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Chris Mintz, veteran hailed as hero of Oregon college shooting, opens up

2015-10-17 23 Dailymotion

An Army veteran who ran from building to building to warn fellow college students that a gunman was loose on their Oregon campus has posted his story on Facebook, describing being shot by a man who acted "like he was playing a video game and showed no emotion."<br />Chris Mintz, who has been credited with helping to save other Umpqua Community College students, was shot five times and is recovering.<br />Nine of his classmates were killed during the Oct. 1 shooting rampage and nine more were injured.<br />The gunman, Chris Harper Mercer, killed himself as police closed in on him.<br />"The shots knocked me to the ground and felt like a truck hit me," Mintz, 30, wrote in a Facebook post dated Thursday.<br />"He shot me again while I was on the ground and hit my finger, and said, 'That's what you get for calling the cops.' "<br />Mintz wrote that he decided to tell his story on Facebook because "I'm not doing this for publicity and I don't want any media outlet to alter it in any way."

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