, one of the -- treven anspach, one of the youngest. >> i don't know how we'll move forward with our lives without equipment. our lives are shattered beyond re-- without quinn. our lives are shattered beyond repair. >> reporter: the gunman was enrolled in the class where the shooting happened. investigators recovered 13 letters from the shooter suggesting he may have been depressed and angry. cory boylan was in a nearby building when the gunman shot his sister. she survived. >> he started asking people to get up. she didn't move. >> reporter: they are friends with the clark sisters who were shot five times. a steady stream of people stood in mine for hours to donate blood -- line for hours to donate blood, a soon of a community coming together to heal. as for the school itself, it was shut down today and school officials tell us it will stay that way through next week. no classes here at all at least through next friday. live in roseburg, oregon tonight, i'm chris martinez, kpix5. >>> tonight 1 student who was in the classroom is being called a hero. 30-year-old chris mintz, an army

." >> reporter: treven anspach, who was shot and killed, fell across lacey, quite likely saving her life. her father raced to the campus to pick her up after the shooting. i bet you didn't just put her in the car. >> no. it was an amazing thing, man. she got out of the car, and she had blood all over her. it was all over her arm and all over her side and her pant, her other hand. i remember i wrapped my arms around her and we just squeezed. she squeezed me and i squeezed her. it was... it was the best hug i ever had in my life. >> reporter: after this campus reopens for classes, the building where the shooting took place will remain closed at least for a while. and while some students did come back here today, scott, there seems to be no rush to return to a place that has such terrible memories. >> pelley: john black don't reporting tonight. john, thank you. later in this broadcast, our we're going to hear from former congressman patrick kennedy. today the democratic front-runner in the presidential race added her voice to the conversation about gun violence and the question of whether t

anspach, who fell on top of her when he was shot, he later died. >> i believe he said i'm going to roll on to lacy. >> reporter: she lied under him, playing dead. this man was sitting next to her in the church. >> said you're the lucky one, you're not going to die today. >> reporter: meanwhile, chris mintz, hailed a hero by survivors and shot seven times, released this video. >> hello, everyone. i'm doing well and i'm overwhelmed by the support i've gotten from everybody. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, oregon. >> he spoke to a young woman who survived. an ana be oylan survived. she said the gunman asked who believed. saying the pain would be over in a moment. >> i could hear everyone breathing hard and freaking out and crying. he asked everyone to move to the center of the classroom. so we all kind of just >> you can hear much more of her story later exclusively on "good morning america." >>> presidential candidate hillary clinton, for one, is getting ready to stand up to the nra. her came pain says she'll unveil gun control measures that she promises to enact if she's elected p

and 20-year-old treven anspach was the son of a fire fighter. douglas county fire chief greg marlar delivered a message from treven's family. >> treven was larger than life and brought out the best in those around him. in justin and kim's words, "treven was a perfect son." >> reporter: there was also 34- year-old jason johnson, whose family said he finally found his path. sarena dawn moore. 59-year-old kim dietz, and the english professor, 67 year old lawrence levine. another student in that classroom was chris mintz, who's now being called a hero. the 30-year-old army veteran ran toward the gunman in an effort to stop him. he was shot seven times but survived. 18-year-old anna boylan had a bullet hit near her spine. as he lay wounded, she called her brother, telling him the gunman asked about their religion. >> he would stand them up, and if they said they were christian, he said something along the lines of "you'll be with god soon." >> reporter: anna survived by pretending to be dead. >> what it would take to lay on the ground with a gunshot,

and 20-year-old treven anspach was a fire and e.m.s. member. douk fire chief marl delivered a message from treven's family. >> treven was larger than life and brought out the best in those around him. in justin and kim's words, treven was a perfect son. >> reporter: there was also 34-year-old jacob johnson whose family said he finally found his path. sarena dawn moore. 59-year-old kim dietz, and the dplrk professor, 67 freerld lawrence levine. another student in that classroom was chris mintz, who's now being called a hero. the 30-year-old army veteran ran toward the gunman in an effort to stop him. he was shot seven times but survived. 18-year-old anna boylan had a bullet hit near her spine. as he lay wounded she called her brother telling him the gunman asked about their worry and brave. it's bravery. >> reporter: here at the college, classes have now been canceled for all of next week. this is a small community, scott, where virtually everyone has been touched in some way by this tragedy. >> pelley: john blackstone for us tonight. john, than

