Community Raises Money For Victims Of UCC Shooting

Others were killed after being told to crawl across the floor.

Where did Chris Harper-Mercer get 13 various handguns and rifles, and did he come by them legally? “He called the one guy, gave him the envelope and told him to go to the corner of the classroom because, obviously, he was going to be the one that was going to be telling the story”, witness Bonnie Schaan recalled.

One of the wounded said Harper-Mercer handed a package of a few kind to one of the victims, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

It’s clear that Mercer had problems.

Her daughter survived by playing dead, Schaan said.

Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, reopened Monday for the first time since a student opened fire there and killed nine people on Thursday.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE: Randy Scroggins says his daughter Lacey remembers the gunman from two days before the attack, when Lacey and Chris Harper-Mercer were fellow students on the first day of writing class.

“He yelled at us, me and my husband”, said Ms. Hart, who lives with her husband and father.

The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who were on the scene within five minutes and exchanged fire with him nearly immediately, authorities said.

“She said, ‘My son is dealing with a few mental issues, and the roaches are really irritating him, ‘ ” Julia Winstead, 55, said.

The official is familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publically and commented on condition of anonymity.

Authorities say they have the shooter’s manifesto but have not revealed its contents.

Why was his anger directed at Umpqua Community College, or its students?

“If they said they were Christian, he shot them in the head”, Willis said Friday night, citing the account given by her granddaughter.

Boylan, 18, was in awful pain when Harper-Mercer told her to stand. She had been shot through the spine and a bullet was lodged in her back. VIDEO: Hero student charged gunman during Oregon shooting Her mother says Fitzgerald then heard the gunman tell another student he was the lucky one. “‘What religion are you?” But he said there’s one part of the tale she has wanted told from the beginning: “She was made a victim once by the shooter; she will not allow him to make her a victim again”.

Dr. Cavin says student leaders at UCC are planning a vigil for the victims of the shooting, but says it will not be held this week.

Law enforcement officials point to a recently released study suggesting a “contagion effect” after mass shootings that garner national and global headlines.

Mercer was enrolled in the class but officials have not disclosed a possible motive for the killings.

“Our thoughts, our hearts and our prayers go out to all of the families of those who died and were injured”, the statement said.

The shooting, the latest in a string of similar attacks in recent years at colleges and schools in the U.S., has revived a fierce debate on gun control.

Police earlier released the names of the victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 67. Who were these sons and daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles?

He wrote something to the effect of: “Other people think I’m insane, but I’m not”.

Classes do not resume at Umpqua Community College until next week, but a few students came to the campus to pick up belongings they left behind Thursday when they fled.

Several years ago, Mercer moved to Winchester, Oregon, from Torrance, California, with his mother Laurel Harper, a nurse. Scroggins had just spoke on the phone with the mother of a man who was shot and killed by Chris Harper Merc…

The Army said Harper-Mercer flunked out of basic training in 2008. Further proof showed his fascination for the various terror tactics of the Pro-Irish Republican Army, and he had also bought a few Nazi memorabilia.

Teacher Lawrence Levine, 67, was also killed in the shooting.