On
this date, October 1, 2015, a gunman killed nine people at Umpqua community
college in Roseburg, Oregon. I will post information from
Wikipedia about he shooting and the killer.
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Chris Harper Mercer has been identified as
the gunman in the Umpqua Community College shooting in Roseburg, Oregon. He
wrote in the caption of this photo, “Me, holding a rifle. It was supposed to be
all the way in the picture, but it didn’t work out. Only the barrel shows.” (MySpace)
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The Umpqua Community College
shooting occurred on October 1, 2015, at the UCC campus near Roseburg,
Oregon, United States. Chris Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old enrolled at the
school, fatally shot an assistant professor and eight students in a classroom.
Seven to nine others were injured. Roseburg police detectives responding to the
incident engaged Harper-Mercer in a brief shootout.
After being wounded, he killed himself by shooting himself in the head. The mass
shooting was the deadliest in Oregon's modern history.
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