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The tracker’s definition of a mass shooting differs slightly from the official Federal Bureau of Investigation definition, which says that an event qualifies as a mass shooting if four or more people are killed.

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...

Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground.

Because of 4chan’s anonymity, it’s impossible to say whether the poster who warned “don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest” actually was Chris Harper-Mercer, identified as the person who shot nine people to death at Umpqua Community...

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.

A grim President Barack Obama says the US has “become numb” to mass shootings like Thursday’s incident in Oregon, where 20-year-old gunman killed at least 9 people at Umpqua Community College.

The gunman also wounded seven people in the rampage and died in an exchange of gunfire with police.

“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”.

Lt. Col. Ben Garrett, an Army spokesman, said Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer was in service at Ft. But they said the time will soon come to talk about how to prevent these events from occurring in the future.

According to reports, the gunman was armed with an assault rifle and three handguns and was wearing body armor.

Vicari’s brother told her that anyone who responded “yes” was shot in the head.

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.

Two hero cops who rushed to defend helpless students from the Oregon school shooter have been praised this evening as a dramatic audio recording captured the moment they confronted the killer.

Whether the teacher and the students were specifically targeted or the random targets of an individual obsessed with mass shooters, white supremacist leanings, and struggling with anti social attitudes along with mental health issues has yet to be understood. In fact, it’s...