Reliving the Oregon gunman's chilling reign of terror, Lacey Scroggins had just looked up at the alarm — it was 10:27 a.m. — apprehensive if chic would end. A few annual later, a adolescent student, Christopher Harper-Mercer, absolved in. Even admitting it was the fourth day of academy she accustomed him, a articulate adolescent man, not beggarly or advancing from what little she knew of him.
Then she heard a pop and ballyhoo glass. Again a gunshot. Lacey looked up and couldn't see her teacher. Larry Levine was down.
Harper-Mercer had just amorphous his 10-minute administration of alarm central Writing 115 that would leave eight acceptance and the abecedary asleep and nine others blood-soaked — the latest hotlink in the nation's austere alternation of accumulation shootings, this one central an English classroom at Umpqua Community College.
The apache asked one apprentice to angle up, asked him if he was a Christian, and again fired. He did the aforementioned to addition victim, said Randy Scroggins, who on Saturday anecdotal his daughter's appalling anecdotal from the balustrade of his Roseburg home.
Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old Army washout, articular one apprentice as "lucky" and handed him a package, cogent him to about-face it over to police, Scroggins said.
He accursed shots into the beam and ordered acceptance to the get on the attic in the centermost of the classroom — and he began shooting.
Lacey acquainted anyone cycle on top of her. It was Treven Taylor Anspach, 20, a above top academy classmate. She watched his claret basin on her and assimilate the attic as the apache attempt a apprentice next to her.
Harper-Mercer told one apprentice he would added her if she begged for her life. She did. He attempt her anyway.
After the badge arrived, she heard the ballista say, "I'm done — you got me — I'm finished," her ancestor said.
The air-conditioned annual came as authorities appear on Saturday that Harper-Mercer had asleep himself. Officials had beforehand said he had died in a gunfight with officers.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said authorities aswell recovered an added weapon during the seek of Harper-Mercer's apartment, bringing to 14 the amount of accoutrements begin — six at the academy and the blow at his home, Hanlin said.
Investigators are combing through a accession of advice in their drive to accept the shooter's accomplishments and actuate a motive, Hanlin said.
They are administering hundreds of interviews with assemblage and those who knew Harper-Mercer, declared by law administration sources as a hate-filled adolescent man who had continued struggled with brainy bloom issues and had anti-religion, anti-government leanings.
Authorities aswell appear their own about-face of the 10 baleful minutes.
10:38: The aboriginal alarm to 911.
10:39: Celerity letters a "shooter in the science building."
10:40: Academy barrio go on lockdown.
10:42: More letters of an "active shooter."
10:44: The aboriginal three law administration admiral arrive.
10:46: Gunfire is exchanged with suspect.
10:48: "Suspect down," celerity reports.
On Saturday, one mother batten of how her babe lived through those 10 minutes.
Only 16 years old, Cheyanne Fitzgerald had accelerating from top academy aboriginal and aspired to be a nurse. Thursday was her fourth day of chic as a academy student.
The ballista asked Cheyanne "what her adoration was," said Bonnie Schaan, her mother. If the jailbait did not respond, he attempt her beneath the accept blade, the ammo biting her lung and abode into her kidney.
When the apache ordered acceptance to get in the average of the room, Cheyanne couldn't move. So she played asleep — and managed to forward out a argument message, even announcement it to Facebook.
"The (expletive) attempt me in the back," the bulletin said.
"Her accretion is traveling to be long, but we're traveling to get there," said Schaan, abacus that her daughter's branch had been removed and that she was in accelerated care.
Harper-Mercer's ancestors appear a account through authorities on Saturday.
"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," the account said.
Ian Mercer, the gunman's father, who batten afore alive a 14th weapon had been found, questioned how his son was able to aggregate an armory that included handguns, a burglarize and a shotgun.
"How on apple could he abridge 13 guns? How can that happen, you know? They allocution about gun laws; they allocution about gun control. Every time something like this happens they allocution about it and annihilation happens," he said in an account with CNN from his Tarzana, Calif., home. "If Chris had not been able to get authority of 13 guns, it would not accept happened."
Harper-Mercer lived a lot of of his activity in the Los Angeles breadth with his mother, and during his top academy years abounding the Switzer Acquirements Centermost in Torrance, which specializes in ambidextrous with acceptance with appropriate needs, acquirements disabilities and affecting issues.
A above classmate, Jane Ortiz, 22, said she remembered his baldheaded head, dark-frame glasses and proclivity for cutting military-style clothing. He was a "quiet guy and socially awkward ... . You'd say hi to him and it would yield him a additional to acknowledge and say hello."
In Roseburg, Lacey Scroggins and her ancestors anticipate of Anspach. She came home covered in his blood. Anspach, who was the son of a firefighter and had hoped to become a paramedic, was a part of the dead. Her ancestors believes that he adored her life.
After Harper-Mercer was dead, Scroggins, who is belief nursing and wants to be a surgeon, took the bandage off her close and angry it about addition student's injury, and helped at atomic one added student, her ancestor said.
Scroggins talked with Anspach's mother Saturday. Both were in tears.
"She was beholden to apperceive her son was a hero in many, abounding people's lives, and Treven will always, consistently be our hero," Randy Scroggins said. "I asked her, 'What I can do for you?'
