Names of UCC shooting victims released

Lucero Alcaraz, 19, Jason Johnson, 33, Lucas Eibel, 18, and Rebecka Carnes, 18, were the first four of the nine slain students to be identified as those killed by 26-year-old Harper-Mercer at Umpqua Community College in the rural town of Roseburg, according to reports.

Alcaraz, Cooper, Carnes, Woodworth and Mintz were among the victims shot by Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer during his several-minute rampage on the 100-acre community college campus about six miles north of Roseburg.

Lucero Alcaraz, a 19-year-old from Southern Oregon, was among those who died Thursday in the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College.

“The Pyrenees family is heartbroken to confirm that our friend Kim Dietz was one of the victims of yesterday’s senseless UCC shooting“, a statement on the company’s Facebook page said Friday morning. He was studying chemistry at the school, his family said. You were going to do great things. Along with Eibel and 85 other students, she was selected as a UCC scholar, the college announced.

“The other day he looked at me and hugged me and said, ‘Mom, how long have you been waiting for one of your kids to go to college?’ and I said, ‘Oh, about 20 years”, she told the news outlet in a heartbreaking statement. They felt that Jason had finally found his path.

Alcaraz’s older sister Maria posted on Facebook that the first-year college student had dreams of becoming a pediatric nurse and that she would have gone on to make a “great pediatric nurse”. “I’m full of anger, pain, sadness, regret that I didn’t get the chance to see her or prevent this from happening”. He lived a life of service, in his involvement at both the Wildlife Safari and awesome Grace animal shelters.

To the families of the victims, of course, nothing is routine.

This was Johnson’s first week at Umpqua, which has about 3,000 students. Last night, after news of Lucero’s death had reached the family, her cousin posted again.

“He started Monday and he was so proud of what he had accomplished, and rightly so”, his mother, Tonja Johnson Engel, tearfully told NBC News.

Recent high school graduate Quinn Cooper, 18, was also named as a victim. His family remembered him as amusing, sweet and compassionate.

Lucas Eibel family statement: “We have been trying to figure out how to tell everyone how awesome Lucas was, but that would take 18 years”. He always stood up for people. They said he loved to dance and voice act with his older brother, and was preparing to take the test to advance to a brown belt in Karate next week. I don’t know how we are going to move forward with out lives without Quinn. He was an awesome soccer player.

The statement says Quinn and his brother Cody were inseparable. Our lives are shattered beyond fix. The teen graduated from high school in June. “We urge all Northwest members to pray specifically for the Grants Pass Church and Sarena’s extended family as well as our Roseburg area churches”.

Sarena Dawn Moore of Myrtle Creek was 44 and Kim Saltmarsh Dietz from Roseburg was 59.

“Obviously we are family, and this hurts”, Marlar said.

A GoFundMe account was created to apparently offset the costs of Carnes’ funeral.

Larry Levine, 67, was a creative writing teacher at UCC and killed by the gunman on Thursday.