{"id":43051,"date":"2015-10-03T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T21:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43051"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:42:16","slug":"chris-harper-mercer-details-emerge-of-oregon-college-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43051","title":{"rendered":"Chris Harper Mercer: details emerge of Oregon college killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/oct\/02\/chris-harper-mercer-first-details-emerge-of-oregon-college-killer\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Harper Mercer: details emerge of Oregon college killer<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-02<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bencjacobs\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Jacobs<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickyWoolf\" target=\"_blank\">Nicky Woolf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/oct\/02\/chris-harper-mercer-first-details-emerge-of-oregon-college-killer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6aeff3f5acc341c98c67012524aeb7c73fabe58d\/0_14_602_361\/master\/602.jpg?w=620&amp;q=85&amp;auto=format&amp;sharp=10&amp;s=fd51233cab2e58812f7f5511ba6b283d\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting#Perpetrator\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Harper Mercer<\/a>, the alleged gunman in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oregon\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon<\/a> shootings. He had captioned this photo: \u2018Me, holding a rifle.\u2019 Photograph: <em>Myspace<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College\" target=\"_blank\">Umpqua college<\/a> shooter, who was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> according to media reports, had a varied online presence that indicated support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_Republican_Army\" target=\"_blank\">IRA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">The Umpqua shooter<\/a> has been named as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting#Perpetrator\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Harper Mercer<\/a>, a 26-year-old who lived with his mother at an apartment only a few miles from the college.<\/p>\n<p>American media reports said he was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> and moved to the US at a young age: his stepsister, Carmen Nesnick, told CBS Los Angeles that he travelled to the US as a young boy. Other accounts report that Nesnick specified that Harper-Mercer was born in England&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/oct\/02\/chris-harper-mercer-first-details-emerge-of-oregon-college-killer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Harper Mercer: details emerge of Oregon college killer The Guardian 2015-10-02 Ben Jacobs and Nicky Woolf Chris Harper Mercer, the alleged gunman in the Oregon shootings. He had captioned this photo: \u2018Me, holding a rifle.\u2019 Photograph: Myspace Umpqua college shooter, who was born in England according to media reports, had a varied online presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[21262,21266,21261,21265,21264,21263,2103],"class_list":["post-43051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ben-jacobs","tag-carmen-nesnick","tag-chris-harper-mercer","tag-ian-mercer","tag-laurel-margaret-harper","tag-nicky-woolf","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51639,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43051\/revisions\/51639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}