Survivor: Gunman spared 'lucky one' to give police message, The apache who opened blaze in an Oregon academy attempt one acquaintance afterwards adage he could save her activity by begging, and others were asleep afterwards getting told to clamber beyond the floor, according to ancestors of acceptance in the classroom.
However, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer absolved a apprentice and gave the "lucky one" something to bear to authorities, according to the mother of a apprentice who witnessed Thursday's rampage.
Authorities accept not appear whether they accept an envelope or amalgamation from Harper-Mercer, who Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday asleep himself as admiral arrived. But a law administration official said a acclamation of several pages had been recovered.
Bonnie Schaan, the mother of 16-year-old Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, said she was told by her 16-year-old babe that the apache gave anyone an envelope and told him to go to a bend of the classroom.
Harper-Mercer said the getting "'was traveling to be the advantageous one,'" Schaan told reporters alfresco a hospital area her daughter's branch was removed afterwards she was shot.
Relatives of added survivors of the cutting that asleep nine aswell said Harper-Mercer gave something to a apprentice in the class.
Pastor Randy Scroggins, whose 18-year-old babe Lacey able afterwards 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.'"
Harper-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.
Lacey Scroggins aswell batten about acceptance getting ordered to clamber to the average of the allowance afore getting shot. Scroggins said his babe survived because she was lying on the attic and partially covered by the physique and claret of a adolescent student. The apache anticipation Lacey Scroggins was asleep as well, stepped over her and attempt anyone else.
Randy Scroggins accustomed a buzz alarm from that student's mother while speaking with The Associated Press.
"He adored my girl. I will always alarm your son my hero," he said of 20-year-old Treven Anspach. He told the man's mother he would acknowledgment her son during his Sunday abbey annual and ask for prayers. "I'm so apologetic for your loss."
Janet Willis said her granddaughter Anastasia Boylan was blood-soaked in the Thursday advance and affected to be asleep as Harper-Mercer kept firing, killing eight acceptance and a teacher.
Willis said she visited her 18-year-old granddaughter in a hospital in Eugene, area the bawl Boylan told her: "'Grandma, he asleep my teacher!'"
Boylan aswell said the ballista told one apprentice in the autograph chic to angle in a corner, handed him a amalgamation and told him to bear it to authorities, Willis said.
The law administration official who appear the actuality of the acclamation did not acknowledge its capacity but declared it as an accomplishment to leave a bulletin for law enforcement.
The official is accustomed with the analysis but was not accustomed to acknowledge advice and batten on the action of anonymity.
The official said the certificate was larboard at the arena of the cutting but wouldn't specify how authorities acquired it.
Boylan, a apprentice at Umpqua Community College, aswell told her grandmother the apache asked acceptance about their faith.
"If they said they were Christian, he attempt them in the head," Willis said, citation the annual accustomed by her granddaughter.
However, adverse letters emerged about Harper-Mercer's words as he attempt his victims.
Stephanie Salas, the mother of Rand McGowan, addition apprentice who survived, said she was told by her son that the ballista asked victims whether they were religious but did not accurately ambition Christians.
Salas said it was like cogent the victims "you're traveling to be affair your maker."
Salas said the apache told victims "'this will not aching actual long'" afore cutting them.
Law administration admiral accept not accustomed data about what happened in the classroom. However they appear a timeline that shows badge accustomed at the arena six account afterwards the aboriginal 911 alarm and exchanged battery with the ballista two account later.
Harper-Mercer was enrolled in the class, but admiral accept not appear a accessible motive for the killings. In a account appear by authorities, his ancestors said they were "shocked and acutely saddened" by the slayings.
The asleep ranged in age from 18 to 67 in the advance in Roseburg, a rural balk boondocks about 180 afar south of Portland.
Harper-Mercer wore a abuse anorak and brought at atomic six accoutrements and 5 armament magazines if he went to the campus that morning.
Oregon's top federal prosecutor said the ballista acclimated a blaster if he opened fire.
Several years ago, Harper-Mercer confused to Oregon from Torrance, California, with his mother Laurel Harper.
Harper-Mercer's amusing media profiles appropriate he was absorbed by the Irish Republican Army and balked by acceptable organized religion.
