tears still fall for victims like rebecka ann carnes, who had just started college. ♪ amazing grace theyemember every incident life lost here. the youngest 18. the oldest 67. first responders lost members of their own family. >> 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 reope

tears still fall from victims like rebecka ann carnes who had just started college. amazing grace >> reporter: they remember every incident life lost here. the youngest 18. the oldest, 67. first responders lost members of their own family. >> it is with great sadness we learned that our firefighter -- justin answer pak lost his son treven that day and a niece lost, rebecka ann carnes on that day. >> reporter: this mom speaking for the first time says she was shot in the back, survived by playing dead but lost a kidney. >> she's having -- a tough time. healing is going to be -- slow. >> reporter: chris mintz, still recovering, is hail add ed a hero. he charged the shooter saving lives. more than half a million dollars raised by strangers for his recovery. >> i'm doing well and 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

. >> 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 news, roseburg, oregon. >> sources say that the 13 guns recovered from the school and harper mercer's apartments were all purchased lega

. >> reporter: to help the family of rebecka ann carnes. >> rebecka would take her time.st to say hi and talk to me for a few minutes. she touched my heart. >> reporter: he is also close with her father. >> her dad, you know, we talked yesterday. that he has no doubt that my daughter stood up and said i am a christien. and fortunately it brought me to tears. but that's the way that you'll want to remember her. >> reporter: boyd plans to give to the general ucc fund. >> and we are probably over $1,000 at this point. >> it's no surprise. we all stand together always. it's a small town and that is what we're going to do. >> reporter: and this small town is doing just that. >> i feel that if we have everybody's support that we'll get through this. >> reporter: to raise money for the victims and their family. >> i was hoping maybe if 50 people came, at least it is better than nothing. if one person shows up and it is just me and my friend walking at least we would have so many people to come and offer their support to the community, it's amazing. >> reporter: together they say

rebecka ann carnes was the niece of a paramedic. >> the story of chris mintz is just amazing what he did there and that he was able to survive. just heartbreaking especially the one about quinn cooper. >> reporter: their family was detailed about quinn. they gave us an insight in to his personality and they also say that he was very close to his brother. that ed take his test next week because they really want you to remember quinn ending their statement saying that they want the people out there to remember the victims and their families and they say to please remember quinn. >> we'll hear the stories of the other victims as welcoming up. thank you, cristina. we'll have more on this story on air and on ktvu.com as new information becomes available. >>> alameda county prosecutor is back at work after being cleared of wrong doing. bach was placed on paid leave back in august. attorneys refuted the gang leader raymond shrimp boy chow accusing them of laundering money. internal district attorney's office and investigation would look in to whether or not that he violated any laws during

son, treven tailor snspach on that day, and that another first responder lost his northeast, rebecka ann carnes. i have been involved with emergency response for 32 years and i know that nothing can completely prepare you for the physical and mental toll that this can take. debriefings have been made available and are on going from our personnel and those that responded to the scene and deal with their families and help with their recovery. please respect their privacy so they can spend time with their family and friends. if you have further questions regarding our organization, or our incident response that day,ly make myself available after in press conference for more questions. i have been thinking about the families that have experiencing loss. we're also thinking about the nine that were injured. those are our patients and we wish them a full and speedy recovery as quickly as possible. the direct support that we recier received from agencies throughout the state has been incredible. we want to identify and thank the city of roseberg figure department. bay city's ambulance and the roseburg

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. sarena dawn moore, 34 years old, was a member of the seven-dayed a ventas church. her pastor says one of her last posts on facebook was her desire to stand up for jesus and christianity. quinn cooper, just 18, was attending his eighth day of college. he and his brother, cody, were inseparable. >> i don't know how we're going to move forward with our lives without quinn. our lives are shattered beyond repair. we send our condolences to all of the families who have been so tragically affected by this deranged gunman. no one should ever feel the pain that we are feeling. >> i want to bring in our team coverage on the ground in roseburg. our sara sidner, who's at the roseburg public safety center. that is where we are expecting an update from police shortly, and ashleigh banfield, who is on the campus of umpqua community college. ashleigh, i know you've been there for days and i want to start off with you first. you h

rebecka ann carnes, 18 years old.he 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 his fourth day of college. fourth day into his college career. he and his brother, cody, were said to be inseparable. those are some of the stories of those who lost their lives. and i'll tell you this, suzanne, there was one very poignant story that was told to me by shelby ramboldt, she was

