Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday became the site of the third-most-deadly mass shooting ever to occur on a college campus.
A lone gunman identified as a 26-year-old local man shot and killed 10 people and injured seven more at the rural two-year campus, reported The New York Times and many other news outlets.
According to several accounts, the shooting began Thursday morning in a writing class in Snyder Hall. An instructor was killed, as were several students. The gunman, identified in news reports as Chris Harper Mercer, was killed after exchanging fire with sheriff’s deputies, said John Hanlin, Douglas County sheriff.
While many fatal shootings have occurred at colleges in recent years, only the 2007 mass killing at Virginia Tech and the 1966 shooting at the University of Texas at Austin resulted in more deaths.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/02/oregon-community-college-site-third-worst-mass-shooting-college-campus