Shooter who killed 9, wounded 7 at Oregon college identified - A apache opened blaze at a association academy in southwest Oregon on Thursday, killing nine humans and acid seven others afore badge attempt him to death, authorities said, in the latest accumulation killing to bedrock an American campus.
The doubtable was collapsed in an barter of battery with badge in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Association Academy in Roseburg afterward the binge anon afterwards 10:30 a.m. bounded time (1730 GMT).
He was not articular by authorities, who said they were still investigating his motives, but CBS, CNN and NBC called him as 26-year-old Chris Harper, citation bearding law administration sources.
CNN appear that three handguns and a "long gun" acceptance to him were recovered from the scene.
The annihilation in Roseburg, a above balk boondocks in Umpqua River Valley, is the latest in a alternation of accumulation shootings at U.S. academy campuses, cine theaters, aggressive bases and churches in contempo years. It apparent the deadliest back a cutting binge in June at a South Carolina abbey that asleep nine.
The killings accept fueled demands for added gun ascendancy in the United States, area buying of accoutrements is adequate by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and bigger affliction for the mentally ill.
President Barack Obama, speaking just hours afterwards the rampage, said the accumulation killing should move Americans to appeal greater gun controls from adopted officials.
"Somehow this has become routine," a visibly affronted Obama said. "The advertisement is routine. My acknowledgment here, at this podium, ends up accepting routine. ...We've become aloof to this."
Kortney Moore, 18, told the bounded News Review bi-weekly that she was in her autograph chic in Snyder Hall if a gunshot came through the window and addled her abecedary in the head.
Moore said the apache told humans to get on the ground, again asked them to angle up and accompaniment their adoration afore he started shooting.
Freshman Kenny Ungerman told NBC that said he saw the shooter, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, accustomed a blaster as he went into the building, followed by gunshots and screams. Apprentice Cassandra Welding told CNN that she heard 35 to 40 shots.
Student Brady Winder, in a announcement on Facebook, said he was in a classroom next aperture to the allowance area the cutting began and ran, forth with his classmates, if they heard the gunfire.
"I ran to the bend of the campus, down a acropolis and waited. From talking with a apprentice in the classroom area it happen, about every being in the allowance was attempt by a man with four guns," Winder, 23, wrote.
"I'm still annoyed up ... I can't blanket my apperception about this. Please just adjure for the families and parents of these students," he posted.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said three of the cutting victims were listed in analytical action on Thursday evening.
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center emergency allowance doctor Hans Notenboom told reporters three women amid the ages of 18 and 34 were aureate to the hospital in Riverbend by helicopter, and two were confused anon into operating room.
Survivors were transported to a bounded fairgrounds and some ancestors associates were larboard cat-and-mouse for hours to see if their admired ones would be a part of them.
"We accept affliction attorneys cat-and-mouse for those parents who accept no accouchement accepting off that bus," said the college's president, Rita Calvin.
Following the action a accompany of accompaniment and federal authorities descended on Roseburg. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Accoutrements and Explosives were on their way to Roseburg.
The college, which began its abatement appellation this anniversary and serves added than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time, said it would be bankrupt until Monday. A candlelight acuity was appointed for nightfall.
In 2012, seven acceptance at the baby Christian academy Oikos University in Oakland, California, were attempt asleep by a above student, appearance the deadliest access of abandon at a U.S. academy back April 2007, if a apprentice at Virginia Tech University asleep 32 humans and blood-soaked 25 others afore demography his own life.
The doubtable was collapsed in an barter of battery with badge in Snyder Hall at Umpqua Association Academy in Roseburg afterward the binge anon afterwards 10:30 a.m. bounded time (1730 GMT).
He was not articular by authorities, who said they were still investigating his motives, but CBS, CNN and NBC called him as 26-year-old Chris Harper, citation bearding law administration sources.
CNN appear that three handguns and a "long gun" acceptance to him were recovered from the scene.
The annihilation in Roseburg, a above balk boondocks in Umpqua River Valley, is the latest in a alternation of accumulation shootings at U.S. academy campuses, cine theaters, aggressive bases and churches in contempo years. It apparent the deadliest back a cutting binge in June at a South Carolina abbey that asleep nine.
The killings accept fueled demands for added gun ascendancy in the United States, area buying of accoutrements is adequate by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and bigger affliction for the mentally ill.
President Barack Obama, speaking just hours afterwards the rampage, said the accumulation killing should move Americans to appeal greater gun controls from adopted officials.
"Somehow this has become routine," a visibly affronted Obama said. "The advertisement is routine. My acknowledgment here, at this podium, ends up accepting routine. ...We've become aloof to this."
Kortney Moore, 18, told the bounded News Review bi-weekly that she was in her autograph chic in Snyder Hall if a gunshot came through the window and addled her abecedary in the head.
Moore said the apache told humans to get on the ground, again asked them to angle up and accompaniment their adoration afore he started shooting.
Freshman Kenny Ungerman told NBC that said he saw the shooter, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, accustomed a blaster as he went into the building, followed by gunshots and screams. Apprentice Cassandra Welding told CNN that she heard 35 to 40 shots.
Student Brady Winder, in a announcement on Facebook, said he was in a classroom next aperture to the allowance area the cutting began and ran, forth with his classmates, if they heard the gunfire.
"I ran to the bend of the campus, down a acropolis and waited. From talking with a apprentice in the classroom area it happen, about every being in the allowance was attempt by a man with four guns," Winder, 23, wrote.
"I'm still annoyed up ... I can't blanket my apperception about this. Please just adjure for the families and parents of these students," he posted.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said three of the cutting victims were listed in analytical action on Thursday evening.
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center emergency allowance doctor Hans Notenboom told reporters three women amid the ages of 18 and 34 were aureate to the hospital in Riverbend by helicopter, and two were confused anon into operating room.
Survivors were transported to a bounded fairgrounds and some ancestors associates were larboard cat-and-mouse for hours to see if their admired ones would be a part of them.
"We accept affliction attorneys cat-and-mouse for those parents who accept no accouchement accepting off that bus," said the college's president, Rita Calvin.
Following the action a accompany of accompaniment and federal authorities descended on Roseburg. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Accoutrements and Explosives were on their way to Roseburg.
The college, which began its abatement appellation this anniversary and serves added than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time, said it would be bankrupt until Monday. A candlelight acuity was appointed for nightfall.
In 2012, seven acceptance at the baby Christian academy Oikos University in Oakland, California, were attempt asleep by a above student, appearance the deadliest access of abandon at a U.S. academy back April 2007, if a apprentice at Virginia Tech University asleep 32 humans and blood-soaked 25 others afore demography his own life.
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