UPDATE: “STATE YOUR RELIGION” – MAY BE 13-15 DEAD AT OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SHOOTING!!

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Another awful school shooting is being reported, this time in Oregon at a community college.

Watch below:

From KGW:

Seven to 10 people are dead and 20 others wounded during a shooting at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg Thursday morning, Oregon State Police told KGW.

The shooter was killed, police said. The local fire department asked people to avoid the area.

Police received a call of an active shooter in the classroom at the college at 10:30 a.m., local time,  according to the Douglass County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities in Roseburg, Ore., quickly spread the word and called on residents and students not to go to the campus.

“Active shooter at UCC. Please stay away from the area,”  Fire District No. 2 that serves Douglas County said on Twitter.

According to the Oregon State Police scanner traffic, authorities were preparing to release students from their classrooms, but asked that they be “patted down” before they were allowed to leave campus.

I’ll update with more information as it becomes available.

 
UPDATE: Here’s the dispatch on this shooting:

 
UPDATE: Reports are that up to 13-15 people may be dead:

FOX NEWS – Authorities confirmed multiple casualties to The Associated Press and the local fire district also tweeted that there were “multiple casualties” but did not elaborate. Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told a cable news network that it was her understanding that 13 people had died and the shooter was also dead. A Douglas County Board Assistant said preliminary reports indicated at least 15 people were dead, according to Reuters. Oregon State Police Lt. Bill Fugate told KATU-TV at least seven are dead and 20 are injured.

 
UPDATE: According to NRToday, the shooter asked people to know their religion before he shot them:

Kortney Moore, 18, from Rogue River, was in her Writing 115 class in Snyder Hall when one shot came through a window. She saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter was inside at that point, and he told people to get on the ground. The shooter was asking people to stand up and state their religion and then started firing away, Moore said. Moore was lying there with people who had been shot.

This is obviously something we’ve seen Muslims do in the past, as they don’t want to shoot other Muslims.

Of course this is all speculation and until we find out anything further.

 
UPDATE: Four guns were found at the scene:

Four guns recovered at the scene are believed to belong to the suspect, a law enforcement official tells CNN’s Evan Perez at @evanperez.


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