Scroggins said he was beholden his babe survived Harper-Mercer's attack.
"There's been a lot of emotion," he said. "But others don't get their accouchement back."
However, Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer absolved a apprentice and gave the "lucky one" something to bear to authorities, according to the mother of a apprentice who witnessed Thursday's rampage.Authorities accept not appear whether they accept an envelope or amalgamation from Harper-Mercer, who Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday asleep himself as admiral arrived. But a law administration official said a acclamation of several pages had been recovered.
Bonnie Schaan, the mother of 16-year-old Cheyeanne Fitzgerald, said she was told by her 16-year-old babe that the apache gave anyone an envelope and told him to go to a bend of the classroom.
Harper-Mercer said the getting "'was traveling to be the advantageous one,'" Schaan told reporters alfresco a hospital area her daughter's branch was removed afterwards she was shot.
Relatives of added survivors of the cutting that asleep nine aswell said Harper-Mercer gave something to a apprentice in the class.
Pastor Randy Scroggins, whose 18-year-old babe Lacey able afterwards 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.'"
Harper-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.
Lacey Scroggins aswell batten about acceptance getting ordered to clamber to the average of the allowance afore getting shot. Scroggins said his babe survived because she was lying on the attic and partially covered by the physique and claret of a adolescent student. The apache anticipation Lacey Scroggins was asleep as well, stepped over her and attempt anyone else.
Randy Scroggins accustomed a buzz alarm from that student's mother while speaking with The Associated Press.
"He adored my girl. I will always alarm your son my hero," he said of 20-year-old Treven Anspach. He told the man's mother he would acknowledgment her son during his Sunday abbey annual and ask for prayers. "I'm so apologetic for your loss."
Janet Willis said her granddaughter Anastasia Boylan was blood-soaked in the Thursday advance and affected to be asleep as Harper-Mercer kept firing, killing eight acceptance and a teacher.
Willis said she visited her 18-year-old granddaughter in a hospital in Eugene, area the bawl Boylan told her: "'Grandma, he asleep my teacher!'"
Boylan aswell said the ballista told one apprentice in the autograph chic to angle in a corner, handed him a amalgamation and told him to bear it to authorities, Willis said.
The law administration official who appear the actuality of the acclamation did not acknowledge its capacity but declared it as an accomplishment to leave a bulletin for law enforcement.
The official is accustomed with the analysis but was not accustomed to acknowledge advice and batten on the action of anonymity.
The official said the certificate was larboard at the arena of the cutting but wouldn't specify how authorities acquired it.
Boylan, a apprentice at Umpqua Community College, aswell told her grandmother the apache asked acceptance about their faith.
"If they said they were Christian, he attempt them in the head," Willis said, citation the annual accustomed by her granddaughter.
However, adverse letters emerged about Harper-Mercer's words as he attempt his victims.
Stephanie Salas, the mother of Rand McGowan, addition apprentice who survived, said she was told by her son that the ballista asked victims whether they were religious but did not accurately ambition Christians.
Salas said it was like cogent the victims "you're traveling to be affair your maker."
Salas said the apache told victims "'this will not aching actual long'" afore cutting them.
Law administration admiral accept not accustomed data about what happened in the classroom. However they appear a timeline that shows badge accustomed at the arena six account afterwards the aboriginal 911 alarm and exchanged battery with the ballista two account later.
Harper-Mercer was enrolled in the class, but admiral accept not appear a accessible motive for the killings. In a account appear by authorities, his ancestors said they were "shocked and acutely saddened" by the slayings.
The asleep ranged in age from 18 to 67 in the advance in Roseburg, a rural balk boondocks about 180 afar south of Portland.
Harper-Mercer wore a abuse anorak and brought at atomic six accoutrements and 5 armament magazines if he went to the campus that morning.
Oregon's top federal prosecutor said the ballista acclimated a blaster if he opened fire.
Several years ago, Harper-Mercer confused to Oregon from Torrance, California, with his mother Laurel Harper.
Harper-Mercer's amusing media profiles appropriate he was absorbed by the Irish Republican Army and balked by acceptable organized religion.
Scroggins said he was beholden his babe survived Harper-Mercer's attack.
"There's been a lot of emotion," he said. "But others don't get their accouchement back."
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