Oregon Shooting: ‘Heroic’ Veteran Chris Mintz Was Shot 7 Times

The gunman who shot Christians in the head at a Oregon college after asking for his victims’ faiths appeared to be sympathetic to the predominantly Catholic Irish Republican Army – but also posted online that he was “not religious”.

“At that point, the shooter shot him five times and the shooter moved on and apparently didn’t go in to that classroom”, Pastor Dennis Kreiss told People.

Mintz relocated to Oregon to raise his 6-year-old son, and for members of his family, a silver lining came in the fact that he was able to escape from the carnage at all.

In an editorial published on Friday, the Daily Beast said that Chris Mintz is the name worth remembering from the tragic Oregon community college shooting, not the suspected shooter.

Mintz was shot in the back, stomach, hands and legs, Bourgeois said.

His family in North Carolina says they weren’t surprised when they heard he tried to save others.

Kristen Sterner, left, and Carrissa Welding, both students at Umpqua Community College, embrace each other during a candlelight vigil for those killed during a shooting at the college, October 1, 2015, in Roseburg, Ore.

“We’re not sure how his legs got broken”, she told NBC. “And the guy steps over him and shoots more people”.

In an attempt to stop the gunman, he blocked the doorway and was shot three times and then another two times as he called out for his son. While much attention has been paid to the shooter, details are now emerging about one of the heroes on that campus. Several sources say Mintz was stationed at Fr. Lewis in Washington, and was deployed during his Army service. He was later killed in a shootout with police. He was expected to recover after spending most of Thursday in surgery. Mintz reportedly had ambitions to become a fitness trainer, and will have a few new challenges to overcome, but I wouldn’t recommend betting against him.

“It sounds like something he would do”, Mr. Bourgeois said, The Daily Beast reported.

“This is Chris’s friend”, someone wrote on Mintz’s Facebook page Thursday.