Tag: Christopher Harper-Mercer

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 07:17 UTC

  Umpqua killer: interest in high-profile shootings, angry at not having a girlfriend and bitter at the world

  

  Christopher Harper-Mercer was withdrawn and quiet as he grew up in southern California, spending most of his time indoors at his mother’s apartment and deflecting neighbors when they asked him how he was doing, or why he always wore the same outfit of combat boots and green Army pants. But there was one subject that got him to open up: guns.