Posted on 10/02/2015 6:40:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The 26-year-old gunman who opened fire on fellow students in his community college English class, killing nine people, was an Army boot camp dropout who studied mass shooters before becoming one himself.
A day after the rampage in this Oregon timber town, authorities said Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer wore a flak jacket and brought at least six guns and five ammunition magazines to the school. Investigators found another seven guns at the apartment he shared with his mother.
Officials on Friday also released the names of the dead, who ranged in age from 18 to 67 and included several freshmen and a teacher. They were sons and daughters, spouses and parents.
One of the students was active in the Future Farmers of America and loved to play soccer. Another was on only his fourth day of college. One was a 59-year-old student whose daughter was enrolled in the same school but not injured the shooting. Grieving families began sharing details of their loved ones.
"We have been trying to figure out how to tell everyone how amazing Lucas was, but that would take 18 years," the family of Lucas Eibel, 18, said in a statement released through the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
Eibel, who was studying chemistry, volunteered at a wildlife center and animal shelter.
Quinn Glen Cooper's family said their son had just started college and loved dancing and voice acting.
"I don't know how we are going to move forward with our lives without Quinn," the Coopers said. "Our lives are shattered beyond repair."
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This is going to spread. You have sickos out there that are going to go for records, so they’ll be remembered. Criminals, crusaders and crazies, its all about them and appearing on the front page or the lead story at 6pm.
If he didn’t make it through boot camp he wasn’t kicked out.
He failed the admission process.
Oh, I’m sure he was on Social Security Disability.....
He was ELS from BCT. ELS is neither an honorable or dishonorable discharge. Basically means you are incompatible with being a soldier. Goodbye.
What was the thing with the Irish Republican Army...
Oregon Mass Shooter Lived in SoCal, Sympathized With Irish Republican Army
Guy got his programming wrong - it was suppose to be the NRA...
“Firearms are expensive”
Very good question - I have not heard anything about employment...
but, he lived at home, no wife, no kids, no life to speak of, even a low paying job and he could build an arsenal over time...
You would think co-workers would have some idea - have not heard anything on that..
Harper-Mercer. Hyphenated product of a broken marriage. Sign of our decadent times.
I think you're probably right. (Our tax dollars at work here!) With $733/month in SSI and living with mom, it would be pretty easy to acquire an extensive gun collection in the space of a few years.
=> "Switzer Center: Oregon shooter’s Torrance school specializes in behavior problems"
Especially odd since the IRA has been out of the public eye for some time now.
I speculate it grew out of hatred for his British father and background. Getting off on British troops (i.e. his father by proxy) being wounded and killed by the IRA.
I’d like to know if he had contact with any far left wing leftist... a few months prior to the shooting.
The MSM will find ways to excuse this blunder... He's too young to have given a damn about the Irish Republican Army...
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