Ten people were killed when a gunman opened fire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday, forcing the nation to face yet another mass shooting.
The gunman who has now been identified as Chris Harper-Mercer opened fire at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College.
A lucky surviour Anastasia Boylan who was in the same room as the killer told her father and brother the gunman entered her classroom firing. The professor in the classroom was shot point blank. Others were hit, she told her family before going into spinal surgery.
Everyone in the classroom dropped to the ground.
The gunman, while reloading his handgun, ordered the students to stand up if they were Christians, Boylan told her family.
“And they would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second,'” Boylan’s father, Stacy, told CNN, relaying her account.
“And then he shot and killed them.”
Meanwhile, an angry President Barack Obama has reacted to the mass killing.
President Obama’s rage about gun massacres, building for years, spilled out Thursday night as he acknowledged his own powerlessness to prevent another tragedy and pleaded with voters to force change themselves.
“So tonight, as those of us who are lucky enough to hug our kids a little closer are thinking about the families who aren’t so fortunate,” the president said in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, named for a man severely wounded by a would-be assassin’s bullet, “I’d ask the American people to think about how they can get our government to change these laws, and to save these lives and let these people grow up,” Obama said while reacting to the shooting at the White House briefing room.