anspach, who fell on top of her after he was shot, later dying. >> i believe in the last moments that he had any conscious whatsoever, i believe he said, i'm going to roll on to lacy. playing dead. amazingly sitting next to lacy in church, this man. the student they say was chosen directly by the gunman to live. >> said you're the lucky one, you're not going to die today. >> reporter: meanwhile, chris mintz, hailed a hero by survivors and shot seven times, released this video. >> hello, everyone. i'm doing well and i'm overwhelmed by the support i've gotten from everybody. >> reporter: neal karlinsky, abc news, roseburg, oregon. >> our thanks to neal karlinsky, who also spoke exclusively to a young woman who survived. 18-year-old ana boylan survived. she said the gunman asked who believed. saying the pain would be over in a moment. and then they would be with with god. >> i could hear everyone breathing hard and freaking out and crying. center of the classroom. so we all kind of just army-crawled to the center. >> you can hear much more of her story later exclusively on "good morning

treven anspach was a part of the ems family. >> treven was one of the most positive young man. always looking for the best in life. >> reporter: 18-year-old rebecka ann carnes and cooper were the youngest. >> i don't know how we're going to move forward with our lives without quinn. our lives are shattered beyond >> police say that the gunman chris harper mercer an army boot camp dropout was enrolled in the english class where the shooting happened. investigators recovered 13 weapons and a letter from the shooter, suggesting that he may have been depressed and angry. corey boilin was in a nearby building when the gunman shot his sister. she survived. >> he start asking people to get up, asked my sister to get up. she didn't move. she played dead. >> reporter: and the clarks sisters are friends with a 19- year-old shot five times. >> she got shot right here and went right up through the front. >> reporter: a steady stream of people who wanted to do something for the victims stood in line for hours to donate blood. a sign of a community coming together to heal. chris martinez cbs

. >> next to her 20-year-old treven anspach has had been sht, his body fell across her. >> she thought she was going to die. >> i said what were you thinking at that time. and she said daddy, number one i started to pray. and i knew i was dying today. i knew this was my last day. and he said get up, get up, and she was froze to the floor. she played dead. he crossed overlaysy and shot the next one. i believe with all that i have that the blood of treven saved my little girl. >> reporter: there was another survivor, apparently given a message by the shooter. >> i understood that by the worsd of my daughter, that he gave him something, even mentioned a flash drive that is in this thing that he gave to the young man, and he actually said this will explain why i'm doing what i'm doing. as a father, there is no explanation for what happened on thursday. >> reporter: investigators have not spoken of the contents of that flash drive. for pastor scroggins, the day of the shooting ended with a reunion with his daughter outside the college. >> i bet you didn't just put her am the car. it was an

his daughter lacey was saved when fellow student treven anspach fell on top of her after he was shot. she played dead. >> reporter: witnesses say chris harper mercer showed no mercy ordering some victims to crawl and beg before taking tear lives. >> hello, everyone. >> reporter: army vet chris mintz who was shot seven times trying to save others posted this video to facebook. >> i'm overwhelmed by the support that i've gotten from everybody. i just want to wish all the other families a safe and speedy recovery. >> reporter: sitting next to lacey scroggins in church a student they say was specifically chosen by the gunman to live and deliver material to police. >> and the shooter said, "you're the lucky one. you're the one that's going to live. in this backpack, there's a flashdrive, things you're going to need." >> reporter: investigators have been scouring evidence for a motive. >> we did not want to be part of the sandy hook club. we're now members. >> reporter: umpqua community college will reopen this morning so students can collect belongings and get reacquainted. classes will no

you have treven tailor anspach. he was larger than life. you have lawrence levine. a teacher that loved to fly fish. you have lucero alcaraz and it goes on and on. matthew, to you. i want you to take a listen to how larry pratt, the execive director of gun owners of america, how he reacted todd shooting this morning. >> the problem is we're disarming the good guys. making them sit there and wait for a bullet, which is what happens with a mass murder in a gun free zone. and i think that is outrageous that we're not talking about the senators love for gun free zones. >>> matthew, a former atf agent, his point, one ek qchoed by mik huckabee says arm the good people, let them fight back. >> i lived out in that part of the country and no one out there wants people in schools with more gun. even the people with pro gun don't that want to be the atmosphere that children go to school in. at the end of the day we have to restrict access to people so we insure responsible gun ownership. i support the president's plea that we all come together in a nonpartisan way and develop

. >> it is with great sadness that we learned that our firefighter justin anspach lost his son, treven taylor anspach, on that day, and our ems paramedic bryant mcfadden lost his niece, rebecka ann carnes, on that day. >> reporter: 16-year-old cheyenne fitzgerald's mom, speaking for the first time, says she was shot in the back. she survived by playing dead but lost a kidney. >> she's having some tough times. healing is going to be slow. >> reporter: chris mintz, still recovering, is hailed a hero. the single father and army veteran charged the shooter, saving lives. now more than half a million dollars raised by strangers for his recovery. >> i'm doing well and i'm overwhelmed by the support that i've gotten from everybody. >> reporter: tonight there is some hope in all of this heartbreak. a community that has lost together now pulling together. the campus will reopen for staff and students on monday, but classes won't resume until a week from monday. many telling us tonight it is simply too quick to come back to this school. thomas? >> reporter: nbc's miguel almaguer, thank you. hero

