Shooting in Oregon

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Umpqua Community College shooting - A gunman opened fire  with   the  community college  throughout  southern Oregon  on  Thursday, killing 13  you   AND  wounding  some  20 others  earlier  he  was  shot  for you to  death  coming from  police, state  AND  county officials said,  for the  latest mass killing  in order to  rock  the  U.S. school.

There were conflicting  accounts   towards the   quantity   associated with  dead  AS WELL AS  wounded  in the  shooting rampage  at  Umpqua Community College  within  Roseburg,  that will  began shortly  after  10:30 a.m. local  night out  (1730 GMT).

The state's attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum, told  your current  local NBC  Link   This  13  anyone  had been slain  IN ADDITION TO  20 wounded. Rosenblum's  department  did not return calls  through  Reuters seeking comment.

Governor Kate Brown said  ones  suspect  are   an  20-year-old man but he  are  not identified  further   by  authorities. CNN reported  It  four guns belonging  on the  shooter were recovered  from the  scene.

The massacre  will be the  latest  within   a number of  mass shootings  with  U.S. college campuses,  online video media  theaters, military bases  AND  churches  within  recent years.  the  killings have fueled  Needs   pertaining to   extra  gun control  with the  United States,  where  ownership  regarding  firearms  is actually   secure   because of the  Second Amendment  of the  U.S. Constitution,  AND ALSO   superior  care  for its  mentally ill.

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President Barack Obama, speaking  just  hours  following   your current  rampage, said  your current  mass killing  In the event  move Americans  to help   involve   far better  gun controls  through  elected officials.
"Somehow  This has   become  routine,"  a good  visibly angry  IN ADDITION TO  shaken Obama said. "The reporting  can be  routine.  MY PERSONAL   reply  here,  at   the  podium, ends up being routine. ...We've  be  numb  to  this."

Kortney Moore, 18, told  your current  local News Review newspaper  The idea  she  feel   throughout  her writing class  in  Snyder Hall  Any time   a  gunshot came  by the  window  AND ALSO  struck her teacher  in the  head.

Moore said  ones  gunman told  people   to get   to the  ground,  subsequently   inquired  them  to  stand up  AND ALSO  state  their  religion  previous  he  started up  shooting.

Student Cassandra Welding told CNN  The idea  she heard 35  to help  40 shots.

Student Brady Winder,  within   the  posting  on  Facebook, said he  are   throughout   the  classroom  throughout  Snyder Hall,  after that  door  towards  room  through which   your own  shooting began  AND  ran,  ALONG WITH  his classmates,  Whenever  they heard  your  gunfire.

"I ran  towards  edge  of an  campus,  down   a great  hill  ALONG WITH  waited.  by  talking  having a  student  with the  classroom  through which   This  happen, almost every  consumer   in the  room  feel  shot  by   a  man  with  four guns," Winder wrote.

"I'm still shaken up ...  my partner and i   cannot  wrap  MY PERSONAL  mind  approximately  this. Please  simply  pray  because of its  families  ALONG WITH  parents  involving   these  students," he posted.

PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center emergency room doctor Hans Notenboom told reporters three patients were flown  on the  hospital  with  Riverbend  by  helicopter,  IN ADDITION TO   2  were moved  directly into   functioning  room.

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The hospital said  within   the   record   how the  three victims were women between  your own  age  involving  18  IN ADDITION TO  34.

Survivors were  mailed   for you to   a  local fairgrounds  ALONG WITH   several  family members were left waiting  with regard to  hours  to   view   whether or not   the  loved  your current  would  end up being  among them.

"We have grief counselors waiting  with regard to   anybody  parents  which  have  simply no  children  obtaining  off  It  bus," said  your current  college's president, Rita Calvin.

The college,  of which  began  their  fall term  the actual  week  AND ALSO  serves  in excess of  13,000 students, 3,000  associated with  them full-time, said  This  would  always be  closed until Monday.

Agents  through the  Federal Bureau  associated with  Investigation  along with the  U.S. Bureau  associated with  Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms  AS WELL AS  Explosives were  on   its   strategy to  Roseburg.

Recent episodes  of  gun violence  in the united states  include  ones  massacre  connected with   ten   a person   in   a great  South Carolina church  in  June  and also the  killing  of   5  U.S. servicemen  with  Chattanooga, Tennessee.

In 2012,  nine  students  on the  small Christian college Oikos University  in  Oakland, California, were shot dead  from   the  former student, marking  ones  deadliest outburst  involving  violence  at   a good  U.S. college  because the  April 2007,  While   a  student  from  Virginia Tech University killed 32  a person   AND  wounded 25 others  before   transporting  his own life.