A 26-year-old gunman identified as Chris Harper-Mercer opened fire on students at Umpqua Community College, Oregon and killed 10 while injuring another 7.
The killer marched into the college campus in Oregon on Thursday armed with a rifle and three handguns. He opened fire - after asking many victims whether they were Christian - leaving at least ten people dead including himself.
According to his profile on a dating site Harper-Mercer is 'mixed race,' a 'conservative Republican,' 'not religious' and lives with his mother - and appears to have been born in Britain.
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.
Anastasia Boylan, 18, was one of Harper-Mercer's victims who only survived by playing dead described her 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.'
'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.
Harper-Mercer's motive is still not known at this time, but he came armed with three pistols, a rifle, body armor and a large amount of ammunition.
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 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.'
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