." >> reporter: treven anspach, who was shot and killed, fell across lacey, quite likely saving her life. her father raced to the campus to pick her up after the shooting. i bet you didn't just put her in the car. >> no. we hugged. it was an amazing thing, man. she got out of the car, and she had -- she had blood all over. it was all over her arm and all over her side and her pants, her other hand. and i wrapped my arms around her, and we just squeezed. hey, man, we just -- she squeezed me and i squeezed her. it was -- it was the best hug i ever had in my life. >> reporter: after this campus reopens for classes, the building where the shooting took place will remain closed, at least for a while. and while some students did come back here today, scott, there seems to be no rush to return to a place that has [male announcer] for our troops and their families, the military is more than a career, it's a journey. and every step along the way, the uso is there. it's an experience that soldier will never forget... that's what the uso does. [announcer] from the time they join, to the time they t

in justin and kim's words, treven was a perfect son. >> josh is a friend of treven anspach and joins us on the phone. you guys were best friends. sorry about your loss. how are you doing? >> i'm doing okay in this position, best as i can be. >> how do you learn about it? >> i was actually called by a friend and was told that treven was involved and i didn't know if he made it or not so i just had to sit and camly wait to see what was going on so. >> i find that when people do this, they do it to honor their loved ones and friends. so tell us, if you will, you have been friends since you were in sixth grade. tell us what kind of a guy he was. what did he like to do? >> he loved basketball, basketball was his passion. he loved to fish. he was a very funny guy. he was always looking to make someone laugh. if he saw that you're in a bad mood, he was always aiming to up your spirits, try and crack a smile with you. very upbringing. very, very positive person. >> i understand josh that he was getting married and asked you to be his best man? >> yes. that was about maybe four months ago, so

treven taylor anspach of sutherland, 20 years old, and rebecca ann carnes of myrtle creek, 18 years old. >> douglas county sheriff josh hanlan saying the names of those remembers. lucero alcaraz was in the honors program in a full school lob shif. her older sister said i never got a chance to tell you how proud of you i was. i ache for you so much right now. lucero alcaraz 18 years old. rebecca ann carnes just started a new job who writes this isn't supposed to be how life works. lieu cause eibel was a quadruplet. he and his sisters and brother graduated from high school this year and attended on a scholarship studying creme most industry. he was 18. quinn glen cooper, yesterday was his fourth day of college. he and his brother cody were instepble. jason dale johnson was 33, a proud christian according to his family and enrolled college student. they say he finally found his path. lawrence levine taught the class where the fatal shootings took place, he was 67. we don't yet know much about kim saltmarsh dietz or serena dawn moore or treven taylor anspach except he looked for the positiv

quinn cooper, 18, his fourth day of college. 20-year-old treven anspach was the son of a local firefighter. once the shooter was down shot by police a young woman hit in the leg needed help getting out. >> had a gunshot wound in her leg, so i picked her up and carried her to the end of the breezeway, gave her to a cop. >> reporter: you didn't know you had that strength. >> no, she was somebody's kid. she was shot. she was panic stricken. >> reporter: then went back to be with chris. >> i just knelt down. i just held his hand and told him i wouldn't leave him. >> reporter: that hero chris mintz has really touched people. a gofundme page has been set up to raise money for him and his family and in less than 24 hours it raised more than $528,000, amazing. dan. >> that is great and such a powerful interview, neal, thank you. >>> also this morning, we're learning a lot more about how this vicious attack went down and about the shooter himself. another apparently troubled young man with ready access to guns and abc's matt gutman is in roseburg. matt, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, good m

treven anspach was 20 years old, the son of a ifrt firefighter here here. rebecka carnes, the niece of a paramedic. one of the most emotional moments came when chief revealed there were two fatalities that were families of the ems community here. it was just a truly emotional moment. >> the reading of those names something we expected all day. but when you actually hear them even from a far here an emotional thing. live on the scene there, thank you for joining us. appreciate that. the mother of one of the victims, jason johnson just shared her memories. she says she knew something was wrong when she didn't hear from her son yesterday. she knew he would have called. she remembers him as a proud man who listened to people and who loved god. >> i will love him forever but i will never see his smiling face again. >> and this was jason johnson's first week as a student at the community college. he was 33 years old. nine other people who were caught in the shooting spree went to the hospital for treatment. morgan ratford is live in roseburg to share stories of t

