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Mintz’s family told WFMY News 2 that when the shooting erupted, he told his classmates to remain calm then went to confront the heavily armed Harper-Mercer, who was later shot and killed in a gun battle with sheriff’s deputies.

Nine people were killed and at least seven others were injured at Roseburg, Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on October. 1, allegedly at the hands of 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer.

The gunman who shot Christians in the head at a Oregon college after asking for his victims’ faiths appeared to be sympathetic to the predominantly Catholic Irish Republican Army – but also posted online that he was “not religious”.