Roseburg marks one-year anniversary of mass shooting

[Rocknrule]

Source: Spokesman

To mark the one-year anniversary of one of the deadliest shootings in Oregon, a moment of silence fell Friday over the campus of a community college near Roseburg where the shooting occurred.

Saturday marks one year after Chris Harper Mercer killed nine people and injured nine others at Umpqua Community College before dying in a shootout with police Oct. 1, the Register-Guard reported. To mark the somber occasion the campus held a moment of silence on campus at 10:38 a.m. Friday, the same time of the shooting but one day early.

“We’re really doing a fairly low-key, solemn” remembrance, said college spokeswoman Anne-Marie Levis said. “Campus is still open, it’s still a day of classes, so we’ll be solemn and remember but not have a big thing that day.”

Other memorials were planned in the area for Friday.

Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/30/roseburg-marks-one-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooti/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Seems like everyday we celebrate anniversaries

of mass-shootings and the passing of pop culture icons

a morbid way to mark the passage of time

[Zippyzagnut]

2. Please remove his name

Please consider removing the name of "the shooter". It only honors him. This is my community and we hurt every time we see his name. Thank you.

[mountain grammy]

4. Yes

One thing I've noticed in Colorado, where unfortunately we're getting pretty experienced with mass shootings, is the news media stops calling the murderer by name. Only the name of the victims are remembered, as it should be.

[Mc Mike]

3. 9 dead, I couldn't remember the incident.