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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
Authorities release ‘manifesto’ from Roseburg mass shooting
in a classroom at the college in
Roseburg.
It includes a lengthy tran-
script from an interview with
the mother of shooter Chris-
topher Harper Mercer and an
explanation of his actions that
he wrote the day before the
shooting and left on a thumb
drive for police to fi nd.
Harper Mercer shot him-
self in the head after he was
wounded by police. Authori-
ties found nine guns stashed
in his backpack, in a college
restroom and at his home.
In the document, the
26-year-old community col-
lege student wrote that he is
part of a “demonic Hierar-
chy” and will become a demon
Killer left behind
an explanation
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — Author-
ities have released a detailed
report on a mass shooting at
Umpqua Community College
that includes a six-page, type-
written “manifesto” in which
the shooter critiqued the meth-
ods of other mass killers and
said he was a follower of the
occult.
The report came almost two
years after the Oct. 1, 2015,
shooting that left nine people
dead and nine others injured
when he dies and return “to
kill again and again” after pos-
sessing someone else.
He makes it clear that he
idolizes other mass shooters
and says he has studied their
methods but faults them for
not killing more people or for
not killing police offi cers.
He also paints himself as
a “loser,” with nothing to live
for and no successes in life.
“My whole life has been
one lonely enterprise. One loss
after another. And here I am,
26, with no friends, no job, no
girlfriend, a virgin,” he wrote.
“But for people like me
there is another world, a darker
world that welcomes us. For
people like us this (is) all that’s
left,” he wrote. “My success in
Hell is assured.”
The report details how
Harper Mercer singled out one
student early in the attack and
told him he would survive if he
passed an envelope to police
when they arrived.
It held the thumb drive con-
taining his so-called “mani-
festo,” copies of newspaper
articles about other high-pro-
fi le mass shooters and a report
on the killing of children at a
Sandy Hook, Connecticut, ele-
mentary school.
Harper Mercer’s mother,
Laurel Harper, told police in an
interview the day of the shoot-
ing that her son was “born
angry” and would have fi erce
Rummage sale for Astor Elementary library
The Daily Astorian
The Astor Parents Club
is holding a rummage sale
at Astor Elementary School
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Satur-
day and Sunday .
The club is accepting com-
munity donations. The pro-
ceeds from the event will go
to the school’s library, which
is in need of books. Due to
budget shortfalls at the state
level, the library services’
budget has been reduced .
The average age of library
TUESDAY
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Ruth Janet (Westfall) Wollenbecker
Astoria
June 11, 1937 — Aug. 7, 2017
Times of clouds and sun
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Newport
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Coos Bay
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Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
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Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 6:50 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................ 11:00 p.m.
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Normal month to date ....................... 0.60"
Year to date .................................... 50.27"
Normal year to date ........................ 38.70"
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Normal high/low ........................... 69°/51°
Record high ............................ 91° in 1922
Record low ............................. 38° in 1970
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Ruth Janet (Westfall) Wollenbecker, 80, ings, Oregon, they settled in Astoria. Ruth pur-
died in Astoria, Oregon, on Aug. 7, 2017. She sued her degree in nursing, and in 1984 she
had resided at St. Anne’s Adult Foster Care graduated from Clatsop Community College
Home for the past eight years, receiving com- as a registered nurse , later fi nishing her bach-
plete care for the debilitating disease
elor’s of science degree in nursing.
of Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a dis-
She worked at Ocean Beach Hos-
ease that robs a person completely of
pital in Ilwaco, Washington. A jack
their identity.
of all trades, she covered all areas of
Ruth was born June 11, 1937
the hospital as a nurse. She handled
in Toledo, Ohio. Her parents were
situations as they came at her, and
Eugene Marion Westfall and Vera
she never lacked a voice on what
Marguerite (Grace) Westfall. She
should be done for a patient. She
was the youngest of three siblings,
had compassion in geriatrics, joy in
Mary and Marjorie (her older sisters)
pediatrics, and savvy smarts in “t een
t heatrics,” as she would call it.
both of whom doted on their baby
Ruth
Ruth was a devout Catholic who
sister. She was a “Great Depression
Wollenbecker
loved St. Mary, Star of the Sea Par-
Era” baby, and the family had fallen
ish. She was a longtime member
on hard times. They didn’t have
much, but they had each other. A strong faith, of St. Dorothy’s Circle, the Altar Society,
a stout constitution and solace in the church the Catholic PTA and volunteered for var-
ious events such as the rummage sale, hol-
would shape Ruth later in life.
