Obama: Oregon College Shooting “Something We Should Politicize”

The school made counselors available for students. Beloved sons and daughters.

The gunman, named as Chris Harper Mercer, opened fire inside a classroom at Umpqua Community College, killing nine people.

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin declined to name the gunman, saying, “Again, you will not hear anyone from this law enforcement operation use his name”.

After a 2006 incident in which one student was shot by another at Roseburg High School, local institutions – including UCC – hired security guards, according to the Eugene Register-Guard. She was training to become a pediatric nurse.

“I’ll miss her making fun of me when I would attempt to say the Starbucks cup sizes, getting pissed when I would tackle her with kisses or photograph the heck out of her”, her sister wrote.

“That’s all the details I have right now, is what you know already”.

The post also said, “And I have to say, anyone who knew him could have seen this coming”.

“I challenge you all to never utter his name”, Boice said. “If there was something we could do, we were going to do it”.

“Chris asked me to thank everyone for their support”, the message reads. One will likely be discharged today, Dr. Gray said. Anspach was the son of a firefighter, and Carnes was a niece of a paramedic, officials said.

“It’s been a bad day”, a grim-faced Hanlin said.

Another neighbor, Bronte Hart, told the Associated Press that the suspected killer would “sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light”.

Later in the day, students and faculty members were being bused to the county fairgrounds, the sheriff’s office said.

So Crane drew up lessons for responding, driving from school to school in a Chevy Suburban towing an RV, while his wife did paperwork for their fledgling venture in the backseat. Thursday was his fourth day of college. He told people to stand up and state their religion before opening fire.

The statement says Quinn and his brother Cody were inseparable.

Freshman Evan Hocker tells Northwest News’ Lehman, “I heard gunshots and then someone, one of my teachers, said there was a shooting, and then we all just went into a closet with a group of people and locked the whole place down”. “It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic”. We collectively are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction. “It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel, and it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America – next week, or a couple months from now”. Four years ago he moved to Oregon, neighbors said.

The shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UHMP’-kwah) Community College also wounded seven.

Carnes’ best friend told Chandler that her daughter had been flown by helicopter to a hospital. She heard a shot. ‘I’ll see you this afternoon’.

Mintz survived but suffered two broken legs among his wounds and will need extensive physical therapy, according to a gofundme page set up to raise money for him. According to the Roseburg News-Review. He was studying chemistry.

Fellow victim Lucas Eibel was a quadruplet.

Hundreds went to a candlelight vigil with many raising candles as the hymn “Amazing Grace” was played.

“Jason Johnson, 34, was proud to be a Christian”.

Reina Webb, 19, said the man’s mother was friendly and often chatted with neighbours, but Harper-Mercer kept to himself. They felt that Jason had finally found his path.

Skarlatos has left rehearsals in Los Angeles to be with family and friends in his hometown.

Teacher Lawrence Levine was also killed in the shooting. One was an assistant professor of English at the college.

Victim #7; 44-year-old Sarena Moore of Myrtle Creek, Oregon.

Guthrie’s father sold cars in the Roseburg area for about 20 years, and the right-hander said he still has several aunts, uncles and cousins in the region about 180 miles south of Portland. In one post, he appeared to urge readers to watch the online footage of Vester Flanagan shooting two former colleagues live on TV in August in Virginia, noting “the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight”.