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Oregon college gunman's family shocked; he shared views on religion online
Authorities in Roseburg, Ore. have not speculated on why 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer killed nine at Umpqua Community College before dying in a shootout with police officers. At a news conference Thursday evening, an agitated Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin offered little detail about the gunman. Public records don’t indicate that Harper-Mercer had a previous criminal history and most of what is known about him at this point is through those records, family and his online presence ...
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Mercer’s disdain for organized religion was evident on his social media, where he identified as “not religious, but spiritual."
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