. >> treven anspach's family said he brought the best out of everyone around them. sarena dawn moore was excited to go back to school for a business degree. lucas eibel, he loved chemistry and seeing future farmers of america and volunteering at an animal shelter. hard not to be moved by all of these folks. >> by anyone being a tragedy and it's interesting to see how nationally, this has become such a topic of conversation. we've seen president obama address this twice. he's caught a lot of flak not just other people running for president but also in the sense from in oregon saying it's just too early. it's just too raw for this to become a political issue. at least family members. >> pictures up on the screen and just let the families know we're praying for them. >> what rod wheeler said as well, remember the victims, celebrate them rather than talk about the perpetrator, which is what we've tried to do. >> absolutely. >>> moving on, feeling the strain. thousands of migrants continue to pour into europe and now shut down a major transportation artery. we'll tell yo

treven anspach, the son of a local firefighter, and larry levine, an assistant professor of english at the school. and then there's chris mintz, the military vet and young father turned student, turned hero because of his actions yesterday. mintz rushed the gunman, took seven bullets to his legs and stomach trying to tackle him. >> trying to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in. he was shot three times, hit the floor. he looked up at the gunman and said, "it's my son's birthday today." mary: but the gunman kept shooting mintz anyway. from his hospital bed, mintz told abc news, "i just hope that everyone else is okay. i'm just worried about everyone else." a gofundme page for chris mintz is breaking records. in a matter of hours, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised for this hometown hero. he'll have a long road to recovery, but he will survive. i'm mary saladna, wcvb, newscenter 5. antoinette: we're now hearing from a family that truly understands the horror of the oregon shootings. their child, killed in the sandy hook elementary school shooting three years ag

treven anspach was the son of a local firefighter here in this community. his family said that he was always positive and that he looked for the best in life. a great loss there. and one of his friends was even on the air with anderson cooper last night, saying, we love you, treven. it was a very heartfelt and very sad moment. rebecka ann carnes, 18 years old. she had just started school, and at the same time she was working at a new job, so was working and studying at the same time. her cousin wrote this about her on facebook. "this isn't supposed to be how life works." and how true that is. not just for her, but also for the others. like sarena dawn moore, who was 44 years old and a member of the adventist church. her pastor once said, sarena's last post on her facebook, that she had expressed her desire to stand up for jesus and for christianity, and we all know now that this shooter was questioning his victims about their christianity. we do know that he did shoot those who said they were christian. and quinn cooper was 18 years old. he was attending hi

nineteen year-old lou sayer a alvarez wants to be a news, treven anspach was part have of the local fire and e ms fire. >> treven was one of the most positive young machine, always looking for the the best in life. >> reporter: eighteen year-old rebecca carnes, lucas eibel and quinn cooper were the the youngest. cooper a's family released a statement through police. >> i don't know how we're going to move forward with our lives, without quinn. our lives are shattered beyond repair. >> reporter: police say the gun man chris harper mercer, an army boot camp drop out, was enrolled in the english class where the the shooting happen. investigators recovered 13 weapons and a letter from the shooter suggesting he may have been depressed and angry. corry boylen was in the nearby building when the gun man shot his sister, she survived. >> he started to ask people to get up, asked my sister to get up. she didn't move. she played dead. >> reporter: clark sisters are friend with the 19 year-old who was shot five times. >> got shot right here and went right up through the front. >> reporter: steady s

also 44-year-old serena dawn moore, 20-year-old treven anspach andqú;ñ rebecca barnes. this college attracted people of all ages. it wasn't a traditional college. you had a mix of people. one young man was four months out of high school and only a couple of weeks into college and of course, you had people who were in their 30s, 40s and 50s taking classes. we'll stay on top of this story and we'll have a lot more coming up in the next hour. jim? >> chris, thank you. the tragedy in oregon is renewing a push now for reform when it comes to guns in our country. there are calls for stricter firearm laws, but critics say the guns aren't the problem. news 4's megan fitzgerald talk to people on both sides of this heated debate. >> once again, another mass shooting topping headlines and covering newspapers all across the country, but are we getting any closer to answering the question of how we stop the violence? >> reporter: today the dialogue around what should be done going forward is ramping up again. news 4 caught up with virginia governor forry mcauliffe after ask the gove

