With a group of people. Some of them egging him on, others calling him a hero. Moments ago, an angry president obama addressed the nation. Earlier this year i answered a question in an interview by saying the United States of america is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws even in the face of repeated mass killings. And later that day there was a mass shooting. Jason carroll begins our coverage tonight. Jason, what are police saying about this horrific attack . One student saying when he first heard a shot he didnt believe what he was hearing until he heard more then he said everyone started running, leaving everything behind. When it was over, at least 10 were dead. 10 38 a. M. Local time, a 911 dispatcher receives a report of a shooting at Umpqua Community college. We have a report of one person shot. An active shooter. Reporter that initial report is terribly wrong. Soon police say ten people are killed with more wounded, though in statements later they give no hard numbers. Somebody is outside one of the doors shooting through the doors. Confirmed report that hes got a long gun. Reporter there are 17 buildings on campus. The shooter was confronted by police in building number 12, snyder hall, a building where science classes are normally held. Hes in a classroom. Its got to be the Southeast Side of of the hall. Reporter the dead and wounded are found in at least two classrooms. The suspect is down. We have multiple gunshot wounds. Reporter the shooter is among the dead, identified as a 20yearold male. Investigators say it appears he discussed his deadly intentions online just last night. Dispatch as many ambulances as possible to this incident. Oregons Governor Kate Brown appeared visibly shaken. To our First Responders, thank you for your work as this Community Reels from grief. Reporter aarerin, as you he the president say, these shootings have become too common so there are people tonight mourning their loved ones while investigators search for a motive. Erin . Jason, thank you very much. There are so many questions tonight. As you know, we are identifying this person as a 20yearold male, the shooter. We dont yet know the name. Cnn justice correspondent pamela brown is with me. Pam there are a lot of questions that we have tonight. We have a lot of questions, especially, erin, about the identity of this gunman and whether or not he was a student at this Community College. Law enforcement has yet to come out with that information but we know that the response was quick, that the fbi, atf, and other Law Enforcement immediately got the call after there was a shooting there on campus but because it was in a remote area it took a while for some of the federal officials to get there. We know that atf agents have arrived on the scene with the canine unit,explosives, ammunition, anything else that could help in this investigation and fbi officials are there as well. Presumably with evidence response teams, helping the locals with this investigation. Right now because we know the threat is mitigated, that this gunman is dead, this 20yearold male, investigators are going to pore through his social media, pore through anything he has on his cell phones, his laptops to see if there were any warning signs, if anything was missed, any preevent indicators missed along the way. Thats what weve seen in so many other cases, erin, that the gunman posted something online prior to the event and someone either didnt call Law Enforcement or didnt see it in time before something tragic happens like this. Pamela, thank you very much. Pamela continuing to work her sources. We have many reporters working this story trying to understand what this motive was, what exactly happened, this horrific attack. I want to go to luke rogers now, he was there when the shooting happened. Luke, im glad youre okay tonight. An absolutely horrible day for you. Something no doubt before today you could never have imagined. I know youre a student at umpqua. Are all of your friends accounted for tonight . Yes, they are. We were in class and all of us were when it happened we were all in class doing our projecs s is. We didnt know what was going down. We thought it was just a drill maybe because we didnt hear any alarms or anything at first. And im glad your friends are all right. I know that in the midst of this tragedy thats something good. In your opinion the building next door when this happened. At first you werent sure whats happening. When did you realize. At first we saw there was a drill so our instructors called us and i think when i first realized something was happening it was an automatic shop next to us and they came into our building and we had a lockdown. They locked us in there for ive been hearing 10 30 so we were in there until maybe 11 30, 12 00. Thats when i realized something was going on because we could hear people had on their phones Police Scanners and i could hear that going on and we were getting text message from other students sond s so thats when sobered us up and we realized something was happening. We heard numbers of how many people were injured and killed but we didnt know because we were locked in. And luke when you were finally able to leave the building when Police Escorted you you saw blood. What did you see . So when we exited the buildings officers made us put our hands on our head and go in a singlefile line. They took us out past the Science Building in front of and then over to snyder hall. As we passed snyder hall we could see the doors open and on the ground where the detectives had marks there were little drops of blood. We didnt see bodies or anything. There was just little markers and we saw the technicians doing what they were working on. We saw books on the ground. And, luke, did you do you know whether the shooter was a student . Do you know anything about him . I do not know about him personally. This is my first year at umpqua and all we heard is about the guns shooting and thats when we walked down. I dont know anything about him personally. We just i dont even know his name or anything like that. I think officers just had us over