UCC Shooting: Father of Victim Speaks Out

Ian Mercer, the father of UCC gunman Chris Harper Mercer has told he has been left in a stupor and speechless after his 26 year old son’s shooting rampage at Roseberg, Oregon’s Umpqua Community College.

A breakdown of Chris Harper Mercer shows a deeply disturbed man from a fractured family. Other media said he was 26.

CNN reported the suspect was armed with three handguns, a “long gun” and body armor.

Anastasia Boylan told her father that after entering her classroom the gunman told the professor that he was waiting to do it for years. Vicari’s brother told her that anyone who responded “yes” was shot in the head. In a classroom he asked who was Christian. ‘If you’re a Christian, stand up. The keep going transfer on the web journal was Wednesday.at the point when a narrative about the Newtown shooting was posted.

Another student, 18-year-old Kortney Moore, relayed a similar account, telling the News Review that the shooter asked individuals to stand up and state their religion before he opened fire.

Authorities offered no explanation for the gunman’s actions.

“The shooter was coating individuals up and inquiring as to whether they were Christian,” she composed. He also said three of the wounded victims were hospitalized in critical condition.

A candlelit prayer vigil was held in Roseburg on Thursday evening, hours after the shooting occurred. The gunman did not survive a shootout with law officers.

Officials said that nine victims were killed, plus the gunman, and seven injured during the mass shooting, the 294th in the United States this year. Hanlin said that proposed restrictions would be “irresponsible and an indisputable insult to the American people” and he and his deputies would refuse to enforce them. “But based on my experience as president, I can’t guarantee that, and that’s bad to say, and it can change”.

In a national address, Obama lamented that mass shootings have become routine in America. The reporting is routine. My response here at the podium is routine. “We’ve become numb to this”.

“[We are] not what happened today”, said former Umpqua Community College student Jennifer McMaster.

A classmate of Welding’s went to see what was happening. She was bleeding from a gunshot wound in her back.

“There was so much screaming you knew it was serious”, she said.

“I ran to the edge of the campus, down a hill and waited”. After they stood up and gave an answer, he started shooting. Those security guards are unarmed, interim college President Rita Calvin told the newspaper. Anyone who identified himself or herself as Christian was shot in the head.

Stacy Boylan spoke to CNN television Thursday night. “… But we got along with our teachers. If they answered no, then they got shot in the leg. That’s just what I heard, I’m not sure”.

It would also be disclosed that Mercer graduated from Switzer Learning Center in Torrance in 2009, a school for teens with emotional disabilities.