Victory Girls Blog
"Yesterday was a day filled with unimaginable horror and great courage for students and staff at Umpqua Community College. A gunman opened fire on students and staff for reasons we will never understand. We now know his name and it will be bandied about in the same breath as one mentions the Charleston church, Sandy Hook, or even Columbine shooters.
"Chris Mintz, 30, was in his first week of class at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday when a man, identified by officials as 26-year-old [name deleted], walked into Snyder Hall, where classes are held, and started shooting.
"Mintz reportedly tried “to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in,” Mintz’s aunt, Wanda Mintz, told Q13 Fox News in Oregon.
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Most of all, Chris’s focus was on his son, Tyrik. In fact, the reason Chris is living in Oregon was to help raise his boy. As he lay wounded after the gunman shot him *5 times, his only thoughts were of his son.
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"As Chris recovers from his gunshot wounds, starts the process of learning to walk again, and hugs his son close – it is worth reading something he wrote on Facebook just a few weeks ago." . . .*Other reports say seven times.
"You're not getting by me."
. . . "According to Fox 8, when the gunman tried to enter Mintz’s class, Mint
z told the students in his classroom to get to a safe place, then said to the shooter “you’re not getting by me”:
People always remember the shooter and never the hero. REMEMBER: Chris Mintz who took *five bullets trying to stop the shooter. #UCCShooting
"Yesterday was a day filled with unimaginable horror and great courage for students and staff at Umpqua Community College. A gunman opened fire on students and staff for reasons we will never understand. We now know his name and it will be bandied about in the same breath as one mentions the Charleston church, Sandy Hook, or even Columbine shooters."Mintz reportedly tried “to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in,” Mintz’s aunt, Wanda Mintz, told Q13 Fox News in Oregon.
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Most of all, Chris’s focus was on his son, Tyrik. In fact, the reason Chris is living in Oregon was to help raise his boy. As he lay wounded after the gunman shot him *5 times, his only thoughts were of his son.
. . .
"As Chris recovers from his gunshot wounds, starts the process of learning to walk again, and hugs his son close – it is worth reading something he wrote on Facebook just a few weeks ago." . . .*Other reports say seven times.
"You're not getting by me."
. . . "According to Fox 8, when the gunman tried to enter Mintz’s class, Mint
z told the students in his classroom to get to a safe place, then said to the shooter “you’re not getting by me”:“At that point, the shooter shot him five times and the shooter moved on and apparently didn’t go in to that classroom,” Pastor Dennis Kreiss told People. ”I applaud the guy’s heroism. He may have saved the people in that classroom.”. . . "Mintz’s cousin Ariana Earnhardt told Fox 8:
"His vital signs are OK. He’s going to have to learn to walk again, but he walked away with his life and that’s more than so many other people did."
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