UmpquaCommCollege1Roseburg, Oregon (AP) Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says 13 people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a community college in the rural city of Roseburg.
 
     The shooting happened Thursday morning on the campus of Umpqua (UMP’-kwah) Community College, about 180 miles south of Portland.
 
     Authorities said earlier that at least 13 people were dead. More than 20 other people were injured.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says the gunman in a deadly mass shooting at a community college was a 20-year-old man.
 
     Authorities say the man is dead after killing 13 people and injuring at least 20 others.

 Officers responded and found the gunman on campus. They exchanged gunfire with the man, and he died in or near a classroom.
 
     It wasn’t immediately known if  the gunman killed himself or was killed by police.
     Andrea Zielinski, spokeswoman for Douglas County sheriff’s office, says the threat to the school has subsided. 
     Meanwhile, the FBI says it’s sending teams to Roseburg to assist.

 A student at the Oregon community college where a mass shooting occurred says the gunman shot her teacher and asked others in her classroom about their religion before spraying more bullets.
 
     Eighteen-year-old Kortney Moore of Rogue River tells the Roseburg News-Review newspaper that she was in a writing class at Umpqua (UHMP’-kwah) Community College in Roseburg on Thursday when a shot came through a window.
 
     The gunman entered her classroom and told people to get on the ground.
 
     Moore says the man started asking people to stand up and state their religion and then opened fire.
 
     The shooting left 13 people dead and at least 20 injured.
 
     Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin says authorities responded and exchanged gunfire with the man. He says the shooter died at the scene, but he didn’t say whether the man killed himself or was shot by police.

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Previously…

ROSEBURG, Oregon (AP) –  Authorities are reporting multiple casualties in a shooting at a community college in southwestern Oregon.

In a tweet Thursday, the local fire district advised people to stay away from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. The city is about 180 miles south of Portland.

The fire district later reported there were multiple casualties but released no further details.

Umpqua Community College has about 3,000 students. Its website was down Thursday, and a phone message left at the school wasn’t immediately returned.