there and they busted us off the fairgrounds. Luke, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us on such a horrible day. Luke rogers as we said, a student at Umpqua Community college. I want to bring in our retired u. S. Marshal Arthur Roderick. Art, authorities finding four guns at the scene. Four guns and were going to learn a lot more about this as we go through this. The 20yearold man who did this shooting was to too young to buy a gun. He massacred at least 10 people, multiple classrooms. How could he have gotten so far and had so much time . Obviously we look at this individual and he looks into the same profile weve seen in columbine, the newtown shootings in the colorado theater shootings so its sad that we have to sit here and talk this again but this is the nature of the reality at this point in time. Fb l obviously he wasnt supposed to have any of those firearms at the age 206. Al 20. An ar15, thats a deadly weapon. It finds a 223 caliber round which is made to do one thing inflict heavy tissue damage to the human body. So i can imagine to that those are bloody scene there is and that those First Responders had to look at horrific things. And. You can only imagine, just heard the witness say in the aftermath the blood and books on the floor. There is so much we dont know. We dont know the name of the shooter. Why havent they released that . You know, some of the press releases that have been coming out from the Sheriffs Office have been sketchy. I think when you look at this community its a very Small Community so theyre not used to handling large incidents like this. I think theyre trying to hold back the name of the individual to get as much evidence as they can from his vehicle, from his apartment and to make sure theres no explosive devices that are set up so i think theyre just waiting a little while longer before they actually release the name. Interesting. Interesting reasoning there because its been much longer. Ordinarily we would have known the name hours before this. Art, thank you very much. Next, moments after the shots first started breaking out, Umpqua College was swarmed by police, more than 100 detectives now on the scene. We have new details about what investigators are learning. As i said, reporters fanning out at every angle of the story. Youll see them as we get more information, learn more about this shooter, who he is, what happened. Well be right back. Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. In study after study, advil is unsurpassed in pain relief. Nothing is proven stronger on aches and pains than advil. Not tylenol. Not aleve. Nothing. Relief doesnt get any better than this. Advil. Weve gotpeptocopter ummy town. When cold cuts give your belly thunder, pink relief is the first responder, so you can be a business boy wonder fix stomach trouble fast with pepto. Back with breaking news tonight, a mass shooting at a college in oregon. At least ten dead, others fighting for their lives tonight. We have more breaking details about the gunman at this moment. Deborah feyerick is with me. I know you literally just got off the phone and stepped on to our set. What have you learned . This is what we do know we know investigators are looking at an individual based on the license that they found at the scene and based on sorry, based on a cell phone that was there on the scene, based on a car that matched the cell phone, the owner of the cell phone matched the owner of the car. Thats how they identified him. Theyre tracking it back through a cell phone, essentially, the identity of the gunman. Based on the identity of that cell phone, they have located a man who had a very prolific online profile. This is somebody who was filing youtube videos, on snapchat, on o. K. Cupid. And to characterize this individual, he was somebody who was very frustrated with women, he was being rejected by women. Again this is the person they believe is the gunman and he was getting angrier and angrier. He was on chat rooms and even people in the chat rooms were rejecting him. So theyre looking at a series of conversations in which the individual is talking about doing a shooting and even from those online, some of them are criticizing him as a pathetic loser, others are giving him guidance as to how he should do it, how he should carry it out, what kind of wheapons he should use. Its very early in the investigation but based on a cell phone found near the gunman they have put together a profile of who they believe the man was. So thats what theyre looking at now. So this seems to be i mean, an incredible amount of information here. You have frustration with women on the one hand but then these conversations online if this is indeed the gunman. The question is there were people, other people then out there who were calling him a hero . Thought this helping him do this . And no one was aware . And this is whats so incredible about this online community, especially on these chat boards. Totally anonymous. Nobody knows whos talking to who. Yet these are people you think are your friends because youre chatting with them and so someone didnt think oh, let me help you, this others are criticizing him saying dont do this, this will give white men a bad name. So its one of those things where the online life becomes materializes in an individuals mind and it plays with them. So if its this individual hes seen on youtube basically saying i hate these people. I hate these people. They just keep criticizing me, why am i on these chat boards . So you can see him unravel and begin to spiral but again nobody has released an official name. But whether this is the person or not, if its not the person this is somebody Law Enforcement should question because the things that hes saying and the rants and tangents hes on are exceptionally disturbing and this is exactly the kind of ins dwrent as the police say if you see something, say something. Deb, thank you very money. Deb, literally as i said got off the phone, stepped on to our set, shell be back on her phone as we get more information. Trying to get the normal release of who this individual is. Up