The Oregon
college shooter praised the gunman who shot his former colleagues on
live television saying his actions made him famous, saying: 'People like
him have nothing to live for.'
Chris
Harper-Mercer, 26, killed at least 10 people when he opened fire at
Umpqua Community College in Roseburg on Thursday morning.
He was shot dead on the campus by police officers.
According
to his profile on a dating site, Harper-Mercer was looking for love but
only interested in someone who 'shares my beliefs and is similar to
me'.
And
in a hate-filled blog post in August, he spoke of his admiration for
Vester Flanagan, the Roanoke shooter who killed a cameraman and
newscaster at the station where he had been employed.
On August
26, Flanagan shot his former colleagues, WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and
cameraman Adam Ward live on television in Roanoke, Virginia.
Harper-Mercer
said Flanagan's actions - and his subsequent posting of footage of the
killings on social media - made the whole world aware of him.
'A
man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone,' he said. '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.'
On that same
profile, using the name user named 'Lithium_Love', it also showed that
just three days ago, Harper-Mercer uploaded a documentary called
Surviving Sandy Hook, a BBC program about the 2012 school shooting in
Newtown, Connecticut, for people to watch on the file-sharing site.
And in his post about Flanagan, he also wrote: 'Anyone who knew him could have seen this coming.
'People like him have nothing left to live for, and the only thing left to do is lash out at a society that has abandoned them.'
He posted
the footage on Facebook and Twitter as well tweeting while he was
running from the cops because he wanted the world to see his actions,
much like many others post menial and trivial details of their life
online and expect us to see it.
'Only his was at least a bit more interesting.'
He
added: '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.'
He also urged others to watch the clips, adding: 'It's a short video but good nonetheless.'
And a
dating profile for Harper-Mercer suggests he was just as lonely and
looking for love, much like Flanagan. Harper-Mercer also uploaded a
significant number of pornographic videos to a file-sharing website.
Describing
himself as 'shy at first, but warm up quickly', he said he was looking
for 'the yin to my yang' and 'someone who shares my beliefs, and is
similar to me'.
He described his personality as a 'lover,
conservative, professional, intellectual, introvert' but said he was
'not religious but spiritual'.
According to his profile, Harper-Mercer is 'mixed race'
And a neighbor of Harper-Mercer, who lived in Winchester, Oregon, said he 'seemed really unfriendly'.
Bronte Hart lived below the 26-year-old in an apartment complex in the community of Winchester.
She says Mercer would 'sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light.'
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