Thursday was his fourth day back.
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Family members of the dead were posting messages about their lost loved ones on social media.
The school has a policy of no guns on campus and did not feel the need for an armed security presence, Umpqua Community College interim President Rita Cavin said. “Our lives are shattered beyond fix”.
In total, 10 people were killed in the attack and nine wounded. He died in a shootout with police.
The Coast Guard said the 735-foot (224-meter) ship named El Faro had taken on water and was listing at 15 degrees near Crooked Island, one of the islands most battered by the hurricane.
Those who knew the shooter described a deeply troubled loner.
The second victim was Jason Johnson, who earlier told his mother that he was determined to turn his life around after struggling with drug addiction.
Scroggins said he was grateful his daughter survived Harper-Mercer’s attack. He’s a grown man. He shouldn’t be having a tantrum like a kid.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama said Friday he won’t sign another temporary government funding bill after the current one expires December. 11, insisting that congressional Republicans and Democrats work out a long-term budget deal with the White House.
At a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting, former student Sam Sherman said Roseburg was a “poor town, a mill town”.
“Some of you guys are alright”.
On a torrents streaming site and blog that appeared to belong to Mercer, posts referenced multiple shootings and downloads included several horror films and a documentary on a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
As CNN reports, when Mintz heard gunfire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College, his thoughts were about others.
The incident began with the gunman shooting a professor in the head, then, one by one, ordered students to stand up and state their religion before reportedly shooting them.
Janet Willis told The Associated Press her granddaughter, Anastasia Boylan, was in the classroom.
Speaking to NBC News, Sheila Brown said her nephew Mintz “tried to protect a few people” during the shooting. But no one will tell McDaniel who shot him.
A concrete canopy collapsed Saturday on a group of band students who had gathered outside a North Carolina high school shortly before a competition, leaving 25 people injured, authorities said. “A lot of my classmates were going every which way”. Then, he hit the floor, looked up at the gunman, and told him it was his son’s birthday, at which point the gunman shot two more times. He tried to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in and consequently was shot three times.
Skinner and Mintz’s cousin Derek Bourgeois of North Carolina said Mintz is a fitness buff who practices recreational mixed martial arts. “I’m just anxious about everyone else”.
She says: “He was a typical Roseburg kid, kinda nerdy, kinda out there”.
“I would’ve been shocked if he didn’t”, she said.
A neighbor, Bronte Harte, said Harper-Mercer “seemed really unfriendly” and would “sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light”. “Eventually I went down, but she had gone home”.
Lt. Col. Ben Garrett, an Army spokesman, said Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer was in service at Ft.
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Mintz, who was in the military and grew up in Randelman, N.C., is studying body building and nutrition.