On Oct. 10, 1959 Walt and Ruth were mar- iday potluck dinners and pancake break-
ried in Toledo, Ohio, at Sacred Heart Catho- fasts. She would lend a hand anywhere, and
lic Church. They celebrated 56 years of mar- made her faith and service to others a priority.
riage prior to Walt’s death in 2015. Theirs was Ruth always felt at home in the church, and
a marriage of longevity and an unprecedented she wanted others to feel the same way. This
is how she will be remembered. She has, and
loyalty, truly best friends to the end.
Ruth attended Notre Dame Academy in will be missed.
She is survived by her son, John W. Wollen-
Toledo, Ohio, graduating in the top of her class
in 1955. Ruth was a studious girl, often seen becker, and his wife, Joan M. Wollenbecker;
with her nose in a book. Upon completion of her daughter, Mary J. Richard, and her hus-
high school, she landed a job at the local phone band, Brent N. Richard; six grandchildren; a
company, AT&T. When asked smugly, by a great-granddaughter; and a great-grandson.
fellow male employee, if she was one of the She has several nieces and nephews.
The funeral is scheduled for Sept. 16, 2017,
new switchboard operators, she smiled politely
replying, “No, I’m a draftsman!” She turned at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Church in Astoria.
sharply on her heel leaving the rather red-faced The rosary is at 11 a.m., Mass is at 11:30 a.m.,
young man behind her. The girl who liked to and there is a reception to follow immediately
study and read was a force to be reckoned with. after in the St. Mary, Star of the Sea School
In 1981, Ruth pulled up her hometown roots Auditorium.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
and headed out to the Pacifi c Northwest with
her husband and two children. After a short Alzheimer’s Association website at https://
stint in Smith River, California, and Brook- act.alz.org/donate
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DEATHS
Sept. 8, 2017
STILLICK, Roger Denis, 74, of Hammond,
died in Hillsboro. Ocean View Funeral & Cre-
mation Service of Astoria is in charge of the
arrangements.
Sept. 7, 2017
VILLA-SANCHEZ, Lorenza, 90, of Sea-
side, died in Portland. Hughes-Ransom Mortu-
ary & Crematory of Astoria/Seaside is in charge
of the arrangements.
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from California to Roseburg, a
small city about 180 miles south
of Portland, she said.
When she got an automated
phone message about an active
shooting on her son’s col-
lege campus, she said she fi rst
called a hospital to see if he
was there and then called the
jail to see if he’d been arrested.
When Harper could not
fi nd him, she checked his room
to see if his guns were missing
but could not tell because his
room was so messy.
At one point, offi cers asked
if she needed anything.
She replied, “I think I need
my son back. I need to under-
stand, really why he did this. I
don’t. I’m guessing.”
OBITUARIES
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Call 503-791-5953 to
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TONIGHT
tantrums as a young child that
required her to pin him in a
“bear hug.”
As a young child, he
opened the door of a car while
his mother was driving on a
freeway and tried to jump out,
she said. He was hospitalized
and eventually placed on psy-
chiatric medications, but he
stopped taking the drugs when
he turned 18, she said.
He pointed a gun in his
mother’s face after getting
kicked out of U.S. Army boot
camp when he was 19 or 20,
she said, and watched videos
of killings on a computer in his
room.
Harper Mercer seemed less
volatile after they moved in 2013
HEADACHES,
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TMJ/TMD
Tuesday, Sept. 12
VILLA-SANCHEZ, Lorenza — Visitation
from 1 to 8 p.m., with a Rosary Vigil Service at
7 p.m., Hughes-Ransom Mortuary Chapel, 220
N. Holladay Drive, Seaside. To leave online
condolences, go to www.hughes-ransom.com
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
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Board, 6 p.m., 34583 U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Cannon Beach Rural Fire Department Board, 6
p.m., Fire-Rescue Main Station, 188 Sunset Ave.
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
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