#BREAKING Umpqua Community College in #Roseburg #Oregon shooting claims 10 LIVES and more than 20 injured. The suspected shooter detained— $ N I T C H L A D Y (@Snitchlady) October 1, 2015
Online chat room rants by this gunman showing superiority and claiming he was in the Seattle area and going to shoot up a school with anonymous chat members telling him to stop and some even cheering him up with nobody reporting to the police. It boils down to the same thing I always preach about reporting crimes or potential crimes. Nobody called the FBI's anonymous tip lines.
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Now law enforcement are racing to see who 26yo Chris Harper was. His name has not been officially released but citing anonymous law enforcement officials, that was him.
The massacre in Roseburg, a former timber town in Umpqua River Valley, is the latest in a series of mass shootings at U.S. college campuses, movie theaters, military bases and churches in recent years. It marked the deadliest since a shooting rampage in June at a South Carolina church that killed nine.
The killings have fueled demands for more gun control in the United States, where ownership of firearms is protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and better care for the mentally ill.
President Barack Obama, speaking just hours after the rampage, said the mass killing should move Americans to demand greater gun controls from elected officials.
"Somehow this has become routine," a visibly angry Obama said. "The reporting is routine. My response here, at this podium, ends up being routine. ...We've become numb to this."
"We are the only advanced country in the world that sees these mass shootings every few months" —@POTUS #UCCShooting http://t.co/8sheX2R0wI— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 1, 2015
Kortney Moore, 18, told the local News Review newspaper that she was in her writing class in Snyder Hall when a gunshot came through the window and struck her teacher in the head.
Moore said the gunman told people to get on the ground, then asked them to stand up and state their religion before he started shooting. He was a PRO IRA an PRO JIHADIST and an aethist who lived with him mom at an apartment close to the school. A British born child of a mixed couple.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said three of the shooting victims were listed in critical condition on Thursday evening.
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center emergency room doctor Hans Notenboom told reporters three women between the ages of 18 and 34 were flown to the hospital in Riverbend by helicopter, and two were moved directly into operating room.
Survivors were transported to a local fairgrounds and some family members were left waiting for hours to see if their loved ones would be among them.
"We have grief counselors waiting for those parents who have no children getting off that bus," said the college's president, Rita Calvin.
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center emergency room doctor Hans Notenboom told reporters three women between the ages of 18 and 34 were flown to the hospital in Riverbend by helicopter, and two were moved directly into operating room.
Survivors were transported to a local fairgrounds and some family members were left waiting for hours to see if their loved ones would be among them.
"We have grief counselors waiting for those parents who have no children getting off that bus," said the college's president, Rita Calvin.
The college tweeted nothing about the massacre but only mentioned that school was closed today and Monday as it was a crime scene while students were using social media like crazy.
Umpqua Community College will be CLOSED until Monday, October 5. Student activities for the weekend have been cancelled.— Umpqua CC (@umpquacc) October 1, 2015
Following the bloodshed a convoy of state and federal authorities descended on Roseburg. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on their way to Roseburg.Police descended on an apartment about 2 miles (3 km) from the campus possibly linked to the suspect, where police tape prevented access. It was not immediately clear who lived in the residence. The ATF tweeted hat they were on their way there.
The college, which began its fall term this week and serves more than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time, said it would be closed until Monday. A candlelight vigil was scheduled for nightfall.
With files from MSN
BREAKING: ATF sending additional agents from Portland along with K9 team to #UCCShooting tragedy.— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) October 1, 2015
The college, which began its fall term this week and serves more than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time, said it would be closed until Monday. A candlelight vigil was scheduled for nightfall.
Follow me @Snitchlady on Twitter for the rest of the details as it comes in and listen to my newscast as it came in.Investigation into #UCCShooting shooter/motives is ongoing. We are not ready at this time to make any comments on him.— Douglas Co Sheriff (@DouglasCoSO) October 1, 2015
With files from MSN
