Who Is Chris Harper Mercer? Oregon’s Alleged Umqua Community College Shooter Identified
Posted: October 1, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Chris Harper Mercer, Douglas County, Oregon, Oregon Shooter, Roseburg, United States Leave a comment
Sarah Berger reports: Chris Harper Mercer, 26, has been identified as the shooter responsible for taking the lives of at least 10 people at a community college in southwest Oregon earlier Thursday, law enforcement sources confirmed to CBS News. Law enforcement officers shot and killed Mercer in an exchange of gunfire later Thursday afternoon.
Law enforcement authorities responded to calls that there was an active shooter on campus at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, at roughly 10:38 a.m. PDT. Ten people were killed and 20 more were injured. The shooter reportedly open fire in one building on campus before moving to the school’s science building. Victims were found in at least two buildings. Mercer allegedly asked people to stand up and state their religion, and then started firing, the News-Review, a local newspaper for Douglas County, Oregon, reported.
Umpqua Community College officials tweeted Thursday evening that the college would be closed until Monday….(read more)
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