Umpqua Community College student Kendra Gordon told Neil Cavuto on "Your World" she was in the classroom next door to where today's deadly campus shooting occurred. 
 
 "I was sitting in class when we had first heard the shot," Gordon said. "And we didn't think it was a gunshot, we thought it was a firecracker. And then we heard another one." 
 
 "And so, one of the students in my class, she went out and checked it. She got shot twice, one in the arm, and in the stomach. And she came back and told us to lock the door, shut the lights off," Gordon said. "And we sat there for 20 minutes waiting for police to show up. It felt like forever." 
 
 Gordon said that she waited in her class with 20 to 25 students until they heard police voices outside the room. 
 
 "I've definitely had better days, that's for sure," Gordon said. "I'm in a lot better position than many of the other families at UCC." 
 
 Watch more above and stay with Fox News Insider for updates on this tragic story. 
 
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 Obama Speaks Out on Oregon Shooting: 'This Is Something We Should Politicize' ||||| A gunman opened fire at 10:38 Thursday morning, killing 10 people, while wounding 9 others at Umpqua Community College. Three of the wounded are listed in critical condition, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said during a 4:45 p.m. press conference today. 
 
 The identities of the shooter and the victims were unavailable at press time. Ten were transported to Mercy Medial Center, according to Mercy Chief Medical Officer Jason Gray, and one of those died. Three patients were taken to a Springfield hospital, most for neurological surgery. Four were operated on at Mercy. All those treated at Mercy are expected to survive their injuries. Three remained in the hospital Friday morning. Of those, one was expected to be released today, one was in stable condition and one was in critical condition. As many as 10 victims were dead and the alleged shooter was reportedly killed. 
 
 [Relief fund established in wake of UCC shooting.] 
 
 Kortney Moore, 18, from Rogue River, was in her Writing 115 class in Snyder Hall when one shot came through a window. She saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter was inside at that point, and he told people to get on the ground. The shooter was asking people to stand up and state their religion and then started firing away, Moore said. Moore was lying there with people who had been shot. 
 
 There are unconfirmed reports that the shooter had either been shot or had shot himself. An official confirmed that the shooter had been “neutralized.” 
 
 [The latest from mass shooting at Umpqua Community College.] 
 
 Brady Winder, 23, of Portland, said he was in the room next door when he heard a loud thud that didn’t sound like a gunshot. He then heard a percussion of gunshots and the students all fled out the front door. 
 
 They left “like ants, people screaming, “Get out!” Winder said. 
 
 He saw a girl swim across the creek while fleeing. 
 
 Hannah Miles was in a class room next door to the shooting in Snyder Hall. Miles said they heard a sound next door that sounded like a yardstick slapping on a chalkboard. Then they heard the noise again. A teacher went to see if everything was all right, at which point it went off repeatedly and someone said everybody get out now. They got out as quickly as possible. They left everything behind. 
 
 [Gun control debated in wake of tragedy.] 
 
 According to scanner reports, the suspect was down and multiple ambulances were on scene. Police cleared the science building. 
 
 The scene was pure chaos. 
 
 Jared Norman, a nursing student, said he heard shots and then everyone was running. He was locked down in the cafeteria with 50 other students. His voice shook as he described the scene. They didn’t know what was going on, and they were terrified. 
 
 [Police investigate potential apartment of UCC shooter.] 
 
 Shortly before noon, UCC Foundation Executive Director Dennis O’Neill said, “We locked our door and I went out to lock up the rest rooms and could hear four shots from the front of campus. We have heard there are casualties but know nothing more at this stage.” 
 
 An automated phone call went out to parents at Roseburg School District, referencing the shooting and claiming the school was safe. 
 
 Sometime after noon, students’ cell phones were confiscated, then students were marched out one building at a time, hands up, patted down and lined up to be evacuated on buses. 
 
 [Tweets and photos from candlelight vigil for UCC victims.] 
 
 About 200 people were waiting at the Douglas County Fairgrounds for students, who were being ferried there in buses. Red Cross grief counselors were available at the fairgrounds. 
 
 Camas Valley teacher Christian Bringhurst said his daughter Justine was on UCC campus at time of shooting. She was safely evacuated to the fairgrounds. 
 
 “It’s awful. The uncertainty of what is going on is tough to deal with. We have a dozen (Camas Valley) kids going to school out there. Trying to find out who is there and make sure everybody is OK. Our hearts going out to the victims,” Bringhurst said. 
 
 The FBI’s Portland Division is responding to the incident. Agents and specialty personnel are responding from the FBI offices in Medford, Eugene, Salem and Portland. 
 
 U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield, issued a statement following the incident. 
 
 “Today’s shooting in Roseburg is a heartbreaking tragedy, and my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Roseburg’s first responders for their work in responding to the event. Once we know more about what happened today, I plan to work with my colleagues in Congress to find ways to prevent tragedies such as these,” DeFazio said. 
 
 Initial information from breaking news. 
 
