Didnt know someone who was on campus yesterday, you probably know someone who knew someone who was on campus or had a relative on campus. This is touching a lot of people in this town. Morning classes were interrupted by gunfire, the first 911 call came in shortly after 10 30. Somebody is outside one of the doors, shooting through the door. Reporter reports of a shooter at Umpqua Community college in roseburg, oregon. I could tell what it was, once i heard the sound and saw the people running, i knew exactly what happened. My parents have always told me stay alert, be alert, and once that noise happened i looked around to see what was going on, and that is probably what saved my life. Reporter students are running everywhere, holy god one witness posted on triter. Police say officers made it to the scene within the next four minutes, but the woes has already taken place in sneijder hall. The gunman has opened fire inside the building and was then killed in a shootout with police. I hav
Faculty brought here to reunite families. Seen a lot of very sad scenes here. Obviously people not hearing what they hoped to hear and leaving in tears in the arms of their loved ones. A chaotic scene on campus this morning as you can imagine just after 10 30 in the morning. Police reporting single shooting opening fire in a classroom and then either being shot or shooting himself. We dont know but engaging in a shootout with police. The current president of the Umpqua Community college described that scene and the response this morning. A plan in place for campus violence and we went into lockdown immediately and people did exactly what they were supposed to do and pulled in people who were outside and sheltered them. So, adam, as you see, theyve been told there was a quick and tremendous response from police here. That they were on the scene four to five after the very first reports of the shooting came in. We also want to go to a little piece of comment that we have from somebody wh
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