In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Q: The gunman who killed nine people last week at an Oregon college shot himself in front of his classmates after being wounded by two hero cops. Also revealed on Wednesday was that Umpqua Community College shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, was discharged from the Army after attempting to commit suicide. Harper-Mercer was discharged after one month of basic training at Fort Jackson, in South Carolina, in 2008. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Army wouldn't disclose details of the 2008 suicide attempt but that it indicates Harper-Mercer was deeply troubled long before he opened fire on his classmates last Thursday.Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, shot himself in a classroom after being wounded by two hero cops who opened fireHarper-Mercer was discharged from the Army in 2008 for trying to commit suicideTodd Spingath was one of two officers to take down Oregon shooterHis partner and fellow vet, Joe Kaney, was identified earlier this weekThe pair have been hailed for preventing further potential devastationThey rushed into Umpqua Community College five minutes after alert 
 Question:At a Wednesday news conference, authorities said that two police officers in plainclothes were the first to confront Harper-_ after he began shooting at his morning writing class.

A: Mercer
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Q: Virginia is poised to execute a convicted serial killer who claims he's intellectually disabled using lethal injection drugs from Texas because the state's supply of another controversial drug will expire the day before the execution is supposed to take place. Unless Gov. Terry McAuliffe or the U.S. Supreme Court steps in this week, Alfredo Prieto will be executed Thursday - the first Virginia inmate to be receive the death penalty in nearly three years. The El Salvador native was already facing execution in California for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a Virginia jury sentenced him to death in 2010 for the 1988 killings Rachael Raver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III.Alfredo Prieto raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in CaliforniaHe also murdered a Virginia couple in 1988 and will be executed ThursdayPrieto claims he has a 'significant brain dysfunction' from a malnourished childhood in El Salvador but psychologists say he is brightThe state will use a lethal three-drug cocktail partially supplied by TexasVirginia has executed 110 people since 1976, the third highest state 
 Question:_ officials agreed to send him to Virginia on the rationale that it was more likely to carry out the execution.

A: California
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Q: Emma Bunton is heading into her forties, but she has no plans to slow down any time soon. The Spice Girl, who presents the breakfast show every morning with Jamie Theakston on Heart FM, already has two children with fiance Jade Jones, but hasn't ruled out having a third. Emma, 39, and Jade share their parenting skills equally - with one in charge of morning chores and the other looking after the kids when school ends. And the singer is coping so well with her busy schedule that she hasn't ruled out another baby in the next few years. Speaking to S magazine in the Sunday Express, she said: 'I absolutely love being a mummy. They just make me smile, they're the reason i go to work and all your priorities change - they are my everything.'Emma Bunton and Jade Jones have been together for 17 yearsThe couple share two children together, Beau, seven, and Tate, fourShe talks about turning 40 and whether she'd become a mother again 
 Question:She told the magazine: 'I get to work, _ does the morning with the boys, then I'm home in time for pick-up and after-school activities and the early evening, then when Jade's back from the studio he'll help me with the night-time.

A:
Jade Jones
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