Oregon Shooting Victims, Chris Harper-Mercer, the ballista abaft the baleful binge at Umpqua Community Academy in Roseburg, Oregon, allegedly committed suicide afterwards exchanging battery with officers, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday.
A timeline appear by board shows that the aboriginal 911 alarm about the Thursday's cutting came at 10:38 a.m.
Six account later, Hanlin said, two Roseburg badge admiral and a accompaniment trooper accustomed on the scene. At 10:46 a.m., the admiral exchanged battery with Harper-Mercer. Two account later, there was a abode of "suspect down," according to the timeline.
Hanlin said the accompaniment medical examiner bent the gunman's afterlife was a suicide. Accompaniment badge are investigating the shootout.The ancestor of the apache told CNN that he was devastated by the account that his son was the analgesic and that his affection went out to all afflicted families.
"I apperceive words cannot accompany families back. I apperceive there's annihilation that I can say that can change what happened," Ian Mercer said alfresco his home in California. "But amuse accept me, my thoughts are with all of those families and I achievement they can get through this."
Mercer said his son lived in Oregon with his mother and he hadn't credible his son aback they confused two years ago. Ancestor and son had a acceptable relationship, he said. They talked and went out to banquet and did things sons and dads do, the ancestor said.Mercer said he was blind his son had firearms.
"I had no abstraction he had any guns. I accept no abstraction that he had any accoutrements whatsoever," Mercer said. "And I'm a abundant accepter you don't buy guns, don't buy guns, you don't buy guns."
Mercer wouldn't animadversion on whether his son had affecting or brainy issues. That is for board to determine, he said.
The victims
The nine victims who died in the annihilation ranged in age from 18 to 67, Hanlin said.
Those asleep are Lucero Alcaraz, 19; Treven Taylor Anspach, 20; Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18; Quinn Glen Cooper, 18; Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59; Lucas Eibel, 18; Jason Dale Johnson, 34; Lawrence Levine, 67; and Sarena Dawn Moore, 44.
Ages of Umpqua's acceptance alter widely. Of its 13,600 students, the boilerplate age was 38 during the 2013-2014 academy year.
Bonnie Schaan said at a account appointment Saturday that her daughter, Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, told her the ballista handed an envelope to one getting in the allowance and told that apprentice he was the advantageous one and to angle in the corner.
Fitzgerald was asked her adoration and if she didn't answer, she was attempt in the back, her mother said. The ammo abrupt one lung and lodged in a kidney, which doctors removed.
Her babe survived by arena dead, Schaan said. Fitzgerald charcoal in analytical condition.
Who were the victims?
14 accoutrements found
Investigators begin 14 accoutrements affiliated to the shooter, authorities said.
Five pistols and one burglarize were begin at the college. Badge searched his accommodation and initially begin two pistols, four rifles and a shotgun, Celinez Nunez of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Accoutrements and Explosives said. Hanlin said board afterwards credible addition blaster at the shooter's home.
All the weapons were accurately acquired by the ballista or ancestors associates over the accomplished three years through a federally accountant accoutrements dealer, authorities said.
A abuse anorak was begin next to a burglarize at the academy with 5 magazines of ammunition, Nunez said. Additional armament was begin at the residence.
The blog posts
Investigators are advancing blog posts by anyone with an email abode associated with Harper-Mercer. The writings cover animosity of acrimony about getting abandoned and clumsy to anatomy relationships, law administration admiral said.
Two admiral said that afterwards the shooting, the gunman's ancestors told board that he suffered from brainy bloom issues and had approved treatment.
The writings aswell reflect an credible allure with the Irish Republican Army, one law administration official said. A MySpace page believed to accord to the apache included photos of him and aswell photos of IRA posters.
No hotlink to organized groups
The posts were larboard beneath the user name "lithium_love." Two of them were accurately about contempo shootings -- one about Vester Flanagan, who asleep two bounded account reporters in Virginia, and one about an administrator collapsed abreast Houston in August.
Speaking of Flanagan on August 31, the blog column reads: "I accept noticed that so abounding humans like him are all abandoned and unknown, yet if they discharge a little blood, the accomplished apple knows who they are. ... Seems the added humans you kill, the added you're in the limelight."
Investigators accept begin no adumbration the ballista was affiliated with any organized groups.
Shooter was enrolled in class
The ballista served in the Army from November to December of 2008 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, but was "discharged for declining to accommodated the minimum authoritative standards," the Pentagon said.
He abounding El Camino Academy in Torrance, California, from 2010 to 2012, according to a academy spokesman.
Harper-Mercer was a apprentice at Umpqua and was enrolled in English and amphitheater classes, said Rita Cavin, acting admiral of the school.
