add to the portrait of this 20-year-old. we don t know if he was an active current student, full or part time, or anything about motivation? no, we don t. and quite honestly, i think it s appropriate that law enforcement is not releasing information until they have a clearer picture of things. there s been too many times when things like this happen and you get information out there s an accident and things like that. i think it s appropriate that we wait until they have had a chance to do their full investigation before we start releasing details. i understand. i agree with that. jeff kruse, state senator from oregon, our condolences for the people in your district and the whole nation is watching this story, this horrible tragedy unfold from the state of oregon.
constituents. the first contact i had was a good friend of mind who works in the d.a. s office, and she called me to tell me about this because i wasn t listening to the radio or anything, and i have had some conversations at this point in time. quite honestly, the community is in total shock at this point, and senator, senator jeff kruse on the line, who represents district one in oregon which cover thes community college, senator-under our condo helps and thing. thank you, and i wish we would talk under better circumstances. thank you. umpqua community college, six miles outside of roseburg, and enrolls nearly 5,000 students. we have been saying 3,000 because it s believed that 3,000 would be on campus at any given time. as you might imagine, it s just
coming from the former attorney general, eric holder, who was attorney general up until recently, on his twitter account saying, enough, now oregon, what reason now to oppose safety measures? 5:00 hour here in the east. this is normally the time slot of our friend and colleague chuck todd. but we are in live rolling coverage of this horrible, latest mass casualty event that the nation is coming to grips with. it was 10:38 local time this morning in oregon, when the first 911 call went out from a community college. the death toll, we re now reporting, at 13, though we have reason to hope that that number perhaps goes down with some good news. over 20 wounded. the gunman, a 20-year-old male killed in an exchange of gunfire with police. it is, like so many other community colleges, mostly populated by older part-time students but there s, of course, a student body of 3,000 who just graduated from high school this past september and have started their studies there. the fall se
went into a classroom, and began shooting. we do not know whether anyone in that classroom was targeted. we do not have any information about who was hit. we don t know whether that the shooter then left that classroom and proceeded to others, and whether he moved next door to the science building as has been suggested by some social media and other authorities. we just don t yet have that confirmed. i can tell you we re getting new information through associated press . this is from associated press, and we now have an official confirmation from the douglas county board official, just told rate tiers at least 15 people have been shot and killed at umpqua community college. less than 20 but i don t have an exact number. 20 withouted 20 people wounded and we have just had confirmed that at least seven people are dead and 20 people are hurt. this is the reason i m never confident with reporting numbers in the early going on matters like this, because otruth is, diffe