Thursday, October 1, 2015

Shooter Kills Ten People At Oregon Community College [UPDATE: 13 Killed]

In a shooting incident at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Oregon, 10 people have been killed and 20 others wounded.  The shooting reportedly started around 10:40 a.m. PDT.  The shooter, described so far only as being a man, has been taken into custody.

Read more at Q13 Fox, NBC News, KATU, CNN and Oregon Live.

UPDATE:  NBC, KATU and OL are now reporting that up to 13 people were killed.  CNN now indicates that the shooter is dead, and was 20 years old.

UPDATE 2:  The News Review, which serves Roseburg and Douglas County, reports what happened from the perspective of a student.
Kortney Moore, 18, from Rogue River, was in her Writing 115 class in Snyder Hall when one shot came through a window. She saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter was inside at that point, and he told people to get on the ground. The shooter was asking people to stand up and state their religion and then started firing away, Moore said. Moore was lying there with people who had been shot.
This link comes via Gateway Pundit, who gets kudos for finding a local source.

UPDATE 3:  According to the NBC and OL links above, the shooter has been identified as Chris Harper Mercer, who was 26.  The International Business Times likewise reports the shooter's identity, and also reports that the shootings occurred in at least two buildings on campus and that four guns were recovered at the scene.

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