Flags flown at half mast across United States after latest mass shooting

A medical examiner made the determination about the shooter, 26-year-old Christopher Mercer-Harper, according to the Associated Press.

Though officials have yet to formally name him, the gunman, who died in a shootout with police, has been widely identified as Chris Harper Mercer, 26. Hanlin said they “neutralized” him. “Officers responded immediately… there was an exchange of gunfire, (and) the shooter was neutralised at that point in time”, the sheriff said.

Still, concerns that people Umpqua Community College may have been killed due to their religious beliefs spurred a flurry of reactions on the national stage Friday.

All the guns were legally obtained by the shooter or family members over the past three years through a federally licensed firearms dealer, she said.

A gunman who shot dead nine people at a college in the U.S. died after turning the gun on himself, police have confirmed.

Although authorities have disclosed scant information about the gunman, they appeared to be learning more about him and why he might have opened fire.

The statement says Quinn and his brother Cody were inseparable.

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

The only thing the USA can do, he explained, is ensure they do not have an arsenal available “when something in them snaps”.

Tonja Johnson Engel said her son had struggled with drug abuse, but chose to continue his education after completing a six-month rehab program with the Salvation Army in Portland. Asked on Saturday if the shooter had handed a “box” or other materials to anyone at the scene, Sheriff Hanlin said he did not know.

“I have noticed that so many people like [Flanagan] are alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are”, Harper-Mercer wrote in a blog post, according to CBS News.

He said that investigators were checking numerous leads and had already interviewed hundreds of people in the area.

“We wanted him to take a novice safety course and he was trying to tell me that he already had experience with firearms and I didn’t get a good feeling about him”, Way told Reuters.

In Winchester, Ore., Mr. Harper-Mercer and his mother shared an apartment in a dun-colored building that sat roped off behind police tape on Thursday evening, guarded by sheriff’s deputies who shooed away reporters.

In a photo posted on Mercer’s MySpace profile, a man with a shaved head and dark-rimmed eyeglasses stares into camera while holding a rifle.

So far the Sherif ” s office alleges that Mercer might have suffered from mental problems and could have been inspired by previous mass shootings that took place across the US. His crews did what he described as 15-second assessments of the wounded, mainly determining whether they could breathe or be resuscitated, and be “tagged” by the severity of their wounds.

One of those wounded, Chris Mintz, 30, a US Army veteran who served in Iraq, was credited with probably saving lives when he stopped the gunman from entering another classroom before police arrived.

“During the shooting both of his legs were broken and he is going to have to go through a ton of physical therapy”.