President to meet with Oregon shooting victims’ families

Harper-Mercer then went back into the classroom, walked to the front of the room and shot himself, Wesenberg said. Nine others were wounded in the shooting.

The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago. In the return of gunfire, one round hit the shooter on the right side.

Seconds later, the officers “both felt they had a good target”, Wesenberg said. “She said, ‘He has a few psychological problems”.

Mercer said he has never held a gun.

Tweety Bird often shares her email address – the one public records link to Harper – in these posts, encouraging those with questions to reach out to her directly for additional guidance.

“I keep two full mags in my Glock case”. “No one will be “dropping” by my house uninvited without acknowledgment”.

Her grandmother has told The Associated Press that Boylan played dead and the gunman left her bleeding on the floor. “As if to say, “we will not be defined by violence” …Violence will not have the last word in Roseburg”.

Investigators said the mother has told them he had mental health issues, but have not released details. Preliminary scrutiny of his social media accounts indicates he was fascinated by the Irish Republican Army and frustrated by traditional organized religion, reported MSN. Unlike his father, who said on television that he had no idea Harper-Mercer cared so deeply about guns, his mother was well aware of his fascination. She attempted to eliminate disruptions to Adam Lanza’s life “entirely through hypervigilance and management of his symptoms”.

She also spoke with colleagues about her struggle to raise a son on her own and about placing him in a psychiatric hospital in California, before the pair moved to Oregon in 2013. However, it is unclear whether Harper or her son made the response. She also indicated that her son, who lived with her, was well versed in guns, citing him as her source of information on gun laws, saying he “has much knowledge in this field”. The teen became increasingly preoccupied with mass murder and engaged in a cyber-community of mass murder enthusiasts. “But I wish I could see his mother and hug her”. His mother, it notes, “seemed unaware of any potential detrimental impact of providing unfettered access to firearms”. ‘We have people who are healing. Previously, they had said only that the 26-year-old attacker killed himself after a shootout. All the while, she expressed hope that her son could lead a successful life in finance or as a filmmaker.

Jeramy says as long as it’s not political, he’ll welcome the president with open arms. “You’re basically hiding, because you’re isolated”.

It is not clear where – or if – Harper-Mercer had pursued such a degree. That is likely to be based on what they recovered from the note he left behind and what his mother has revealed. The victims included his classmates in a writing class and the instructor.