. >> 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 he opened fire. cnn has decided not to show the gunman's photo. we are also not reporting his name, because he wanted notoriety for the shooting. it is not necessary to give him that. we are also hearing new information

one of the victims, rebecka ann carnes was related to oregon senator jeff merkley who grew up in the i can't imagine what it must have been like for you, senator, to learn of the shooting in your state, your home state, a place where you grew up, called home, to then also learn one of the victims is related to you. this was your cousin's great granddaughter. >> yes. initially, of course, my stuff pulled me aside when i was in d.c. and said you have a tragedy in oregon. it's a tragedy in douglas county. douglas county is where i come from. i lived in myrtle creek and roseburg as a toddler. i had no idea a family member had been a victim until i'm driving down from roseburg. i get a call from my mother, having been called by another cousin. of course when it's in your state it has an impact. when it's in your county, hometown, but when it's your family, it just brings home the incredible numbers across america have become very personal. this cousin, rebecka, 18 years old. >> just graduated from high school. >> on her cap she wrote the words and so the adventure begins. and she was look

sympathies to those who were killed in portland, lou sarah alcaraz, treven taylor anspach, rebecka ann carnes, quinn glen cooper, kim saltmarsh dietz, lucas eibel, jason dale johnson, lawrence levine, a professor there and sarena dawn moore. we're arching one mass shooting -- that's multiple people, being shot at one particular moment. more mass shootings that we have days in the year. and of course for us, this shooting and the information that came out in the aftermath of it was particularly chilling because we've seen this young man before, a young man christopher harper-mercer was isolated, withdrawn, obsessed with guns. his family had many of them. he had rebuffed attempts at socialization by his family. he had grievances that he mainly shared with himself, and he eventually turned those grievances on nine people who died and about an equal number who were injured. we know that story because we saw it play out in connecticut as well. mentally young man. took out his frustrations and his outrage on 20 little kids in sandy hook elementary. but i guess what to me is definitional about this

rebecka ann carnes, the niece of a paramedic here. that has hit the community particularly hard.oday, we are expecting a news conference at the public safety building where we hope to get more information from law enforcement officials here in douglas county. >> msnbc's jacob silveroff, thank you. >>> there were more people injured in thursday's shooting. for more on their story, let's go to msnbc's morgan ratford at the medical center in roseburg. >> reporter: as you mentioned, we are here at mercy medical center where two of the survivors are being treated. three others are being treated at sacred heart hospital. one was released last night. we're also learning new detail also about the suspected shooter from those recently released survivors, one of whom told the newspaper here in oregon that the shooter actually asked students to gather in the center of the classroom. but he didn't target christians specifically. instead, he asked what their religions were, if they believed in god, and then chillingly said, i'll meet you there. suggesting that he knew he was not going to leav

innocent people, quinn cooper, lucas eibel, jason johnson, lou sarah alcaraz, quinn cooper and rebecka ann carneschris mintz now has a gofund me page that has collected over $700,000 to help with his medical expenses. we've learned another shooting survivor, 16-year-old cheyenne fitzgerald, the youngest shooting victim, is now in fair condition. she's been upgraded. she was here studying in the nursing program. there have been a number of vigils all in honor of the victims. >> our community -- ♪ -- has just been torn apart. >> it's hard to process the whole thing. i'm still in disbelief. >> witnesses say that 26-year-old chris harper mercer told the people in that classroom that had he been wanting to do this for years. he gave one student an envelope and told that student to go into the corner and said that he would let him survive to tell the story. he then proceeded to ask students if they were christ fen and unloaded on the entire classroom. we learned from one of the victim's father, a pastor in this area, apparently mercer said, i'm hit, laid down and seemed to give up. we've been told that