The gunman who opened fire on students at Umpqua Community College has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer according to law enforcement sources.
'He appears to be an angry young man who was very filled with hate,' one source told The New York Times.
According to his profile on a dating site Harper-Mercer is 'mixed race,' a 'conservative Republican,' 'not religious' and lives with his mother.
Harper-Mercer wrote in a post this August about how much he admired Vester Flanagan, the Roanoke shooter who killed a cameraman and newscaster at the television station where he had been employed after getting fired.
On that same profile it also showed that just three days ago Harper-Mercer uploaded This World Surviving Sandy Hook BBC Documentary 2015 for people to watch on the file sharing site.
On an interesting note, I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone,' wrote Harper-Mercer of Flanagan.
'His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight.'
He closed by saying; 'Also, if anyone gets the chance, go on youtube and see the footage of him shooting those people. It's a short video but good nonetheless. Will post more later.'
State Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and other officials said 13 people were killed in Thursday's shooting, though that number may have been too high.
'At this time, we are reporting and can confirm 10 fatalities in the shooting,' Douglas County sheriff's deputies, Sheriff John Hanlin said Thursday evening.
'This number is the best, most accurate information that we have at this time.'
Harper-Mercer's motive is still not known at this time.
He demanded that his victims lay on the ground and then made them stand up one at a time and state their religion before opening fire according to one traumatized eyewitness.
Kortney Moore said she was in her writing class when a bullet went through the window hitting her teacher in the head. Soon after, the shooter was inside the room demanding to know the religion of her fellow students.
The 18-year-old laid on the ground next to some of the victims shot by the gunman but managed to make it out alive.
Anastasia Boylan, 18, was one of Harper-Mercer's victims who only survived by playing dead.
Her father Stacy spoke to CNN and described his daughter's horrifying ordeal, saying that Harper-Mercer at one point asked who was Christian, and told them all to stand up.
'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,"' said Stacy.
'And then he shot and killed them.'
The man then broke down as he tried to understand how it was possible for the 26-year-old to be able to so slowly and methodically murder so many people and refill his handgun without anyone coming to the rescue of these students.
His daughter was shot in the spine but still alive when Harper-Mercer demanded she stand back up, but she refused and instead acted dead so he moved on said her father.
Anastasia also told her father that Harper-Mercer shot her professor first point black, saying; 'I've been waiting to do this for years.'
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