Creative writing teacher at Oregon college among dead in shooting

Lt. Col. Ben Garrett, an Army spokesman, said Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer was in service at Ft. But they said the time will soon come to talk about how to prevent these events from occurring in the future.

Mercer was killed in a shootout with police. He said the pope only really had one “audience” in Washington: with former students and his family members.

School shootings are a disturbing reality of American life and many facilities have reinforced security in recent years, especially in the wake of the Sandy Hook, Connecticut massacre in 2012 that left 20 students and six adults dead.

Sen. Jeff Merkley said one of his cousins was killed at the school.

“It’s a very small community”, Guthrie said of the town where he was born and lived until he was 12.

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

“Those are conversations for the days ahead”, she said.

Boylan, 18, survived by pretending to be dead.

The shooter has been publicly identified as Chris Harper-Mercer.

“I have to say, anyone who knew him could have seen this coming”, the blogger, identified by the Daily Beast as Mercer, wrote.

Investigators are focusing on reports from survivors that Mercer told students to state their religion before he opened fire.

Authorities initially refused to name the gunman, and shed no light on his motive.

At a different apartment complex where Harper-Mercer and his mother lived in Southern California, neighbours remembered a quiet and odd young man who rode a red bike everywhere.

His father, Ian Mercer, said he was “just as shocked as everybody else” at his son’s actions. “You can blame it on whatever you want, but I grew up around guns all my life”.

Officials haven’t released the names of the victims, with Sheriff Hanlin saying investigators are “still trying to confirm a great amount of information floating around”.

The Army said Harper-Mercer flunked out of basic training in 2008.

Webb says Harper-Mercer’s mother was friendly, chatted with neighbors and told her they were moving to make a new start in Oregon.

“His demeanor, the way he moved, always looking around”, Fisher told CNN. “I got a bad vibe from him”. A law enforcement official told CNN that the shooter had body armor with him and had enough ammunition for a prolonged gunfight. On an undated Myspace page, he posted photos of masked IRA gunmen carrying assault rifles.

The posts were left under the user name “lithium_love”.

If you want to help the families of the shooting victims, there are three relief funds you can donate to, Oregon Live reported.

“On an interesting note”, the blog continues ominously, “I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are…” But USA officials acknowledged that this is one of the questions being asked as they debate the broader dilemma of how the administration should respond to what White House press secretary Josh Earnest described as Russia’s “indiscriminate military operations against the Syrian opposition”. “How he could have that much time to kill that many people”.

Cooper’s family says he was amusing and compassionate and loved dancing and voice acting.

ABC News reported Friday (http://abcn.ws/1YUbsvv ) that Alek Skarlatos of Roseburg, Oregon, told the network’s “Good Morning America” program that he would have been attending a class at Umpqua Community College during Thursday’s attack. He said three patients were transferred to larger facilities for more intensive care. One of those patients is in critical condition and two are in serious condition, Nickel said.

The women range in age from 18 to 34.

“Next week, when we go into session, we will have a moment of silence”, he said.

“We’ve been implementing gun control for 40 years and it solves nothing”, Starrett said.

Of the four remaining patients, one was discharged late Thursday, and one was expected to leave Friday. “Somehow this has become routine”, he said in an emotional speech Thursday evening.

“It does each time, I think, unfortunately, cause us to pause and look at our own preparations, our own state of affairs”, Dolheimer said. “And the guy shot him at least two more times”. The gunman opened fire, striking Mintz. Flanagan, a former employee of the station, fatally shot himself after a police chase.

Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground.

The picturesque campus sits on a hill in a logging community, which is fairly rural but easily accessible from Interstate 5.

How well did the current interpretation of the 2nd Amendment serve the purposes of domestic tranquility and general welfare at Umpqua Community College yesterday? A freshman at the local high school shot and wounded a fellow student in 2006.

The town has little crime.

Witnesses have said that he demanded to know his victims’ religion before gunning them down. “The reporting is routine”.

At school in Oregon, “he was a typical Roseburg kid, kind of nerdy, kind of out there”.