ROSEBURG, Ore. — President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week’s shooting at a community college.
Obama will visit Roseburg on Friday as he opens a four-day trip to the West Coast. No additional details about his visit were immediately available.
Obama has renewed his call for stricter gun laws following the shooting and has expressed exasperation at the frequency of mass shootings in the U.S.
Nine people were killed when a 26-year-old opened fire in a classroom at Umpqua Community College before killing himself in a shootout with police. Another nine people were wounded.
Some faculty, staff and students have been bringing flowers to a makeshift memorial as they return to the campus for the first time since the shooting.
An Oregon hospital reports no change in the conditions of three of the most seriously wounded survivors of a deadly mass shooting at a community college last week.
PeaceHealth Medical Center in Springfield said Monday that one patient remains in critical condition and the other two are in fair condition. All are expected to survive, but one woman is expected to have permanent neurological damage.
The three are women ranging in age from 18 to 34. They were among the most seriously wounded in the attack. They were airlifted to the hospital about 70 miles north of Roseburg.
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