Harper Mercer comes into the community college which he has been taking classes from for the past couple weeks. he comes in and shoots 3 times at the back wall telling everybody to get down and gather in the center. he then begins to shoot randomly at victims not even blinking once at the awful things he is doing. at multiple times he asked people what religion they are and before they answered he shot them. though he didn't do that to all victims which through off the conspiracy that he was targeting religion. he pushed a handicapped woman out of her chair and then told her to get back in the chair. when she attempted to pull herself up he shot her without even saying a word or allowing her time to get back in. everyone was in shock and no one knew what to do. a teenage boy was targeted by Harper when he said that if the teenager gave an envelope to the police, he could live. fearing his life, he agreed, but at first not knowing what Mercer meant. he was forced to sit at the back of the room and watch the murders. the boy said he didn't want to look inside the envelope fearing being shot but he felt the presence of a flash drive. only 3 or 4 were able to walk out of the classroom where Mercer did the shooting. the rest were killed or injured and not able to walk out on their own.
no one really understands why Mercer decided to shoot. he had seemed perfectly fine with the teacher that taught him which was one of his victims, but it was admitted that he owned several firearms. after the shooting Mercer and the police participated in a shootout but the autopsy showed that Mercer died by suicide. there has been many times in history where people have acted out and no one really has a reasoning to explain it. perhaps in his mind it was some sort of rebellion, but its hard to say. we see that shootings have been arising in frequency in the past couple years and we saw that with one of the most famous but tragic shootings which was the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. to this day no one is completely sure as to why the shooter targeted the innocent elementary school. its a sad truth but people will continue to act carelessly and without reasoning and without people being able to explain it.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/us/oregon-umpqua-community-college-shooting/index.html
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