The 26-year-old analgesic who gunned down classmates central an Oregon academy absolved a apprentice and gave the "lucky one" something to bear to authorities, according to the mother of a apprentice who witnessed the rampage.
Shooter Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer afterwards asleep himself as admiral arrived, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday.
Authorities accept not appear whether they accept an envelope or amalgamation from Harper-Mercer.
However, a law administration official said Saturday 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 babe had her branch removed afterwards getting shot.
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! ... I saw it!'"
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.
Her son said the ballista had humans angle up afore asking, "'Do you accept a God? Are you Christian? Do you accept a religion?'"
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 chic 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 and that their prayers went out to the families of those who died and were injured.
The asleep ranged in age from 18 to 67 and included several freshmen. They were sons and daughters, spouses and parents.
Lucas Eibel, 18, was alive in the Future Farmers of America and admired to play soccer. Kim Saltmarsh Dietz was a 59-year-old whose babe was enrolled in the aforementioned academy but was not afflicted the shooting.
"We accept been aggravating to amount out how to acquaint anybody how amazing Lucas was, but that would yield 18 years," the ancestors of Eibel said in a account appear through the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The ancestors of 18-year-old Quinn Glen Cooper said he had just started academy and admired dancing and articulation acting.
"I don't apperceive how we are traveling to move advanced with our lives after Quinn," the Coopers said in a statement.
Nine added humans were blood-soaked in the advance in Roseburg, a rural balk boondocks about 180 afar south of Portland.
Shooter Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer afterwards asleep himself as admiral arrived, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said Saturday.
Authorities accept not appear whether they accept an envelope or amalgamation from Harper-Mercer.
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 babe had her branch removed afterwards getting shot.
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! ... I saw it!'"
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.
Her son said the ballista had humans angle up afore asking, "'Do you accept a God? Are you Christian? Do you accept a religion?'"
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 chic 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 and that their prayers went out to the families of those who died and were injured.
The asleep ranged in age from 18 to 67 and included several freshmen. They were sons and daughters, spouses and parents.
Lucas Eibel, 18, was alive in the Future Farmers of America and admired to play soccer. Kim Saltmarsh Dietz was a 59-year-old whose babe was enrolled in the aforementioned academy but was not afflicted the shooting.
"We accept been aggravating to amount out how to acquaint anybody how amazing Lucas was, but that would yield 18 years," the ancestors of Eibel said in a account appear through the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
The ancestors of 18-year-old Quinn Glen Cooper said he had just started academy and admired dancing and articulation acting.
"I don't apperceive how we are traveling to move advanced with our lives after Quinn," the Coopers said in a statement.
Nine added humans were blood-soaked in the advance in Roseburg, a rural balk boondocks about 180 afar south of Portland.
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