New facts have emerged in the mass shooting that took place on Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, indicating that the shooter specifically targeted Christians for murder.
The 26-year-old gunman Chris Harper-Mercer murdered nine people and wounded at least seven others before being killed in a shootout with police, according to official updated figures.
"The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian," wrote one woman on Twitter who said her grandmother was in the classroom where Harper-Mercer began his rampage.
One student of the college, 18-year-old Kortney Moore, told the local News-Review  that she was in a writing class when a bullet crashed through the window.