He initially opened blaze in an English class, she said.
A timeline appear by board shows that the aboriginal 911 alarm about the Thursday's cutting came at 10:38 a.m.
Six account later, Hanlin said, two Roseburg badge admiral and a accompaniment trooper accustomed on the scene. At 10:46 a.m., the admiral exchanged battery with Harper-Mercer. Two account later, there was a abode of "suspect down," according to the timeline.
Hanlin said the accompaniment medical examiner bent the gunman's afterlife was a suicide. Accompaniment badge are investigating the shootout.The ancestor of the apache told CNN that he was devastated by the account that his son was the analgesic and that his affection went out to all afflicted families.
"I apperceive words cannot accompany families back. I apperceive there's annihilation that I can say that can change what happened," Ian Mercer said alfresco his home in California. "But amuse accept me, my thoughts are with all of those families and I achievement they can get through this."
Mercer said his son lived in Oregon with his mother and he hadn't credible his son aback they confused two years ago. Ancestor and son had a acceptable relationship, he said. They talked and went out to banquet and did things sons and dads do, the ancestor said.Mercer said he was blind his son had firearms.
"I had no abstraction he had any guns. I accept no abstraction that he had any accoutrements whatsoever," Mercer said. "And I'm a abundant accepter you don't buy guns, don't buy guns, you don't buy guns."
Mercer wouldn't animadversion on whether his son had affecting or brainy issues. That is for board to determine, he said.
The victims
The nine victims who died in the annihilation ranged in age from 18 to 67, Hanlin said.
Those asleep are Lucero Alcaraz, 19; Treven Taylor Anspach, 20; Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18; Quinn Glen Cooper, 18; Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59; Lucas Eibel, 18; Jason Dale Johnson, 34; Lawrence Levine, 67; and Sarena Dawn Moore, 44.
Ages of Umpqua's acceptance alter widely. Of its 13,600 students, the boilerplate age was 38 during the 2013-2014 academy year.
Bonnie Schaan said at a account appointment Saturday that her daughter, Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, told her the ballista handed an envelope to one getting in the allowance and told that apprentice he was the advantageous one and to angle in the corner.
Fitzgerald was asked her adoration and if she didn't answer, she was attempt in the back, her mother said. The ammo abrupt one lung and lodged in a kidney, which doctors removed.
Her babe survived by arena dead, Schaan said. Fitzgerald charcoal in analytical condition.
Who were the victims?
14 accoutrements found
Investigators begin 14 accoutrements affiliated to the shooter, authorities said.
Five pistols and one burglarize were begin at the college. Badge searched his accommodation and initially begin two pistols, four rifles and a shotgun, Celinez Nunez of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Accoutrements and Explosives said. Hanlin said board afterwards credible addition blaster at the shooter's home.
All the weapons were accurately acquired by the ballista or ancestors associates over the accomplished three years through a federally accountant accoutrements dealer, authorities said.
A abuse anorak was begin next to a burglarize at the academy with 5 magazines of ammunition, Nunez said. Additional armament was begin at the residence.
The blog posts
Investigators are advancing blog posts by anyone with an email abode associated with Harper-Mercer. The writings cover animosity of acrimony about getting abandoned and clumsy to anatomy relationships, law administration admiral said.
Two admiral said that afterwards the shooting, the gunman's ancestors told board that he suffered from brainy bloom issues and had approved treatment.
The writings aswell reflect an credible allure with the Irish Republican Army, one law administration official said. A MySpace page believed to accord to the apache included photos of him and aswell photos of IRA posters.
No hotlink to organized groups
The posts were larboard beneath the user name "lithium_love." Two of them were accurately about contempo shootings -- one about Vester Flanagan, who asleep two bounded account reporters in Virginia, and one about an administrator collapsed abreast Houston in August.
Speaking of Flanagan on August 31, the blog column reads: "I accept noticed that so abounding humans like him are all abandoned and unknown, yet if they discharge a little blood, the accomplished apple knows who they are. ... Seems the added humans you kill, the added you're in the limelight."
Investigators accept begin no adumbration the ballista was affiliated with any organized groups.
Shooter was enrolled in class
The ballista served in the Army from November to December of 2008 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, but was "discharged for declining to accommodated the minimum authoritative standards," the Pentagon said.
He abounding El Camino Academy in Torrance, California, from 2010 to 2012, according to a academy spokesman.
Harper-Mercer was a apprentice at Umpqua and was enrolled in English and amphitheater classes, said Rita Cavin, acting admiral of the school.
He initially opened blaze in an English class, she said.
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