Update: NBC News
A gunman was in custody after he killed seven to 10 people and injured about 20 others Thursday at a community college in southwest Oregon, authorities said.
It wasn’t immediately known whether the gunman was dead or alive as authorities said simply that he was in custody after the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which was called in at 10:38 a.m. (1:38 p.m. ET), officials said.
Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg said it was treating nine patients, with three more expected. Sacred Heart General Hospital in Eugene, a major trauma center, told NBC News it was expecting three patients by helicopter.
Students and faculty were being bused to the Douglas County Fairgrounds.
Umpqua student Larry Howell was on his way to class when he saw students running around him, he told NBC News.
“I turned around. I heard ‘active shooter,’ and I didn’t need to be told twice,” he said.
Howell said he checked in with his friends to make sure they were safe.
“Everybody is reaching out to one another and checking on everyone. We don’t know which one of our colleagues are down,” he said.
Umpqua is a two-year school with about 3,300 full-time students and 16,000 part-time students. It started offering classes in 1961.
JUST IN: President Obama has been briefed on the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon – @ChrisJansing https://t.co/clPNXc3LmZ
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) October 1, 2015
BREAKING: Sheriff: Gunman in Oregon college shooting was killed in exchange of gunfire with officers.
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 1, 2015
ROSEBURG, Ore. — The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are responding to a shooting at Umpqua Community College.
Oregon State Police confirm that preliminary information says that 10 are dead. They say that the shooter is down.
CNN reports that 20 or more are wounded.
According to UCC’s Twitter, the campus is on lockdown.
Douglas County Fire District No. 2 says in a Tweet, “Active Shooter at UCC. Please stay away from the area.”
We will post more information as we confirm it.
– See more at: http://www.kdrv.com/news/Deputies_Respond_to_Reports_of_a_Shooting_at_UCC_.html#sthash.5zYvb3di.dpuf
A shooter has been reported at Umpqua Community College, according to the Douglas County Fire District’s Twitter account. It’s unconfirmed how many wounded or if the shooting is still ongoing at the Roseburg campus.
Sgt. Dwes Hutson, a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, says officers responded around 10:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting at the College. Huston could not confirm if anyone was injured.
According to the News Review newspaper in Roseburg, police and emergency crews are at Umpqua Community College after a reported gunman shot upwards of 20 people on campus.
Scanner reports indicated the suspect is down. Multiple ambulances are on scene. Early reports indicate at least 15 people are dead.
Police are clearing the science building at this time.
(Check back as we continue to update this story real time.)
— The Oregonian
This from Dawn:
Breaking:
Preliminary information indicates 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured in a shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday morning, said Oregon State Police spokesman Bill Fugate. The reports indicate that the shooter has been detained, Fugate said.
Original post:
Authorities were “responding to reports of an active shooter” Thursday morning at the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, a sheriff’s spokesman said.
“There is a situation going on out there but we don’t have any more information at this time,” said Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Dwes Hutson.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been hurt or killed.
Check back for more information on this developing story.
Active shooter at UCC. Please stay away from the area
— Fire Dist No.2 (@DCFD2) October 1, 2015
http://ktla.com/2015/10/01/active-shooter-reported-at-oregon-college/
I have been following the situation in Syria all morning and literally just found out about this shooting a few minutes ago. I checked Twitter, and it looks like they have someone in custody. Will be watching for updates…
Live feed:
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/19114
I’m sure there won’t be any politicians screaming for MORE GUN CONTROL.
At least not till later this afternoon.
Oh, but they already are…on Twitter.
I stand corrected.
Luckily, I was being my usual facetious self. 😉
If they do, it will be for the children,don’t yuh know.
Oh, the tragedy!
Wonder how many homeowners had their mortgages paid off today in Roseburg. Will the school be torn down and hauled away by this time next month?
It was a community college.
Obama has been briefed about the situation as well.
Guns are illegal on school grounds – didn’t the murder know that!?!?
Time to go practice some more.
Home school=less targets,ban backpacks=less time searching um fishing for whatever. No more gun free zones.
The article says it was a community college. No kids to homeschool.
How many of the grown up students there at commie college have their own joint and don’t live with mom and dad? I still say there children,most without a clue.
The shooter was asking people to stand up and state their religion and then started firing away…
http://www.nrtoday.com/news/18445375-113/shooting-rampage-at-ucc-at-least-13-dead
Why do most of the medics have red tee-shirts on? Is it casual thursday or is there some significance to those particular people? Are they part of something the others aren’t?
Why does the cop (lower right) in lower pic have a silencer on his “ASSAULT RIFLE”??
Wonder what flag will get blamed this time?
Well now that we’ve read the news, does anyone know if this actually happened?
I only know what’s going to happen next, and NO, we don’t need any new gun laws.
Anyone that believes any of these “shootings” are really happening, needs to check their gullibility index. COMPLETE AND TOTAL BS HOAXES.
If this scenario turns out to be bloodless and aseptic like Sandy Hoax or fake-blooded and staged with obvious actors like the Boston affair, I say bullshite.
Show the actual untouched scenes of the dead, and fully report all the names of the “victims”, including the real funerals with real distraught family members, or shut up and go home.
Here it comes: more screeching about the need for “common sense gun safety laws.”
Pass any laws you want, MFers. You’re not getting my guns — especially not with the US turning into one of the worst police states in history. You think I’m going leave my life and my rights to the tender mercies of idiot-faced SWAT thugs?
Just another diversion tactic since Russia is bombing the sh! t out of ISIS. Plus the shooter was suffering from reefer madness since Oregon just passed that new weed law effective today. Typical slight of hand magic trick…like Lance Burton in Vegas. Let’s see asking religious affiliation ? The shooter must have been a syrian muslim russian white christian. Jeez…. can’t they stop shooting up school’s and go to the house and senate in
D.C.
Flee