Kortney Moore, 18, told the News Review the shooter ordered people to get on the ground and then asked people to stand up and state their religion "but started firing anyway."
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By Staff report | October 01, 2015
The shooter at Umpqua Community College asked people to state their religion and then started firing in a mass shooting that was reported Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.
At least 13 people have been killed, according to several sources, The Oregonian has reported.
According to Casey Park of The Oregonian, 911 dispatch reports indicated the suspect was also dead.
Kortney Moore, 18, told the News Review the shooter ordered people to get on the ground and then asked people to stand up and state their religion "but started firing anyway."
She was on the ground next to people who'd been shot, reported Lynne Terry for The Oregonian.
The New York Times reported, based upon a social media post, the gunmen singles out Christians, shooting them in the head while sparing non-Christian the head-shot and firing in their legs instead.
Four guns believed to have belonged to the suspect were recovered at the scene, a law enforcement official said, according to a CNN report.
"We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms," Douglas County Fire Marshal Ray Shoufler told CNN. "Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralized."
According to Umpqua Community College website, school prides itself on a "a peaceful, safe atmosphere, and year-round recreational activities."
Update: The following is reported by The New York Times:
Oregon gunman singled out Christians during rampage
The gunman who opened fire at an Oregon community college was forcing people to stand up and state their religion before he began blasting away at them, survivors said Thursday.
A woman who claimed to have a grandmother inside a writing class in Snyder Hall, where a portion the massacre unfolded, described the scene in a tweet.
“The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” she wrote. “If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs. My grandma just got to my house, and she was in the room. She wasn’t shot, but she is very upset.
-- USA: Oregon school shooter asks students their religion, starts firing, report says
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