Roseburg: The tragic incident of Oregon Shooting busted outed when a gunman entered in the writing class in rural Oregon and opened fire, the students of the community college had no idea about what was hitting them, bullets.
One among the witness said that the attacker demanded to know students religion before he started attacking them. Students of the next class room heard several shots one after the other, rushed out to save their lives.
Hannah Miles, a student said,“We began to run, a lot of my classmates were going every which way. We started to run to the center of campus. And I turned around, and I saw students pouring out of the building.”
Nine people were killed and seven others were wounded on Thursday. The Umpqua Community College is 180 miles south of Portland. This is the worst mass shooting in recent Oregon history was raising questions about security at the college with about 3,000 students.
“I suspect this is going to start a discussion across the country about how community colleges prepare themselves for events like this,” former college president Joe Olson said.
The killer was identified as Chris Harper Mercer, according to a government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and provided the name on condition of anonymity. Mercer died after a shootout with police, who were not saying whether they knew of any motive.
