bed Friday. “He came back home and said he was going back to school”, Noble said.
Three people with gunshot wounds to the head were transferred to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, he said.
“I said to the teacher, ‘We got to get out of here.
Just himself”, said Alex Frier, a stage manager at the college who said Harper-Mercer built sets for theater performances last semester.
There was a girl still missing her high school softball season, a 19-year-old considering a career in medicine, a young man fresh out of rehab who made his mom so proud when he started college this week.
“He was a quiet kid”, Ms Sandlin said. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, said that Carnes is the great-granddaughter of his first cousin.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Ben Garrett said Harper-Mercer was in the Army for a little over a month at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, starting on November. 5, 2008.
Garrett did not say which standards Harper-Mercer failed to meet. Recruits also must score highly enough on a multiple-choice test covering science, math, reading comprehension and other topics.
On Thursday, two wounded people were treated in the emergency room and released, he said.
Police recovered four weapons at the scene, including three handguns and a long-range rifle, according to reports. Those killed and wounded were found in at least two classrooms. He appeared to have at least one online dating profile.
The accounts on those sites were linked to an email address associated with Harper-Mercer.
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. One was an assistant professor of English at the college. One surgery patient was discharged, he said. Gray says the other two are expected to survive, but one remains in critical condition.
Two officials said that after the shooting, the gunman’s family told investigators that he suffered from mental health issues and had sought treatment.
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However, Douglas County sheriff John Hanlin told reporters on Saturday that the state medical examiner had determined that Mercer died of an apparent self-inflicted wound.
