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) |
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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