Oregon Shooter ‘Targeted Christians’

Two officials familiar with the contents of the note say 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer, who was killed in a firefight with police at Umpqua Community College, wrote that he would be “welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil”. But J.J. Vicari, who was in the classroom next to the where the attack occurred, said he never heard the gunman ask about religion and never even heard the gunman’s voice. It was not clear if he was killed by the authorities or whether he took his own life.

The higher education college was founded in 1964 and has around 3,300 students, many of them mature students.

In a statement on this latest mass shooting in the United States, President Barack Obama admitted to feeling powerless to make sure such a tragedy doesn’t happen again. “Will post more later”. Then, on Wednesday, responding to a comment that he “must be saving himself for someone special”, he said, “Involuntarily so” It was a day before the killings. “He seemed skittish, always looking over his shoulder to see if anyone was watching”, Fisher said.

The user wrote a blog post on the site about Vester Flanagan, the man who shot dead two reporters during a live broadcast in August before killing himself, calling the footage of the shooting “good”. More than 3,600 people were killed in the armed conflict. At an apartment complex where Harper-Mercer and his mother lived in Southern California, neighbors remembered him as a quiet, odd young man who rode a red bike.

Hannah Miles, 19, said she was in her writing class when her teacher got a call from security saying the school was in lockdown. “She said, ‘My son is dealing with a few mental issues, and the roaches are really irritating him, ‘ ” said Julia Winstead. “He would have tantrums if something didn’t go his way”. “I’ve just been talking to the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, really what I know is what you guys know already”.

The Torrance-based Daily Breeze said he graduated in 2009 from Torrance’s Switzer Learning Centre, a private non-profit school that says it serves students aged from third-grade to 22, most of whom have learning or emotional disorders.

Harper-Mercer was in the army for one month in 2008 before being discharged for failing to meet administrative standards, military records showed.

Lucumi and her daughter, Rosario Espinoza, 33, said Mercer often seemed unsettled.

She added that his mother was seen “crying her eyes out” on Thursday. “They were always together”, she said.

Reflected one commentator on the web that made this author wonder: ‘Elliot Rodger, Chris Harper Mercer and coming attractions look like the poster boys for the feminist-miscegenist-diversitarian utopia our elites want to impose on us: A generation of randomly bred lost boys born to single or divorced mothers with absent or disengaged fathers.

Pictures show Harper-Mercer standing with slouched shoulders in a grey vest-top. She is now a licensed practical nurse in Oregon.

“He appears to be an angry young man who was very filled with hate”, one law enforcement official told The New York Times.

Mr. Harper-Mercer appeared to have sought community on the Internet, leaving hints behind of his passions, his loneliness, his likes and dislikes.