Oregon Shooting Suspect Chris Harper-Mercer Linked To Blog Post About Roanoke

Whether the teacher and the students were specifically targeted or the random targets of an individual obsessed with mass shooters, white supremacist leanings, and struggling with anti social attitudes along with mental health issues has yet to be understood. In fact, it’s no stranger to school gun violence.

Records show Harper-Mercer lived in a ground-floor apartment on Arlington Avenue at 230th Street in with his mother, Laurel Harper, from 2011 to 2013.

Police recovered six weapons and a flak jacket at Umpqua Community College and a further seven guns at the shooter‘s house, a press conference heard.

A possible situation like this one had been the subject of a great debate past year on campus.

Switzer’s staff includes special education teachers, aides, psychologists, counselors, behavioral interventionists, speech therapists and other specialists who provide students with focused care targeting individual needs.

A family member had posted a picture of her on Twitter following the shooting before they realised she had been killed.

Before going into spinal surgery, Anastasia Boylan told her father the gunman entered her classroom firing.

Two neighbors said they recognized online photos of Harper-Mercer as a man from the apartment building.

According to NBC: Vicari said at one point the shooter told people to stand up before asking whether they were Christian or not.

At least nine other people were also wounded when he sprayed bullets into a classroom at the college in Roseburg, a timber town of about 20,000 people which adjoins Winchester.

“If they said they were Christian, he shot them in the head”, Willis said her granddaughter told her.

He said: “And they would stand up and he said, “Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see god in just about one second”.

And then he shot and killed them, he said.

Authorities say the gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., killing nine before dying during an exchange of gunfire with officers.

A search of social media showed he also seemed to support the Irish Republican Army.

“I don’t know how we are going to move forward with our lives without Quinn”, the Coopers said.

As the killer picked off targets, student Kayla Marie tweeted: “There’s someone shooting on campus”.

He said it’s been a “devastating day” for him and his family and said he has been talking to police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the shooting.

The gunman’s dad Ian Mercer told reporters outside his home he is “as surprised as anyone” at the tragedy.

“It’s been a awful day”, a grim-faced Hanlin said. “I think he had a crush on me”. “I’m just anxious about everyone else”.

I grew up hunting, so by then I knew what it was, she told The Washington Post.

Several people remain in hospital after what was the 45th school shooting in the U.S. this year.

“Some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to school tomorrow if you’re in the northwest”.

Her friend, Jason Lee, 19, said Harper-Mercer would sometimes yell at children from his red bicycle.

The scene was described as “utter chaos” with witnesses saying how one student was carried out in a bloodied blanket.

“We began to run”, student Hannah Miles said.

Last night a visibly shaken Obama had paid tribute to the victims and called for stricter gun laws.

He said it’s impossible to identify mentally ill people likely to perpetrate mass shootings ahead of time. The reporting is routine. We become numb to this. “He would have temper tantrums and fits if he didn’t get his way”. He was referring to the latest in a long line of college massacres.

Stacy Boylan also said the shooter delivered “a box” to someone during the shooting.

Seung-Hui Cho, 23, shot dead 33 people and injured 25 in April 2007. In 2013, Hanlin sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden after the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school, declaring that he and his deputies would refuse to enforce new gun-control restrictions “offending the constitutional rights of my citizens”.