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Oregon gunman targeted Christians: a victims tells father

| | Oct 02, 2015, at 11:39 pm
Washington, Oct 2 (IBNS): thew father of a student, who was injured in the shooting incident at Umpqua Community College in US state of Oregon, said the gunman was targeting Christians during the attack.

Anastasia Boylan told her father that after entering her classroom the gunman told the professor that he was waiting to do it for years.

The gunman, while reloading his handgun, ordered the students to stand up and asked if they were Christians, Boylan was quoted as saying to her family by CNN.

"And they would stand up and he said, 'Good, because you're a Christian, you're going to see God in just about one second,'" Boylan's father, Stacy, told CNN, relaying her account.

"And then he shot and killed them," he said.

A gunman opened fire in the  Oregon's Umpqua Community College which left 10 people killed on Thursday.

The gunman has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer who was also shot dead, reports said.
 

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