Oregon School Shooting Revised Death Count

Hanlin also voiced his support in the letter for Linn County, Ore., Sheriff Tim Mueller, who said politicians were exploiting the deaths of innocent victims to try to pass laws that would prevent law-abiding Americans from owning firearms or ammunition magazines.

Survivors and their families say the killer asked people if they were Christians, but investigators have yet to determine the shooter’s motive, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

Law enforcement swarmed the college after an active shooter was reported at 10:38 a.m. The campus was put in lockdown while officers tracked down the gunman and exchanged gunfire.

“I will not name the shooter”, Hanlin said Thursday. “When she looked at us, she said, ‘We have to get out – now”‘.

A staunch believer in the Second Amendment, he fired off a letter two years ago to the vice president saying he would never comply with any gun control law coming from the Obama administration. Just 12 minutes after the initial 911 call, the suspected gunman was dead.

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin registered his opposition this year as state lawmakers considered requiring background checks on private, person-to-person gun sales.

“It’s awesome, the turnout”.

“This has been a long, sad tragic day at Umpqua Community College”, she said.

At the time, gun-control campaigners were pressing for reform after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in December 2012, in which 20 children and six children were shot dead by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who also killed his mother and himself.

Oregon’s governor has ordered that flags at all state buildings be flown at half-staff until sunset Friday.

What is clear is the devastating impact his actions have had on this tightly-knit community.