 10:38 a.m. Police and emergency crews are at Umpqua Community College after a reported gunman has shot upwards of 20 people on campus. Scanner reports indicated the suspect is down. Multiple ambulances are on scene. Early reports indicate at least 15 people are dead. Students are reporting on social media that they are trapped inside classrooms. 
 
 11:20 a.m. Police are clearing the science building at this time. 
 
 11:28 a.m. Photographer just returned from Mercy Medical Center where he witnessed multiple ambulances bringing in patients. 
 
 11:34 a.m. Reporter at UCC describes the scene as “pure chaos.” 
 
 11:39 a.m. Jared Norman, a nursing student at UCC, said he heard shots and then everyone was running. He is locked down in the cafeteria with 50 other students right now. They’ve heard there is a shooting, but they don’t know what’s going on. And they’re scared. 
 
 11:42 a.m. Automated phone call went out to parents at Roseburg School District, referencing UCC shooting and saying all schools are safe. 
 
 11:49 a.m. “We locked our door and I went out to lock up the rest rooms and could hear four shots from the front of campus,” said UCC Foundation Executive Director Dennis O’Neill. “We have heard there are casualties but know nothing more at this stage.” 
 
 11:53 a.m. Oregon State Police are reporting via CNN that 10 people are dead and that the alleged shooter is dead. 
 
 11:57 a.m. Students and staff are gathered on the front lawn, waiting to be loaded onto a bus. 
 
 12:06 p.m. Kathleen Nickel, a spokesperson for Mercy Medical Center, said six patients have been brought to Mercy Medical Center and they are expecting two more. 
 
 12:40 p.m. Reporter Aaron Yost said two buses have brought students from UCC to the Douglas County Fairgrounds. Red Cross counselors are on scene to provide grief counseling. 
 
 12:57 p.m. Statement from Peter DeFazio on today’s shooting. “Today’s shooting in Roseburg is a heartbreaking tragedy, and my thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Roseburg’s first responders for their work in responding to the event. Once we know more about what happened today, I plan to work with my colleagues in Congress to find ways to prevent tragedies such as these.” 
 
 1 p.m. Christian Bringhurst said his daughter Justine is fine after she was on campus at the time of shooting. 
 
 “We (Camas Valley) have a dozen kids going to school out there,” Bringhurst said. “Trying to find out who is there and make sure everybody is OK. Our hearts going out to the victims.” 
 
 1:05 p.m. KVAL is reporting that the shooter is among the dead. That is unconfirmed. 
 
 1:13 p.m. Oregon Attorney General is reporting that 13 people are dead, up to 20 are injured including the shooter. 
 
 (Check back as we continue to update this story real time.) 
 
 Here is a Storify of social media related to the shooting: ||||| ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside a classroom at a rural Oregon community college Thursday, killing at least nine people before dying in a shootout with police, authorities said. One survivor said he demanded his victims state their religion before he started shooting. 
 
 A woman is comforted as friends and family wait for students at the local fairgrounds after a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ryan Kang) (Associated Press) 
 
 Students, staff and faculty are evacuated from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, after a deadly shooting. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT (Associated Press) 
 
 President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, about the shooting at the community college in Oregon. The shooting... (Associated Press) 
 
 Hannah Miles, center, is reunited with her sister Hailey Miles, left, and father Gary Miles, right, after a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ryan... (Associated Press) 
 
 A bullet casing is marked at the scene of a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT (Associated Press) 
 
 Authorities respond to a report of a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (Michael Sullivan /The News-Review via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT (Associated Press) 
 
 Police search students outside Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, following a deadly shooting at the college. (Mike Sullivan/Roseburg News-Review via AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 The attack shattered the first week of classes at Umpqua Community College in the small timber town of Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. 
 
 The killer was identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, according to a government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and provided the name on condition of anonymity. Authorities shed no light on his motive and said they were investigating. 
 
 Hannah Miles, a 19-year-old freshman, was in her writing class when her teacher got a call from security saying the school was in lockdown. She heard gunshots from a neighboring classroom. 
 
 Huddled together in the locked classroom, the students and teacher heard a footsteps outside and a man's voice call out to them, "Come on out, come on out," Miles said. They remained quiet and didn't open the door. 
 
 Police soon arrived, Miles said, and after students were convinced that it was indeed officers, they opened the door. 
 
 "It was like a huge burden had been lifted," she said. "A huge sigh of relief that we were going to be OK." 
 
 Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said at least two officers acted heroically in the shootout, but it was not clear if the gunman was killed by authorities or whether he took his own life. 
 
 At a news conference, a visibly angry Hanlin said he would not name the shooter. 
 
 "I will not name the shooter. I will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act," he said. 
 
 Mercer had been living at an apartment complex in nearby Winchester. Yellow police tape surrounded the building Thursday night. 
 
 A neighbor, Bronte Hart, said Mercer would "sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light." 
 
 Hart said a woman she believed to be Mercer's mother also lived upstairs and was "crying her eyes out" Thursday. 
 
 Sarah Cobb, 17, was in a writing class when gunfire erupted in the next room. She heard a shot, but thought a book had fallen. Then a teacher said they needed to get out, and the class ran out the door as she heard two more shots. 
 
