Victims of Oregon mass shooting identified

Reina Webb, 19, said Harper-Mercer’s mother was friendly and often chatted with neighbors, but her son kept to himself.

The gunman stormed into a classroom in Snyder Hall on campus, shot a professor at point-blank range, then ordered cowering students to stand up and state their religion before he shot them one by one, according to survivors’ accounts.

The gunman, his background and his motive for the shooting are under investigation, Hanlin said.

Authorities released the names, ages and brief biographical information about the nine people who died at a Friday news conference.

But the gunman fired additional rounds, Ms Skinner recounted, adding that the gunman then changed direction and entered a different room. By the time law enforcement officers were alerted and arrived at the scene, he had already killed 10 people and injured another 7.

They died when 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer opened fire at the campus before he was killed by police in a shoot-out.

Authorities say 13 people were killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

On Thursday, Mercer – dressed in a flak jacket – brought six guns to Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and opened fire. So far, authorities have not said anything about such a package.

A sheriff’s spokesman said the threat had subsided over the noon hour.

McGowan said the calm killer seemed resigned to taking his own life, too.

The Oregon shooting has led to fresh demands for stricter gun control in the United States, including an impassioned plea by President Barack Obama for political action, and statements by a few Republican presidential candidates supporting the right of Americans to bear arms under the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. The hero who stopped Oregon gunman from killing more.

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley says he’s “absolutely heartbroken” about the shooting. He said he was “not religious, but spiritual”, and was a “teetotaller” living with his parents.

Jason recently enrolled in school at Umpqua Community College. It marked the deadliest since a shooting rampage in June at a South Carolina church that killed nine.

The college’s interim president, Rita Cavin, said, “Our hearts and prayers go out to the families, and to the staff and students who witnessed this atrocity”. He also expressed gratitude for the first responders.

Ariana Earnhardt, Mintz’s cousin says, “his vital signs are okay he’s going to have to learn to walk again but he walked away with his life and that’s more than so many other people did”. “The male shooter is released”, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office writes in a statement.

The Portland Oregonian newspaper and CNN reported that a suspect had been taken into custody, citing Douglas County officials. Those new details revealing just how intimate of a shooting this was and in this tiny community and learned that the shooter lived about two miles down the road from this school and that he specifically selected his Thursday morning writing class for this massacre, nearly certainly gunning down people that he knew.