Oregon shooter rants in writings about having no girlfriend

She survived, and she and her family credit one of the victims for that. News media were not allowed onto the campus in the small town of Roseburg.

Harper-Mercer complained in a manifesto he left behind about not having a girlfriend and seemed to feel like he was very rational while others around him were not, the official said. It’s not like he was mean.

“I’m the sane one”, according to a law enforcement official.

Since authorities are still investigating the incident, details are scarce. “I don’t focus on the man. I focus on the evil that was in the man”. The killer stepped over her and shot someone else. “He will always be the Scroggins’ hero, from this point forward”.

Before the service, Scroggins shared Lacey’s story. “What do you want a gun for?” He shouted at Lacey: “Get up!”

She got up and began tending the wounded, fashioning her scarf as a tourniquet on the limb of a bleeding woman. “He was afraid to look away”, she told CNN.

“Mass shootings like this happen too often and Oregon has not been immune”, said the Rev. Chuck Currie, director of the Center for Peace and Spirituality and University Chaplain at Pacific University in Oregon. “She is getting back up”.

His presidential proclamation is intended as “a mark of respect for the victims of gun violence perpetrated” Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. Her ultimate goal is to be a surgeon. However, classes will not resume for another week.

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Candida Miller, left, and Brandon Snyder leave flowers at a site of a growing memorial to victims of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Tuesday, October 6, 2015. “Today we offer our prayers for those killed and injured”. “Sadly, we live in the midst of a culture that does not value the dignity and sacredness of every human life as it once did”.

“There’s been a lot of emotion”, he said. Two minutes after that, they reported, the shooter was down. “We will all be together in just a moment”, Scroggins said.

Investigators have not spoken to the contents of that flash-drive.

SCROGGINS: They’re in that prone position. “But it’s not good enough.’ And then he shot her”.

“He saved my girl”.

Another, Madysen Sanchez, said: “I needed to be here”.

There was another survivor, apparently given a message by the shooter.

He was shot and rolled over on top of Lacey. And that’s what Scroggins told Anspach’s mother in an emotional phone conversation the two had Saturday, a conversation that ended with the mother making a request.

Her father, the pastor, is certain of that.

“I am saddened beyond words over the tragedy that has struck your local community”, the archbishop wrote. He noted that he personally had never held a firearm in his life and summed up his philosophy as: “You don’t buy guns, you don’t buy guns, you don’t buy guns”.

CBN News reporter George Thomas spoke with Scroggins about his daughter’s experience. But she didn’t die. “But others don’t get their children back”. “Won’t say more to much to prepare”. “He thought if he did anything to make the shooter notice him he would be shot”. In emails to her son, she wrote she loved him and wanted him to be happy, according to the report.

Pastor Scroggins describes how his daughter Lacey prayed and prepared for death during the attack on the classroom.