Full Coverage: Oregon community college shooting

Chris Mintz had run through campus trying to warn other students that a gunman had opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Oregon when, unwittingly, he came face-to-face with the killer.

It would be hard to find a place and time that better encapsulate the United States in 2015 than Friday in this tiny timber town 180 miles south of Portland.

Christopher Harper-Mercer, the gunman who killed nine people and wounded nine more at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, turned a gun on himself after he was wounded in a shootout with police, officials said Wednesday.

In writings he left behind before killing himself, the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college last week ranted about not having a girlfriend and complained that everyone else was crazy, a law enforcement official said.

Carolyn Kellim’s upper lip snarled to the left at the mention of gun control.

Randy Scroggins sat down on his porch as dusk fell Saturday, his eyes red with emotion and exhaustion.

People sniffled in the pews of New Hope Church here Sunday as Pastor David Ewert read the names of the nine people killed in last week’s shooting at Umpqua Community College.

The Army records of the shooter at Umpqua Community College and one of his victims couldn’t be more different.

Keith Weikum, a set builder and special effects operator for theater productions at Umpqua Community College, already had a skeptical expression when he opened his front door.

Eight students and their teacher were shot to death on Thursday during the first week of Writing 115, an introductory expository writing course at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.

Christopher Harper-Mercer killed himself after he fatally shot nine people and wounded nine others in his attack at Umpqua Community College, among the deadliest mass school shootings in two decades, officials said Saturday.

The gunman who carried out the deadly attack at Umpqua Community College was a student in the same class as many of his nine victims: Writing 115, also called Introduction to Expository Writing.

At the epicenter of the nation’s latest mass shooting in Oregon, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says the motives of the man who fatally shot 9 people on a college campus Thursday are not known.

In the real world, Chris Harper-Mercer cut the figure of a quiet young man who kept people at bay with his earbuds and struggled to speak when neighbors asked him how he was doing.

This was a thriving timber town when Umpqua Community College offered its first classes in the fall of 1961.

A gunman walked into a [fill in the blank] today and over the span of _____ minutes killed at least [number goes here] and wounded _____ more before [pick one] killing himself/dying in a shootout with police.

There was no good way to find out.

In one of the deadliest of a series of school shootings that have become violently familiar across the U.S., a gunman opened fire at a community college in southwestern Oregon on Thursday morning, killing at least nine and injuring seven others before dying in a shootout with police.

Neighbors at a sprawling apartment complex in Torrance said they thought it was odd when a few years ago they saw Chris Harper Mercer and his mother carrying black cases that the neighbors suspected held firearms.

Hours after a gunman burst into a rural Oregon community college and opened fire Thursday, survivors were telling their stories of terror.

Holding candles high in the air and singing “Amazing Grace,� hundreds of Roseburg residents gathered at a city park Thursday night for a candlelight vigil to remember the dead and wounded from the shooting attack at Umpqua Community College.

Umpqua Community College, the Southern Oregon site of Thursday’s mass shooting, is a rural, two-year commuter school with a wine institute and a specialty in distance learning.

Visibly frustrated with what he said had become the “routine� nature of another mass shooting in the United States on Thursday, President Obama demanded a change in the politics of guns in America, saying that simply thinking of and praying for victims was “not enough.�

Seven dead? Ten dead? Thirteen? Another 20 or so wounded? Do the numbers really matter?