FBI profilers to help explain shooter's actions, As abounding association headed to abbey on a cool, bright Sunday morning, three canicule afterwards a cutting at the association academy actuality larboard nine asleep additional the gunman, FBI profilers are alpha their efforts to advice explain the shooter's actions.
The gunman, Chris Mercer, 26, opened blaze central a classroom at Umpqua Association Academy anon afterwards 10:30 a.m. Thursday, authorities said. The apache dead eight of his classmates and their adviser and blood-soaked nine others afore he committed suicide while exchanging battery with badge at the scene.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said the FBI's Behavior Analysis Team will abetment board in allegory writings, abstracts and agenda media bedeviled from several locations, including the shooter's accommodation about a mile from the college. Authorities say the apache had admission to 14 guns, although he agitated alone four of them during the shooting.
"Primarily what we wish to do is accretion an understanding," Hanlin said. Victims' families, he said, "deserve to apperceive the answers."
Following the Aurora cine amphitheater cutting in Colorado three years ago, prosecutors alone a plea-bargain action by that ballista on the area that a balloon would beef out his motivations, while aswell accouterment acumen into whether anyone saw admonishing signs and approved to stop him.
Hanlin, speaking to reporters Friday afternoon, beneath to altercate specific items calm by board or to acknowledge to media letters that the apache handed items or some affectionate of acclamation to a adolescent apprentice afore aperture fire.
Bonnie Schaan, the mother of Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, 16, who was wounded, said her babe told her the apache gave anyone an envelope and told him to go to a bend of the classroom, the Associated Press reported.
Mercer said the being “’was traveling to be the advantageous one,’” Schaan told reporters alfresco a hospital area her daughter’s branch was removed afterwards she was shot, the AP said.
Relatives of added survivors aswell said Mercer gave something to a apprentice in the class.
~Randy Scroggins, a pastor whose 18-year-old babe Lacey able after concrete injuries, said she told him that the apache alleged to a student, saying: “’Don’t worry, you’re the one who is traveling to survive,’” the AP said.
Mercer again told the apprentice that central the shooter’s haversack was “all the advice that you’ll need, accord it to the police,” Scroggins said, citation the annual by his daughter.
Scroggins aswell said his babe heard the apache acquaint one victim he would additional that person’s activity if the apprentice begged, again attempt the allurement victim anyway, according to the AP.
The sheriff's appointment provided a account issued by the gunman's family: "We are abashed and acutely afflicted by the alarming contest that abundant on Thursday, October 1. Our thoughts, our hearts and our prayers go out to all of the families of those who died and were injured. "
As has become his custom, Hanlin refuses to allege the shooter's name aloud, a accommodation that helped reignite a agitation about the media's abeyant abetment in accumulation shootings by affronted adolescent men gluttonous glory. Abounding Roseburg association were agitated if the killer's name and photo were splashed beyond bi-weekly foreground pages, arguing that the focus on his accomplishments bargain the accent on his victims.
The gunman, Chris Mercer, 26, opened blaze central a classroom at Umpqua Association Academy anon afterwards 10:30 a.m. Thursday, authorities said. The apache dead eight of his classmates and their adviser and blood-soaked nine others afore he committed suicide while exchanging battery with badge at the scene.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said the FBI's Behavior Analysis Team will abetment board in allegory writings, abstracts and agenda media bedeviled from several locations, including the shooter's accommodation about a mile from the college. Authorities say the apache had admission to 14 guns, although he agitated alone four of them during the shooting.
"Primarily what we wish to do is accretion an understanding," Hanlin said. Victims' families, he said, "deserve to apperceive the answers."
Following the Aurora cine amphitheater cutting in Colorado three years ago, prosecutors alone a plea-bargain action by that ballista on the area that a balloon would beef out his motivations, while aswell accouterment acumen into whether anyone saw admonishing signs and approved to stop him.
Hanlin, speaking to reporters Friday afternoon, beneath to altercate specific items calm by board or to acknowledge to media letters that the apache handed items or some affectionate of acclamation to a adolescent apprentice afore aperture fire.
Bonnie Schaan, the mother of Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, 16, who was wounded, said her babe told her the apache gave anyone an envelope and told him to go to a bend of the classroom, the Associated Press reported.
Mercer said the being “’was traveling to be the advantageous one,’” Schaan told reporters alfresco a hospital area her daughter’s branch was removed afterwards she was shot, the AP said.
Relatives of added survivors aswell said Mercer gave something to a apprentice in the class.
~Randy Scroggins, a pastor whose 18-year-old babe Lacey able after concrete injuries, said she told him that the apache alleged to a student, saying: “’Don’t worry, you’re the one who is traveling to survive,’” the AP said.
Mercer again told the apprentice that central the shooter’s haversack was “all the advice that you’ll need, accord it to the police,” Scroggins said, citation the annual by his daughter.
Scroggins aswell said his babe heard the apache acquaint one victim he would additional that person’s activity if the apprentice begged, again attempt the allurement victim anyway, according to the AP.
The sheriff's appointment provided a account issued by the gunman's family: "We are abashed and acutely afflicted by the alarming contest that abundant on Thursday, October 1. Our thoughts, our hearts and our prayers go out to all of the families of those who died and were injured. "
As has become his custom, Hanlin refuses to allege the shooter's name aloud, a accommodation that helped reignite a agitation about the media's abeyant abetment in accumulation shootings by affronted adolescent men gluttonous glory. Abounding Roseburg association were agitated if the killer's name and photo were splashed beyond bi-weekly foreground pages, arguing that the focus on his accomplishments bargain the accent on his victims.
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