front now, our Law Enforcement analyst harry houck along with casey jordan. Harry, this online conversation that deb is talking about, if this does, indeed, involve the shooter, other people then were involved, were aware. I guess is the right word involved . Could people have been involved . Whats the culpability . Well, it depends. If he went on, lets say, this chat room with a different name like abc123 . How would they have known. Because of anonymity. But did he say im going this school to attack it at 10 30 in the morning, if that happened someone could have notified the police and have said theres a possible attack. People are faulking about it online. That could have been done and we dont know what the conversation was and how detailed he got. Now you know some of the people in the conversation calling him a pathetic loser, there were supporters and detractors but others even at one point suggested what weapons to use. How common are conversations like this out there . In the deep web theyre more common than you think because there are places that normal people dont usually go. But doesnt the fbi go there . Its an ocean, erin. They cant possibly navigate all the conversations going in the deep web. And we know how to keep diving, if you will, into chat rooms until they find other likewinded twisted people. It takes a loot for someone to sit up and go you know, i think i might call the fbi. These arent the kind of people who are call the fbi tips line. Theyre the kind of people who will sarcastically say o. K. , bro, ill be watching the news. Where in the northwest . Can you give us a clue . He goes there because he gets the validation and is made to feel less twisted and less abnormal than he is. Harry, on that point, obviously deb is reporting he could have had significant issues with women, there were issues of rejection, one report said one of the conversations was this is the only time ill ever be in the news, im so insignificant. There you go. That seems to fit a profile that we have seen in way too many of these cases. Exactly. And because what happens is when they commit these shootings or other people commit the shootings they see the press, the way we go out there. Well be talking about this for days and that might in a way drive them do Something Like that because they know now ill become infamous. I was rejected by one woman but im a hero, everybody is talking about me everyday now, even though hes dead. Thats an issue. Casey, what about this rejection by women angle to it. . If he is indeed the author of these postings, he references the Santa Barbara shooting by elliott roger. People remember recently was a young man posted a manifesto. His youtube postings were they were so exaggerated you thought they were a joke but they were very sincere. He felt like the women were to blame for all of his failures and when people start scapegoating and have an exaggerated sense of blaming everyone else for their problems and failures it can actually just decompensation is too soft a word. It gets blown out of proportion and when they get reinforcement because theyre online with other people who go yeah, you should do something about that, thats where they get inspired as harry says. And as we try to find out more on motive in terms of do we have any sense i dont know how far this goes to the reporting here but whether he was an actual student, why he chose this location, why he chose those classrooms, do we know that information at this point . And thats a very interesting point because it does not even appear he has a connection right now to oregon and so he comes from a different state and, again, were being a little were hedging a little bit because its so new. I know youre working on the reporting. But in other words he may not have been from oregon. We cant identify anybody but it appears something was going on. The person that investigators are telling me they believe it is was in Seattle Washington and made his way to oregon but hes from the midwest. So how this trip happened is something theyre looking at very, very closely. But investigators are sure this is the person theyre looking at. While i was on set with you just now i took a call and said is there any question . And they said no, this is the person investigators are looking at. This is the person theyre looking at his profiles and youtube and texts and all of that. So you also have to remember because of these chat boards, theres a huge Anonymous Community and theyre all talking to each other and theyre all claiming to be different people and so thats what investigators are looking at. They have to peel back the onion and figure out who is at the center of this. And people are theres it was so cruel some of the things that i was reading about the criticisms they had of this individual was so cruel, i dont even know why somebody would want to be on these chat boards because theyre clearly not friends, theyre clearly not supporters and theyre simply egging him on to commit a criminal act even though one person did put up an fbi tips hotline which its unclear. One person actually did. They tried to do that, yeah. What would you make of what she just said, harry, which i find very significant. Youre saying not a student at this Community College, not from the state of oregon, from the midwest. Wheres the connection here . Of course well find out, but the fact is thats im flummoxed over that. The fact he came from the midwest. He has to have some kind of connection to that school somehow. It appears to me it has to be some kind of connection somewhere. We dont see it yet, its still early in the investigation. To come that far and then come to seattle and make his way down to the specific school for a specific reason, theres got to be some kind of connection somehow. And one of the leads investigators are looking sat whether he intended to meet somebody in seattle, whether that fell through and whether there was supposed to be another meeting. So its unclear because we dont know what women he was talking to. But if its this individual, as investigators are telling me it is, then he was clea