UCC Shooting: Victim’s Service Dog Struggling With Loss

When a shooter entered Oregon’s Umqua Community College on October 1, 2015 and murdered nine students, one of the people killed was Sarena Moore, reports CNN.

“You name it – he did everything with her”, stated Travis Dow, Serena’s fiance. But then the shooter demanded that she get back into her wheelchair.

Witnesses say that after the killer burst into their classroom, he ordered everyone, including Sarena, to lie down on the floor.

Bullet stayed with her, Dow said, right until she drew her last breath.

Sarena’s family today said she was a divorced mother of three adult children who had chose to go back to school to get a business degree. Moore, 44, was one of his first targets. He’s trained to stay right next to her no matter what. Bullet still lays in front of her door at her home in Myrtle Creek every night.

Sarena trained Bullet herself, despite excruciating back pain that forced her into a wheelchair.

And there is Moore’s favorite hat – a small but incredibly precious piece of the woman who loved all animals – and loved Bullet like a mother. She also happened to be in a wheelchair and accompanied by her service dog, Bullet.

“Me and Bullet, we’re working on the relationship together now to get him used to me now, because she’s not around anymore”, Dow said.

“He’s a wonderful dog”, said Moore’s fiance, Travis Dow.

One account says Harper-Mercer toyed with her, ordering her to get back in the chair and watching her struggle before finally shooting and killing her. I gave it to him.

‘She wanted people to know there is better therapy out there than just dogs, ‘ he added. “He uses that, lays down on it and everything else”, Dow said.

For Dow, the dog his fiancee trained is exactly what he now needs for comfort. He survived because it’s a piece of her. Bullet became a piece of Sarena. He said mourning Sarena and moving past the tragedy is “going to be hard”, but he and Bullet will “make it together”.