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Armed suspect Chris Harper-Mercer walked into a class at Snyder Hall on Thursday, killing multiple and wounding several others before taking his own life.

At a barbecue shortly before they left, Mr. Harper-Mercer spent hours talking with a next-door neighbor about guns and how he and his mother were excited to leave Los Angeles and get a fresh start.

As police investigate Thursday’s mass shooting at a college in Oregon, neighbors are seeking answers of their own- even as they battle through enormous pain.

Harper-Mercer was officially identified on Friday as the assailant who survivors said stormed into the classroom of his introductory writing class on Thursday and shot the professor at point-blank range, before picking off other victims one at a time as he questioned each about...

However, a law enforcement official said a manifesto of several pages had been recovered.

Gunman Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer later killed himself as officers arrived, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday.

Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground.

A man identifying himself as Ian Mercer, the gunman’s father, spoke briefly to a throng of reporters and camera crews outside his home in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

Thus, survivors say that, before shooting, he made his victims stand up and declare their religion.