 "I was freaking out. I didn't know what to think, what to do," she said. 
 
 Distressed parents rushed to the county fairgrounds, where students were being taken by bus to reunite with families. 
 
 Jessica Chandler was at the fairgrounds desperately seeking information about her 18-year-old daughter, Rebecka Carnes. 
 
 "I don't know where she is. I don't know if she's wounded. I have no idea where she's at," Chandler said. 
 
 Carnes' best friend told Chandler that her daughter had been flown by helicopter to a hospital, but she had not been able to find her at area medical centers. 
 
 The sheriff said 10 people were dead and seven wounded. An FBI spokeswoman said the gunman was included in that number. Earlier, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said 13 people had been killed. It was unclear what led to the discrepancy. 
 
 "It's been a terrible day," a grim-faced Hanlin said. "Certainly this is a huge shock to our community." 
 
 Hours after the attack, a frustrated President Barack Obama spoke to reporters at the White House, saying the U.S. is becoming numb to mass shootings and that the shooters have "sickness" in their minds. 
 
 Repeating his support for tighter gun-control measures, the president said thoughts and prayers are no longer enough in such situations because they do nothing to stop similar attacks from happening a few weeks or months later. He challenged voters wanting to confront the problem to vote for elected officials who will act. 
 
 Police began receiving calls about a campus shooting at 10:38 a.m. The school has a single unarmed security guard. 
 
 Kortney Moore, 18, said she was in a writing class when a shot came through the window and hit the teacher in the head. 
 
 The gunman then entered the Snyder Hall classroom and told people to get on the floor, she told the Roseburg News-Review newspaper. He told people to stand up and state their religion before opening fire. 
 
 Next door, students heard a loud thud and then a volley of gunfire, Brady Winder, 23, told the newspaper. 
 
 Students scrambled "like ants, people screaming, 'Get out!'" Winder said. He said one woman swam across a creek to get away. 
 
 The gunfire sparked panic as students ran for safety and police and ambulances rushed to the scene. 
 
 Lorie Andrews, who lives across the street from the campus, heard what sounded like fireworks and then saw police cruisers streaming in. She spoke with students as they left. 
 
 "One girl came out wrapped in a blanket with blood on her," she said. 
 
 Some students were in tears. Police lined them up in a parking lot with their hands over their heads and searched them. 
 
 Roseburg is no stranger to school gun violence. A freshman at the local high school shot and wounded a fellow student in 2006. 
 
 The sheriff has been vocal in opposing state and federal gun-control legislation. In 2013, Hanlin sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden after the shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school, declaring that he and his deputies would refuse to enforce new gun-control restrictions "offending the constitutional rights of my citizens." 
 
 Before the Roseburg shooting, a posting on the message-board site 4chan included a photo of a crudely drawn frog used regularly in Internet memes with a gun and warned other users not to go to school Thursday in the Northwest. The messages that followed spoke of mass shootings, with some egging on and even offering tips to the original poster. It was unclear if the messages were tied to the shooting because of the largely anonymous nature of the site. 
 
 Roseburg is in Douglas County, a politically conservative region west of the Cascade Range where people like to hunt and fish and pursue other outdoor activities. Many of the students in local schools go on to attend the college of 3,000 students. 
 
 Former UCC President Joe Olson, who retired in June after four years, said the school had no formal security staff, just one officer on a shift. 
 
 One of the biggest debates on campus last year was whether to post armed security officers on campus to respond to a shooting. 
 
 "I suspect this is going to start a discussion across the country about how community colleges prepare themselves for events like this," he said. 
 
 There were no immediate plans to upgrade security on the campus in light of the shooting, Cavin said. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Steven Dubois in Portland, Oregon; Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz, California; Gene Johnson and Donna Blankinship in Seattle; and Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report. Brian Melley contributed writing from Los Angeles.
– Horrific stories are trickling out from inside Thursday's mass shooting at an Oregon community college: Student Kendra Gordon tells Fox News she was in a classroom next to on where the gunman was shooting. "I was sitting in class when we had first heard the shot. And we didn't think it was a gunshot, we thought it was a firecracker. And then we heard another one," she said. "And so, one of the students in my class, she went out and checked it. She got shot twice, one in the arm, and in the stomach. And she came back and told us to lock the door, shut the lights off. And we sat there for 20 minutes waiting for police to show up. It felt like forever." Gordon said she's not sure how the student who was shot is doing now, Reuters reports. Student Kortney Moore says a bullet came through the window of her writing class in Snyder Hall; she saw her teacher shot in the head. The shooter came inside the room and told people to get on the ground, she tells the local News-Review. She says he then asked people to stand up and say their religion before he started firing. Tweets from @KP_KaylaMarie before she protected her Twitter feed: "Omg there’s someone shooting on campus." "Students are running everywhere. Holy God." And then, later: "Hi guys. I’m ok. Physically. We’re being bused off campus." Multiple witnesses tell the local Register-Guard that only one classroom, a writing and speech class in Snyder Hall, was targeted. Click for more on the shooter and President Obama's response.