Oregon College Shooting Survivor Chris Mintz Recounts Rampage

He told a screaming, injured student and other people to stay down.

A student cowering nearby pleaded with him not to get closer, but Mintz didn’t listen. But Army veteran Chris Mintz dashed from one building to another, warning others about a shooter on campus.

In a Facebook post, he said he was recovering well from his injuries.

“It started so normal, the day that is”, Mintz said on his Facebook post. He was in his writing class, laughing along with his teacher and fellow students when a disturbance began from another classroom.

‘The teacher knocked on the door and there were gunshots that sounded like firecrackers going off’. “We all took off running down the breezeway toward the library”, the posting late on Friday read.

From then on, Mintz took on an indirect leadership role amidst the horror and chaos that took place, CNN reported. Once everyone was out, he joined a throng fleeing to the library. Mintz volunteered to do it, he said. He ended up in the school’s Snyder Hall, where the gunman was.

On the 1st of October, Mintz had been in a classroom when he heard yelling. He then went back toward the classroom where the shooting was happening.

He didn’t know the shooter and reached a classroom & looked through the glass door and saw that a woman’s foot was wedged in it. He was startled by a man hiding behind a auto who warned him that he will get shot. “While still laying there, a few students ran out of the classroom, a few covered in blood …”

He put his back against the door and waited, he wrote, as he heard sirens approaching.

Amid the commotion, the shooter appeared from a nearby class, donned in a black shirt and glasses. Suddenly, the shooter opened a door, leaned half his torso and fired.

An Army veteran who was shot five times as he confronted a college gunman has described the massacre for the first time, revealing how the shooter displayed no emotion and acted as if he were playing a computer game.

My boy… Chris Mintz begged to see his son again as it was his birthday. The shooter told him that it was because he called the cops.

The shooter turned around and went back to the classroom.

Mintz was shot five times – in the left leg, right leg, abdomen, shoulder blade and left pinky finger. Mintz writes, “When I saw him, I knew we were all going to be okay”.

He sat there in pain and watched as officers in tactical gear stormed in.

He continued screaming at unsuspecting students to run before heading back toward the gunfire.

When the gunman responsible for the Oregon shooting left and the gunfire was gone, a friend and a classmate went and knelt at his side, traumatized and cried.

“I think she tried to pray with me”, he said. He told her to call his son’s mom & tell her he couldn’t pick her up from school.

The gunman behind a mass shooting at an Oregon college committed suicide after a shootout with police.

Mintz responded saying the cops were already on their way, and explained that he didn’t call them. He said the first responders and hospital workers are “the real heroes, they saved us”.

He wonders how he made it out alive.

“When I moved pain shot through me like a bomb going off”, Mintz wrote.