| − | The shooter was a 26-year-old social misfit. The ''Daily Mail'' describes him as "a friendless oddball who had frequent temper tantrums, no friends, wore cargo short and combat boots and screaming fights with his mother".<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258269/Oregon-college-shooter-friendless-oddball-frequent-temper-tantrums-no-friends-wore-cargo-short-combat-boots-screaming-fights-mother-say-former-neighbors.html</ref> The US Army kicked Harper-Mercer out only five weeks into boot camp. His father, Ian Mercer's then girlfriend who changed his diapers descried Harper-Mercer as a difficult.<ref>http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/10/new_details_emerge_on_umpqua_c.html</ref> Harper-Mercer was racist towards blacks even though his mother was Laurel Harper was black.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/10/02/cnn-oregon-shooter-rambled-about-hatred-toward-black-men-being-a-virgin-in-writings/</ref> | + | The shooter was a 26-year-old social misfit. The ''Daily Mail'' describes him as "a friendless oddball who had frequent temper tantrums, no friends, wore cargo short and combat boots and screaming fights with his mother".<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258269/Oregon-college-shooter-friendless-oddball-frequent-temper-tantrums-no-friends-wore-cargo-short-combat-boots-screaming-fights-mother-say-former-neighbors.html</ref> The US Army kicked Harper-Mercer out just five weeks into boot camp. His father, Ian Mercer's then girlfriend who changed his diapers descried Harper-Mercer as a difficult.<ref>http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/10/new_details_emerge_on_umpqua_c.html</ref> Harper-Mercer was racist towards blacks even though his mother, Laurel Harper was black.<ref>http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/10/02/cnn-oregon-shooter-rambled-about-hatred-toward-black-men-being-a-virgin-in-writings/</ref> |