A woman is comforted as friends and family wait for students at the local fairgrounds after a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, October 1, 2015.
The shooting at Umpqua Community College left 10 dead, including the shooter, and at least 10 others were injured. It was on that Boston campus Friday afternoon that Democratic Sen.
The gunman who went on a deadly rampage at an Oregon college was well armed and equipped with extra ammunition, authorities said on Friday, and he may have killed more people if not for the heroism of a military veteran in an adjoining classroom.
“When it comes to the debt ceiling, we’re not going back there”, Obama said at a press conference Friday, referring to past negotiations with Republicans in 2011. “Every single day. Kids are just running for their lives, trying to get to school”.
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.
Telegraph reports that the gunman who was said to have been born in United Kingdom, opened fire in a science classroom at the Umpqua Community College and was armed with three handguns and what police described as a “long gun”.
“He was on the wrestling team and and he’s done cage-fighting so it does not surprise me that he would act heroically”, Sheila told NBC News. He was unsure what unit Mintz served in or how long he served.
At least one gunman killed seven to 10 people and injured about 20 others Thursday at a community college in southwest Oregon, state officials told NBC News.
Responding SWAT officers then engaged in a standoff with Montano, who had taken cover and was throwing objects including canisters of pepper spray at police who had trained their weapons on him, police spokesman Don Aaron said.