Oregon shooter's mother wrote about guns in online forum, The mother of a apache who dead nine humans and himself at an Oregon association academy accustomed her afflicted son to accept accoutrements and accustomed in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't assume to apperceive he was potentially violent.
The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and action beginning acumen into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his accord with his mother.
The Associated Press didn't allege with Harper about the online postings; a beating on her aperture went changing Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email abode that is affiliated to Harper.
She and Harper-Mercer aggregate an accommodation alfresco Roseburg. Investigators accept recovered 14 accoutrements — six begin at Umpqua Association College, area the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, area they lived afore affective to Oregon in 2013, accept said the two went ambition cutting together.
Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was disturbing with some brainy bloom issues.
In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her adulation of accoutrements and her son's affecting troubles, but there are no hints of anguish that he could become violent.
"I accumulate two abounding mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all accept loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my abode alien afterwards acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.
She was apropos to a Glock blaster and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style burglarize were a part of the weapons bedeviled afterwards the Roseburg cutting rampage.
Laurel Harper wrote in addition posting: "I adulation the continued accoutrements & I accept an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."
She acquaint several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a balmy anatomy of autism.
One announcement reads: "He's no babbling idiot nor is his activity worthless. He's actual able and is alive on a career in filmmaking."
She wrote that she apprehend aloud to her approaching son from Donald Trump's "The Art of The Deal."
Investigators accept not yet said whether they doubtable a motive in endure Thursday's cutting rampage, area Harper-Mercer dead eight acceptance and a abecedary afore killing himself.
While active in California, Harper-Mercer accelerating from a acquirements centermost for acceptance with acquirements disabilities and affecting problems. His parents afar if he was a jailbait and he lived with his mother.
Harper-Mercer's father, Ian Mercer, still lives in California. Over the weekend he said he had no abstraction his son had any guns.
"How on apple could he abridge 13 guns? How could that happen?" Ian Mercer told CNN on Saturday.
The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and action beginning acumen into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his accord with his mother.
The Associated Press didn't allege with Harper about the online postings; a beating on her aperture went changing Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email abode that is affiliated to Harper.
She and Harper-Mercer aggregate an accommodation alfresco Roseburg. Investigators accept recovered 14 accoutrements — six begin at Umpqua Association College, area the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, area they lived afore affective to Oregon in 2013, accept said the two went ambition cutting together.
Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was disturbing with some brainy bloom issues.
In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her adulation of accoutrements and her son's affecting troubles, but there are no hints of anguish that he could become violent.
"I accumulate two abounding mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all accept loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my abode alien afterwards acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.
She was apropos to a Glock blaster and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style burglarize were a part of the weapons bedeviled afterwards the Roseburg cutting rampage.
Laurel Harper wrote in addition posting: "I adulation the continued accoutrements & I accept an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."
She acquaint several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a balmy anatomy of autism.
One announcement reads: "He's no babbling idiot nor is his activity worthless. He's actual able and is alive on a career in filmmaking."
She wrote that she apprehend aloud to her approaching son from Donald Trump's "The Art of The Deal."
Investigators accept not yet said whether they doubtable a motive in endure Thursday's cutting rampage, area Harper-Mercer dead eight acceptance and a abecedary afore killing himself.
While active in California, Harper-Mercer accelerating from a acquirements centermost for acceptance with acquirements disabilities and affecting problems. His parents afar if he was a jailbait and he lived with his mother.
Harper-Mercer's father, Ian Mercer, still lives in California. Over the weekend he said he had no abstraction his son had any guns.
"How on apple could he abridge 13 guns? How could that happen?" Ian Mercer told CNN on Saturday.
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