Student slain in Oregon college shooting honored at memorial, Mourners on Thursday remembered a apprentice who was a allotment of 10 humans who died in a cutting binge at an Oregon association college, in the aboriginal of a alternation of about appear canonizing casework for the victims.
The account for Jason Johnson, 33, took abode a anniversary afterwards apache Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, opened blaze at Umpqua Association Academy in the above balk boondocks of Roseburg. Police exchanged battery with Harper-Mercer, and afterwards he was wounded, he attempt himself to death.
The annihilation ranks as the deadliest U.S. cutting in two years.
Friends and ancestors of Johnson, who has ahead been declared by ancestors as appreciative of accepting enrolled in academy and for getting Christian, came to a ample white-sided abbey in Roseburg to pay their respects.
Harper-Mercer is said to accept asked victims their adoration afore he attempt them, which afflicted abounding humans in Roseburg and beyond.
"These kids who were dead were martyrs," said Sandy DeFrees, 73, a Roseburg citizen who stood abreast the church.
About 200 humans lined the artery abreast Abbey on the Rise for a account that apparent the aboriginal about appear canonizing for a victim of the massacre.
Many assemblage coiled American flags.
"When an accident like this comes about, humans charge anyone to angular on, that's why we’re here," said Mac McAllister, 73, a retired balk artisan who is allotment of a Christian motorcycle club that stood abreast the church.
The account was bankrupt to associates of the media. Other memorials are planned for the advancing days.
Johnson's account occurred on the aforementioned day admiral at a Roseburg hospital said Army adept Chris Mintz, 30, the man accustomed with acceptable extenuative lives during the advance by blocking a aperture to a classroom afore he was attempt assorted times, accepted he had been released.
He was one of nine humans wounded.
Doctors at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, arctic of Roseburg, said on Thursday 19-year-old Julie Woodworth is convalescent afterwards she was airlifted to the hospital with gunshot wounds to her head, accoutrements and legs.
"She's out of the dupe as far as the above swelling" about the brain, said neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Roundy. He added that Woodworth is awake, but not talking.
The annihilation has reignited the civic agitation over gun control.
President Barack Obama is appointed to biking to Roseburg on Friday to accommodated with families of the victims.
The account for Jason Johnson, 33, took abode a anniversary afterwards apache Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, opened blaze at Umpqua Association Academy in the above balk boondocks of Roseburg. Police exchanged battery with Harper-Mercer, and afterwards he was wounded, he attempt himself to death.
The annihilation ranks as the deadliest U.S. cutting in two years.
Friends and ancestors of Johnson, who has ahead been declared by ancestors as appreciative of accepting enrolled in academy and for getting Christian, came to a ample white-sided abbey in Roseburg to pay their respects.
Harper-Mercer is said to accept asked victims their adoration afore he attempt them, which afflicted abounding humans in Roseburg and beyond.
"These kids who were dead were martyrs," said Sandy DeFrees, 73, a Roseburg citizen who stood abreast the church.
About 200 humans lined the artery abreast Abbey on the Rise for a account that apparent the aboriginal about appear canonizing for a victim of the massacre.
Many assemblage coiled American flags.
"When an accident like this comes about, humans charge anyone to angular on, that's why we’re here," said Mac McAllister, 73, a retired balk artisan who is allotment of a Christian motorcycle club that stood abreast the church.
The account was bankrupt to associates of the media. Other memorials are planned for the advancing days.
Johnson's account occurred on the aforementioned day admiral at a Roseburg hospital said Army adept Chris Mintz, 30, the man accustomed with acceptable extenuative lives during the advance by blocking a aperture to a classroom afore he was attempt assorted times, accepted he had been released.
He was one of nine humans wounded.
Doctors at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, arctic of Roseburg, said on Thursday 19-year-old Julie Woodworth is convalescent afterwards she was airlifted to the hospital with gunshot wounds to her head, accoutrements and legs.
"She's out of the dupe as far as the above swelling" about the brain, said neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Roundy. He added that Woodworth is awake, but not talking.
The annihilation has reignited the civic agitation over gun control.
President Barack Obama is appointed to biking to Roseburg on Friday to accommodated with families of the victims.
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