treven anspach, a talented athlete. he worked with the fire county district when he wasn't in class. his parents referred to him as the perfect son. kim dietz. kim dietz loved the outdoors, her 18-year-old daughter and her two pyrenees dogs and she worked as a caretaker at the pyrenees vineyard. jason johnson, age 33. jason recently turned his life around. after completing a six-month rehab program with the salvation army, he decided to continue his education. as his mother said, he had finally found his path. certificate real estate in a moore. sarena moore was in her third semester at umpqua community college studying business. she was an active member of the seventh day adventist church and the proud mother of two adult sons. lawrence levine was the professor teaching the writing class that was assaulted by the gunman. he loved the blues. he loved fly-fishing. and writing was his passion. and rebecc rebecka carnes. rebecca graduated just last year from south umpqua high school and in her picture, she's holding a grad

treven taylor anspach of sutherlin, 20 years old. and rebecca ann carnes of myrtle creek, 18 years old. >> we now know the names of those killed. more on what we've learned about their lives. what have you found out? >> they're more than just the names the sheriff was reading. they were students, just four days into their college career, many of them. there were nine lost in all. eight of them students, one of them was their teacher. the teacher you heard, larry levine. these are sons, daughterins. two of them were related to firefighters in this town. many of them liked to be in the outdoors. a lot of them were athletes. what they all had in common is that they all had this thread of education. and we want to take a look at just a few of these people so we can get to know them. lucero al luceroalcarez wanted to be a pediatric nurse. she wants to be able to joke about the size of starbucks cups. >> her sister never got to say how proud she was of her. >> and it's through that public discussion that she's hopefully trying to communica

taylor anspach, rebecca ann carnes. >> president obama saying. >> this is a political choice we make to allow this to happen every few months in america. we are answerable to those families who lose their loved ones because of our inaction. >> joining me now is mark kelly of americans for responsible solutions whose wife, congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot by a gunman in tucson, arizona who killed six other people. thank you for joining us, mark. i want to get to gun laws in a second. after sandy hook, president obama talked about addressing this crisis in a holistic way going after the culture, addressing mental health issues, and also, gun laws. right now the white house only seems focussed on give un laws. is that the right approach? >> let my say that gabby and i are saddened by the shooting at umpqua community college. we have them in our thoughts and prayers. it's sad where we have a situation it almost seems now weekly there's a mass shooting. you know, we have gun violence 15 to 20 times higher than other developed nations. and it's, you know, for one basic reason we h

. >> the son of a local firefighter, 20-year-old treven taylor anspach. and a professor of english, 57-year-old. and jason johnson started after recently completing a repack program. here's his cousin. >> it is supposed to be the other way around. when you do the wrong thing it is supposed to be bad and when you do the right thing you learn what you should have been doing and what you are going to do from then on but he never got that chance unfortunately. 44-year-old sarena dawn moore. and at aim 59. kim saltmarsh dietz, someone posted online she stood in front of the door to block the shooter. all killed in a writing class, and yet there's no sentence, words that will capture the magnitude of the loss. abc7 news. >>> the annual march for elephants will make its way through san francisco. just to be clear, noel fans will actually be marching. it's a group that brings attention to the thousands of african elephants killed each year for their ivory. china is the world's largest market for illegal ivory. but the government there has recently pledged to end

treven taylor anspach. his family said he was always larger than life and brought out the best in those around him. in justin and kim's word, treven was a perfect son. >> rebecka ann carnes, 18 years old, had just started school and a new job. her cousin wrote on facebook, this isn't supposed to be how life works. serena dawn moore, 44 years old, was a member of the seventh day adventist church. her pastor said one of sarena's last posts expected her desire to stand up for jesus and christianity. quinn glen cooper, just 81, was attending his fourth day of college. he and his brother, cody, were inseparable. >> i don't know how we are going to move forward with our lives without quinn. our lives your shattered beyond repair. we send our condolences to all the families who have been so tragically affected by the strange gunman. no one should ever feel the pain that we are feeling. >> it is such a hard story to tell. we are also learning that the gunman in the shooting, he was also a student in the class where

however, it is with great sadness that we learned that our firefighter lost his son, treven taylor anspach. and lost rebecka that day. i've rallied how they support our families. i've been involved. the briefings are available for the personnel and those who responded to the scene. and deal with their families and help with their recovery. please respect their privacy so that they can spend time with their family and friends. if you have further questions regarding our organization and our incident response, i will be making myself available after this news conference for additional interviews. i haven't stopped thinking about the many other families that have experienced an unthinkable loss. the entire fire fighting and ems community is praying for everyone during this time. we're also thinking about those nine that were injured. and those are patients and we wish them a full and speedy recovery as quick as possible. the direct support that we receive from agencies throughout the state has been incredible. we specifically wanted to identify and bank the city of roseburg fire department, b