Chris Harper-Mercer Idolized Nazis and IRA

Daily Mail:

The Oregon college gunman who murdered at least ten people was today named as Chris Harper-Mercer – a 26-year-old with links to Britain who idolised other mass murderers and said: ‘The more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight’.

The killer, who said he idolized the IRA and Nazis, yesterday walked into Umpqua Community College in Roseburg wearing body armour and carrying three handguns and a rifle before shooting dead students.

Witnesses said he had made his victims stand-up at gunpoint and say if they were Christian before telling them: ‘Good, you’ll see God in a second’ and shooting them. Survivors saved their own lived by playing dead.

After his bloody rampage was reported to police he was then killed in a gunfight with officers with one source saying: ‘He appears to be an angry young man who was very filled with hate’.

His British father Ian Mercer, who lives in California, said today: ‘I’m just as shocked as everybody at what happened today. I’ve just been talking to the police and the FBI. That’s all the details I have right now, is what you know already.

He added: ‘Obviously, it’s been a devastating day. Devastating for me and my family’. 

Neighbours said Harper-Mercer from was a visibly ‘anxious’ and friendless loner who surfed dating sites looking for love – and was often seen wearing camouflage clothing and may even have joined the U.S. Army. 

Posts across a host of websites also show how Harper-Mercer apparently idolized the violence of Nazi Germany and the Irish Republican Army.

He used a reference to a Nazi war medal as his dating profile name, and posted glowing reviews of Nazi memorabilia he had bought online.

His Myspace page is littered with images glorifying masked IRA fighters, lauding them as ‘undefeated’ and ‘looking cool’ – right next to images of him holding a rifle.

Harper-Mercer wrote in a post this August about how much he admired Vester Flanagan, the Roanoke shooter who killed a cameraman and newscaster at the television station where he had been employed after getting fired. 

On that same profile it also showed that just three days ago Harper-Mercer uploaded This World Surviving Sandy Hook BBC Documentary 2015 for people to watch on the file sharing site.

‘On an interesting note, I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone,’ wrote Harper-Mercer of Flanagan. 

‘His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.’

He closed by saying; ‘Also, if anyone gets the chance, go on youtube and see the footage of him shooting those people. It’s a short video but good nonetheless. Will post more later.’ 

According to his profile on a dating site Harper-Mercer is ‘mixed race,’ a ‘conservative Republican,’ ‘not religious’ and lives with his mother – and appears to have a large family in Britain.

State Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and other officials said 13 people were killed in Thursday’s shooting, though that number may have been too high.

‘At this time, we are reporting and can confirm 10 fatalities in the shooting,’ Douglas County sheriff’s deputies, Sheriff John Hanlin said Thursday evening.

‘This number is the best, most accurate information that we have at this time.’ …

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