ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) -- The latest on the deadly shooting Thursday at a community college in Oregon (all times local):
7:20 p.m.
A neighbor of the man who went on a deadly shooting rampage at an Oregon college says he "seemed really unfriendly."
Bronte Hart lived below 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer in the
community of Winchester. She says Mercer would "sit by himself in the
dark in the balcony with this little light."
Hart says a woman she believed to be Mercer's mother also lived upstairs and was "crying her eyes out" Thursday.
Mercer was identified as the man who opened fire at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College, killing nine people.
He then died after exchanging gunfire with responding officers.
A
patient is wheeled into the emergency room at Mercy Medical Center in
Roseburg, Ore., following a deadly shooting Thursday at Umpqua Community
College. (Aaron Yost/Roseburg News-Review via AP)
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A government official says the man who opened fire at an Oregon community college was 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer.
The official wasn't authorized to speak publicly and provided the name on condition of anonymity.
Mercer
killed nine people at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College before he
died during an exchange of gunfire with officers Thursday.
The college is in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland.
-- By Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington
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6:40 p.m.
Federal authorities say the gunman is among the 10 people killed in a shooting at an Oregon college.
FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele declined to provide other information about the shooter.
Douglas
County Sheriff John Hanlin says seven others were injured when the
gunman opened fire Thursday at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College.
Three of them were transferred to Eugene-area hospitals in critical condition.
Hanlin has said the shooter died after exchanging gunfire with police.
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5:45 p.m.
Officials
at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg, Oregon, say four people injured in
a deadly mass shooting remain hospitalized there but are expected to
survive.
Dr. Jason Gray, chief medical officer, says three other patients were transferred to a hospital in Springfield.
Gray says one of the four people still at Mercy Medical Center is in critical condition and the others are stable.
He says some of the victims who were taken to the hospital suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
They were injured when a gunman opened fire at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College.
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5:05 p.m.
A sheriff says 10 people were killed in a shooting at an Oregon community college.
Douglas
County Sheriff John Hanlin says 10 dead and another seven injured is
the "best, most accurate information we have at this time."
Earlier,
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said 13 people were killed in
the rampage at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg.
It's
unclear what led to the discrepancy. Hanlin has said the gunman died
after a shootout with police. He didn't clarify whether the shooter was
included in the 10 fatalities.
Hanlin says three people who were critically injured in the shooting have been transferred to hospitals in the Eugene area.
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4:45 p.m.
The
sheriff overseeing the investigation of an Oregon college shooting has
been vocal in opposing state and federal gun-control legislation.
Douglas
County Sheriff John Hanlin registered his opposition this year as state
lawmakers considered requiring background checks on private,
person-to-person gun sales.
Hanlin told a legislative committee in March that a background-check mandate wouldn't prevent criminals from getting firearms.
He
said the state should combat gun violence by cracking down on convicted
criminals found with guns, and by addressing people with unmanaged
mental health issues.
Hanlin also sent a letter to Vice President
Joe Biden in 2013, after the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut,
elementary school. Hanlin said he and his deputies would refuse to
enforce new gun-control restrictions "offending the constitutional
rights of my citizens."
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4:35 p.m.
A student
at an Oregon community college where a deadly mass shooting happened
says she was in a writing class when her teacher got a call from
security saying the school was on lockdown.
Hannah Miles is a 19-year-old freshman at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg.
She
says she heard gunshots from a neighboring classroom Thursday, and her
teacher and fellow students huddled together in their locked classroom.
She
says they heard footsteps outside, and a man's voice call out to them,
"Come on out, come on out." They remained quiet and didn't open the
door.
Miles says police soon arrived. And after students were convinced they were indeed officers, they opened the door.
Miles says seeing the officers was "like a huge burden had been lifted."
The shooting left 13 people dead and more than a dozen injured.
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4:10 p.m.
Royals
left-hander Jeremy Guthrie says he's keeping his Oregon hometown in his
prayers after a mass shooting at a local community college.
Guthrie
was born in Roseburg and lived there until he was 12. But he moved just
100 miles away and visited there often after he left. His father sold
cars in the community for about 20 years.
"I used to ride around
that entire town on my bicycle," he said before the Royals faced the
White Sox in Chicago. "When we went somewhere, we jumped on our bikes
and rode down to the shoe store, the mall, and as such you got to know
people."
Guthrie says he has several cousins, aunts and uncles who still live in the Roseburg area.
"Certainly
in those smaller towns everybody knows each other, so I'm sure there
are many people that are directly feeling the pain today," he said.
