Oregon victims were singled out for their religion

At a news conference, a visibly angry Mr Hanlin said he would not name the shooter.

“That’s all I could think about today”.

Kristin Sterner, middle, a freshman at Umpqua Community College, mourns during a vigil in Roseburg, Ore., on October 1, 2015.

Flags are to be flown at half staff until sunset on Monday. He’s directing flags to be lowered until sunset Tuesday. More than 170 people are arrested. He was studying chemistry and loved to play soccer.

Like other students, she was immersed in her new campus experience, barely a week into the start of the semester.

Yet another was a 34-year-old who was proud of himself for recently enrolling at Umpqua (UHMP’-kwah) Community College. They said he had enough ammunition for a prolonged gun fight.

Not counting Thursday’s incident, 293 US mass shootings have been reported this year, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker website, a crowd-sourced database kept by anti-gun activists that logs events in which four or more people are shot.

Families prayed, consoled one another and held their children tight in the chill night air.

He lashed out at the National Rifle Association gun lobby for blocking reforms and lamented how common mass shootings had become. He says the only thing the USA can do is ensure they don’t have an arsenal available “when something in them snaps”.

Oregon Live reports that he was an outdoors and horror movie enthusiast who lived with his mother, a licensed nurse, two miles from the college.

Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59, loved the outdoors, her 18-year-old daughter and her two Great Pyrenees dogs, said Robert Stryk, the owner of Pyrenees Vineyards in Myrtle Creek, where Dietz worked as a caretaker for many years.

She said Mercer would “sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light”.

His father, Ian Mercer, originally from the United Kingdom, told reporters outside his Tarzana, California, home, “I’m just as shocked as anybody at what happened”.

“It was constant”, she said of the flow of patients. He said: “As a country we can not just shrug our shoulders and move on”.

This item has been corrected to show Skarlatos’ first name is Alek, not Alex. Cobb left her phone, her backpack and all of her belongings in the classroom, and then ran out of the building, tripping her way down the stairs.

The women range in age from 18 to 34.

The hospital is about 70 miles north of Roseburg.

Army veteran Chris Mintz, 30, was shot 7 times when he tried to stop the gunman in Thursday’s mass shooting.

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

Roseburg, Oregon authorities have not speculated why he killed nine people at Umpqua Community College before being fatally shot in a police shootout. She survived by playing dead.

Wyden echoed her comments, adding that ending massacres will require compromise.

The violence stopped only after authorities exchanged gunfire with Mercer.

It wasn’t clear if he was enrolled at the college in the small town of Roseburg, but she and a few students say they thought he was taking classes.

Mercer’s Internet profile painted a different picture.

She says: “He was a typical Roseburg kid, kinda nerdy, kinda out there”.

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

Lt. Col. Ben Garrett, an Army spokesman, said Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer was in service at Ft.

Mercer was enlisted from November 5 until December 11 in 2008 in Fort Jackson, S.C., according to the records.

Garrett did not say which standards Harper-Mercer failed to meet. Family members tell us he blocked a door to keep the gunman from coming in. Officials identified the killer as Chris Harper-Mercer. He was reportedly armed with several weapons and was wearing body armor.

Agent Celinez Nunez of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said all weapons in the shooter’s possession were legally purchased.

He also had a.40-caliber Taurus pistol traced to someone in Portland and a.556-caliber Del-Ton. Seven people were wounded in the attack.

He isn’t believed to have a criminal history. At least six others were wounded.

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. He appeared to have at least one online dating profile. The last upload on the blog was Wednesday. when a documentary about the Newtown shooting was posted.

A Myspace page shows a photo believed to be Mercer sporting a crew cut and holding a rifle.

The three patients who needed additional care were transferred to PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend.

Identities may be released Friday or Saturday, the sheriff said.

Mercer, a student at the college, grilled his victims about their religions before he opened fire, witnesses said.