Douglas County’s News Review newspaper reports that the gunman in todays mass shooting in Oregon was asking people their religion before shooting them.
According to at least one unconfirmed account, the shooter then targeted those who had answered Christian by shooting them in the head, shooting those who answered otherwise in the legs.
Kortney Moore, 18, from Rogue River, was in her Writing 115 class in Snyder Hall when one shot came through a window. She saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter was inside at that point, and he told people to get on the ground. The shooter was asking people to stand up and state their religion and then started firing away, Moore said. Moore was lying there with people who had been shot.
From Twitter, one person claims her grandmother was on scene and witnessed the same, adding the detail about the targeting of Christians.
Local CBS affiliate KOIN in Portland also reported that the gunman was asking students to “stand up and state their religion.” Fox Business reported the same on air, based on theNews Review report.
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The president of Umpqua Community College, the scene of yesterday's gun massacre, said that within the past several months the college had discussed hiring an armed security guard but ultimately decided against it, reports the New York Times.
Umpqua is a gun-free campus with only one unarmed security officer on duty at a time. Its security policy states,
“Possession, use, or threatened use of firearms (including but not limited to BB guns, air guns, water pistols, and paint guns) ammunition, explosives, dangerous chemicals, or any other objects as weapons on college property, except as expressly authorized by law or college regulations, is prohibited."
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“What they haven’t released is that the school board recently made massive cuts to the security staff, among other staff. All in an attempt to free up money in the budgets to spend on all the shiny new construction projects occurring on campus the last couple of years,” he writes. “The schoolboard routinely puts pet projects ahead of providing service to the students. Just last year the schoolboard voted against providing armed security officers for the campus.”
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