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4 p.m.
Vice
President Joe Biden is predicting investigators will find that a
semi-automatic or automatic weapon was used in the Oregon college
shooting.
Biden is speaking at a global summit in New York. He
says it's still too early to know all the details, but he's basing his
guess on the large number of people killed and injured.
The vice
president is renewing his call for what describes as "sane gun
legislation." He says the Second Amendment doesn't allow someone to own a
bazooka.
Biden says there's almost nothing worse than getting a
phone call saying, "Your child is gone." He's alluding to his own son's
brain cancer death earlier this year.
Biden spoke after 13 people were killed by a 20-year-old gunman at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg.
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3:40 p.m.
President
Barack Obama says the U.S. is becoming numb to mass shootings and says
their perpetrators have "sickness" in their minds.
He says
thoughts and prayers are no longer enough in these situations because
they don't do anything to stop similar acts from happening in the next
week or a few months later.
Obama spoke Thursday after 13 people
were killed by a 20-year-old gunman at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community
College in southwestern Oregon.
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3:20 p.m.
Hospitals
are reporting they have received at least 13 patients from the shooting
at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in southwestern Oregon.
Monique
Danziger, a spokeswoman for Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield,
Oregon, says three women, ages 18-34, were flown to the hospital from
Roseburg. She says their conditions were not available.
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg has at least 10 patients. Their conditions were also not available.
A
spokeswoman at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland says
they hadn't heard of any patients transported there, but said that could
change.
Authorities say 13 people were killed in Thursday's shooting. The 20-year-old gunman died during a shootout with police.
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3:10 p.m.
President Barack Obama will make a statement on the deadly mass shooting at an Oregon community college.
The White House says the statement is scheduled for 6:20 p.m. Eastern time in the press briefing room.
Obama
last addressed a deadly mass shooting in June, when nine parishioners
were killed at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
At the time, Obama said the shootings showed the need for a national reckoning on gun violence.
The
shooting Thursday by a 20-year-old gunman left 13 people dead and at
least 20 injured at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College. The school is
in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland.
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3 p.m.
Officials
at high schools in an around an Oregon city where a mass shooting took
place say they're preparing to support people affected by the killings.
Sutherlin
High School Principal Justin Huntley says his school has counselors
available to students after the deadly rampage Thursday at Umpqua
(UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg. Sutherlin is about 13 miles
north of that city.
Authorities say a 20-year-old gunman killed 13 people and injured at least 20 at the college campus.
Roseburg
Public Schools Superintendent Gerry Washburn says a large number of
Roseburg High School students go straight to Umpqua Community College
after graduation.
"It's a small, tight community, and there is no
doubt that we will have staff and students that have family and friends
impacted by this event," Washburn said. "We're just trying to get ready
to support them."
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2:30 p.m.
Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton says of the deadly
shooting in Roseburg, Oregon, that it's beyond her comprehension that
"we are seeing these mass murders happen again and again and again."
Thursday's shooting at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College left 13 dead and 20 injured.
Clinton
said after a Dorchester, Massachusetts, campaign event that the nation
needs to "get the political will to do everything we can to keep people
safe."
She says there's a way to have sensible gun control
measures that keep firearms out of the wrong hands and save lives. The
former secretary of state says she's committed to doing everything she
can to achieve that.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department says U.S.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is receiving regular briefings from the
FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which
have agents at the scene.
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2:10 p.m.
A
student at the Oregon community college where a mass shooting occurred
says the gunman shot her teacher and asked others in her classroom about
their religion before spraying more bullets.
Eighteen-year-old
Kortney Moore of Rogue River tells the Roseburg News-Review newspaper
that she was in a writing class at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College
in Roseburg on Thursday when a shot came through a window.
The gunman entered her classroom and told people to get on the ground.
Moore says the man started asking people to stand up and state their religion and then opened fire.
The shooting left 13 people dead and at least 20 injured.
Douglas
County Sheriff John Hanlin says authorities responded and exchanged
gunfire with the man. He says the shooter died at the scene, but he
didn't say whether the man killed himself or was shot by police.
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2 p.m.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says the gunman in a deadly mass shooting at a community college was a 20-year-old man.
Authorities
say the man is dead after killing 13 people and injuring at least 20
others at Umpqua (UHMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg, about 180
miles south of Portland.
Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says
authorities received calls from the college at about 10:30 a.m.
reporting an active shooter in one of the classrooms.
Officers
responded and found the gunman on campus. Hanlin says they exchanged
gunfire with the man, and he died in or near a classroom.