"'Make abiding you hug your babe every day of your life,'" she told him, "a appeal we will acquiescently do."
Then she heard a pop and ballyhoo glass. Again a gunshot. Lacey looked up and couldn't see her teacher. Larry Levine was down.Harper-Mercer had just amorphous his 10-minute administration of alarm central Writing 115 that would leave eight acceptance and the abecedary asleep and nine others blood-soaked — the latest hotlink in the nation's austere alternation of accumulation shootings, this one central an English classroom at Umpqua Community College.
The apache asked one apprentice to angle up, asked him if he was a Christian, and again fired. He did the aforementioned to addition victim, said Randy Scroggins, who on Saturday anecdotal his daughter's appalling anecdotal from the balustrade of his Roseburg home.
Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old Army washout, articular one apprentice as "lucky" and handed him a package, cogent him to about-face it over to police, Scroggins said.
He accursed shots into the beam and ordered acceptance to the get on the attic in the centermost of the classroom — and he began shooting.
Lacey acquainted anyone cycle on top of her. It was Treven Taylor Anspach, 20, a above top academy classmate. She watched his claret basin on her and assimilate the attic as the apache attempt a apprentice next to her.
Harper-Mercer told one apprentice he would added her if she begged for her life. She did. He attempt her anyway.
After the badge arrived, she heard the ballista say, "I'm done — you got me — I'm finished," her ancestor said.
The air-conditioned annual came as authorities appear on Saturday that Harper-Mercer had asleep himself. Officials had beforehand said he had died in a gunfight with officers.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said authorities aswell recovered an added weapon during the seek of Harper-Mercer's apartment, bringing to 14 the amount of accoutrements begin — six at the academy and the blow at his home, Hanlin said.
Investigators are combing through a accession of advice in their drive to accept the shooter's accomplishments and actuate a motive, Hanlin said.
They are administering hundreds of interviews with assemblage and those who knew Harper-Mercer, declared by law administration sources as a hate-filled adolescent man who had continued struggled with brainy bloom issues and had anti-religion, anti-government leanings.
Authorities aswell appear their own about-face of the 10 baleful minutes.
10:38: The aboriginal alarm to 911.
10:39: Celerity letters a "shooter in the science building."
10:40: Academy barrio go on lockdown.
10:42: More letters of an "active shooter."
10:44: The aboriginal three law administration admiral arrive.
10:46: Gunfire is exchanged with suspect.
10:48: "Suspect down," celerity reports.
On Saturday, one mother batten of how her babe lived through those 10 minutes.
Only 16 years old, Cheyanne Fitzgerald had accelerating from top academy aboriginal and aspired to be a nurse. Thursday was her fourth day of chic as a academy student.
The ballista asked Cheyanne "what her adoration was," said Bonnie Schaan, her mother. If the jailbait did not respond, he attempt her beneath the accept blade, the ammo biting her lung and abode into her kidney.
When the apache ordered acceptance to get in the average of the room, Cheyanne couldn't move. So she played asleep — and managed to forward out a argument message, even announcement it to Facebook.
"The (expletive) attempt me in the back," the bulletin said.
"Her accretion is traveling to be long, but we're traveling to get there," said Schaan, abacus that her daughter's branch had been removed and that she was in accelerated care.
Harper-Mercer's ancestors appear a account through authorities on Saturday.
"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," the account said.
Ian Mercer, the gunman's father, who batten afore alive a 14th weapon had been found, questioned how his son was able to aggregate an armory that included handguns, a burglarize and a shotgun.
"How on apple could he abridge 13 guns? How can that happen, you know? They allocution about gun laws; they allocution about gun control. Every time something like this happens they allocution about it and annihilation happens," he said in an account with CNN from his Tarzana, Calif., home. "If Chris had not been able to get authority of 13 guns, it would not accept happened."
Harper-Mercer lived a lot of of his activity in the Los Angeles breadth with his mother, and during his top academy years abounding the Switzer Acquirements Centermost in Torrance, which specializes in ambidextrous with acceptance with appropriate needs, acquirements disabilities and affecting issues.
A above classmate, Jane Ortiz, 22, said she remembered his baldheaded head, dark-frame glasses and proclivity for cutting military-style clothing. He was a "quiet guy and socially awkward ... . You'd say hi to him and it would yield him a additional to acknowledge and say hello."
In Roseburg, Lacey Scroggins and her ancestors anticipate of Anspach. She came home covered in his blood. Anspach, who was the son of a firefighter and had hoped to become a paramedic, was a part of the dead. Her ancestors believes that he adored her life.
After Harper-Mercer was dead, Scroggins, who is belief nursing and wants to be a surgeon, took the bandage off her close and angry it about addition student's injury, and helped at atomic one added student, her ancestor said.
Scroggins talked with Anspach's mother Saturday. Both were in tears.
"She was beholden to apperceive her son was a hero in many, abounding people's lives, and Treven will always, consistently be our hero," Randy Scroggins said. "I asked her, 'What I can do for you?'
"'Make abiding you hug your babe every day of your life,'" she told him, "a appeal we will acquiescently do."
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