Oregon gunman was student at college and enrolled in writing class where

Mr Boylan said the gunman told the victims: “because you’re a Christian you’re going to see God in just about one second”.

The shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg left nine people dead and nine more injured Thursday.

Stacy Boylan, whose daughter survived the shooting, told USA television network CNN that his daughter described to him how the gunman asked his victims to state their religion before shooting them.

Harper-Mercer, whose father is English, was killed in a subsequent shoot-out with police.

Oregon State Police received reports of an active shooter at 10:42.

Eileen Sandlin, 40, a resident of the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Tarzana where Mercer’s father Ian Mercer lives, said her husband, Bob, used to tutor Mercer in science and maths when he was of middle and high-school age.

Boylan said he doesn’t know what was in it.

Dale Greenley, a fellow member of the group said Levine was an avid fisherman who used to be a guide on the north Umpqua River.

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama launched a stringent attack on America’s gun laws after the mass shooting in Oregon.

Obama signed the proclamation at the White House on Friday.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday that Alcaraz was among the victims of Thursday’s shooting at Umpqua Community College. “Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight”.

Eibel, who was studying chemistry, volunteered at a wildlife center and animal shelter. The two were “inseparable”, the Cooper family said in a statement.

Quinn Glen Cooper’s family said their son had just started college and loved dancing and voice acting.

As shock and fear turned to grief in the small town of Roseburg, Ore., glimpses of the victims of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College began to emerge Friday. Several people were also wounded.

Sarena Dawn Moore was killed on the Umpqua Community College campus.

“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.

In a written statement read by officials, his family said that he was “one of the most positive young men, always looking for the best in life”.

Step-sister Carmen Nesnick said the shooting didn’t make sense.

The president says he plans to keep talking about the issue and “will politicize it” because inaction is itself a political decision the U.S.is making.

He said it’s impossible to identify mentally ill people likely to perpetrate mass shootings ahead of time. He says the only thing the USA can do 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. Seven more weapons were found at his home. “Almost like a tantrum, like a kid…. There’s 10, 9 kids who won’t get those doors opened”, he said.

Laurel Harper was awarded custody of her son and they lived together in an apartment at Winchester, Oregon, about a four-minute drive from the college. Campus spokeswoman Ann Garten says she has no details on whether he graduated or what he studied.

“And 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.

On Friday morning, a man answering the phone at her home said no one was able to talk.

The women range in age from 18 to 34. The average age of its 13,600 students was 38 during the 2013-2014 school year.

Moore said she saw her teacher get shot in the head, apparently after the gunman came into the classroom.

Wanda Mintz said her 30-year-old nephew, Chris Mintz, a student at the college, fell to the floor and asked the shooter to stop.

Chris Mintz spoke to ABC News from his hospital bed Friday. The worst mass shooting in recent Oregon history was raising questions about security at the college with about 3,000 students.

Calling for action to prevent further “senseless violence”, Ms Brown told reporters: “This is a conversation we will have but today is not the day”. “And there must be responsibility if these massacres are going to end”, Wyden said.

Three people with gunshot wounds to the head were transferred to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, he said.

“Just himself”, said Alex Frier, a stage manager at the college who said Harper-Mercer built sets for theater performances last semester.

He said he was “not religious, but spiritual”, a “teetotaller” and a conservative Republican living with his parents. Jackson, South Carolina, starting on November 5, 2008.

Mercer was in the army for one month in 2008, before being discharged for failing to meet administrative standards, military records showed. Generally, the Army requires recruits to pass physical fitness tests and to be in generally good physical and mental health.

The shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UHMP’-kwah) Community College also wounded seven people.

Greg Marlar, the chief of Douglas Fire District No. 2, said two of his firefighters, who responded to Thursday’s shooting, had sons and daughters killed in the tragedy. She says investigators also found a flak jacket next to a rifle at the school, which contained steel plates. He died after a shootout with police.

Police said that he had body armour, three pistols, a rifle and five extra magazines of ammunition. A neighbor, Bronte Harte, told The Associated Press that Mercer “seemed really unfriendly” and would “sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light”.

In addition to the MySpace page, Mercer appeared to have at least one online dating profile, a torrents streaming account and a blog.

One avenue investigators were pursuing are five blog posts on a website left by someone with an email address associated with Mercer. A MySpace page believed to belong to the gunman included photos of him and also photos of IRA posters. One was an assistant professor of English at the college.