Hanlin didn't say whether the gunman killed himself or was killed by police.
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1:47 p.m.
Authorities say the man who opened fire on an Oregon community college campus is dead.
Douglas
County Sheriff John Hanlin said at a Thursday news conference that
offers exchanged gunfire with the shooter and that "he is deceased."
Hanlin didn't say whether the shooter was killed by officers or took his own life.
Authorities say 13 people were killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
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1:30 p.m.
Oregon
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says 13 people are dead after a gunman
opened fire at a community college in the rural city of Roseburg.
The
shooting happened Thursday morning on the campus of Umpqua (UMP'-kwah)
Community College, about 180 miles south of Portland.
Authorities said earlier that at least seven people were dead. More than 20 other people were injured.
Andrea
Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County sheriff's office, says the
threat to the school has subsided. She declined to say whether the
gunman was taken into custody or killed.
Meanwhile, the FBI says it's sending teams to Roseburg to assist.
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1:05 p.m.
The
former president of an Oregon community college where a gunman opened
fire, killing at least seven people, says the school has only one
security officer on duty at a time, and that person isn't armed.
Joe Olson retired in June from his position as president of Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg.
He
says last year, one of the biggest debates on campus was whether the
school should have armed security officers. He says the college had
three training exercises with local law agencies in the past two years,
"but you can never be prepared for something like this."
Olson
says he suspects Thursday's shooting will start a discussion across the
country about how community colleges prepare for something like this.
Authorities say the gunman killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 others.
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12:50 p.m.
The
White House says President Barack Obama has been briefed by his
homeland security adviser on a deadly mass shooting at a community
college in Roseburg, Oregon.
At the president's request, he'll continue to receive updates throughout the day.
Authorities
say the shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College
killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 others.
A
Douglas County sheriff's spokeswoman says the threat has subsided, but
she declined to say whether the gunman was taken into custody or killed.
The sheriff's office says students and faculty members were being bused to the county fairgrounds.
Oregon
Senator Jeff Merkley says he's "absolutely heartbroken" about the
shooting. Merkley says he's been in touch with local officials to
express his condolences and offer assistance.
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12:40 p.m.
The
congressman who represents the southwest Oregon city where a mass
shooting happened at a community college says the incident is a
"heartbreaking tragedy."
Authorities say the shooting Thursday at
Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg killed at least seven
people and injured at least 20 others.
Democratic Rep. Peter
DeFazio said in a statement that his thoughts and prayers are with the
victims and their families. He also expressed gratitude for the first
responders.
DeFazio says once he knows more about what happened,
he plans to work with his colleagues in Congress to find ways to prevent
such tragedies.
Andrea Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County
Sheriff's office, says the threat at the college has subsided. However,
she wouldn't say whether the gunman was taken into custody or was
killed.
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12:30 p.m.
A sheriff's spokesman says the threat has subsided following a mass shooting at a southwest Oregon community college.
Authorities
say the shooting Thursday at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in
Roseburg killed at least seven people and injured at least 20 more.
Andrea
Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County Sheriff's office, says
there's "no more threat." However, she wouldn't say whether that meant
the shooter had been arrested or was killed.
Roseburg is about 180 miles south of Portland.
Umpqua
Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down
Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately
returned.
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12:15 p.m.
Authorities say at
least seven people are dead and 20 others are injured after a shooting
at a southwest Oregon community college.
The shooting happened at Umpqua (UMP'-kwah) Community College in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland.
State Police Lt. Bill Fugate tells KATU-TV that seven to 10 people were killed and at least 20 others were injured.
A
photographer for the Roseburg News-Review newspaper says he saw people
being loaded into multiple ambulances and taken to a local hospital.
Umpqua
Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down
Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately
returned.
The Oregon State Police and Douglas County Sheriff's
Office also didn't immediately returned calls from The Associated Press
seeking additional details.
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11:35 a.m.
Authorities are reporting multiple casualties in a shooting at a community college in southwestern Oregon.
In
a tweet Thursday, the local fire district advised people to stay away
from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The city is about 180 miles
south of Portland.
The fire district later reported there were multiple casualties but released no further details.
Umpqua
Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down
Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn't immediately
returned.
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11:30 a.m.
Authorities are responding to a report of an active shooter at a community college in southwestern Oregon.
In
a tweet Thursday, the local fire district advised people to stay away
from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The city is about 180 miles
south of Portland.
Umpqua Community College has about 3,000
students. Its website was down Thursday, and a phone message left at the
school wasn't immediately returned.
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