Father of Student Wounded in Oregon Shooting Offers Chilling Details On How Christians Were Targeted

The father of a student wounded in the Oregon community college shooting described in horrifying detail Thursday evening how the gunman specifically targeted Christians.

Anastasia Boylan, who was shot in the back, offered the disturbing details to her father and brother before undergoing spinal surgery.

"He shot the professor, point blank, one shot, killed him — took him right out of it," Boylan's father, Stacy, told CNN. "And then, this man, had enough time, I don't know how much time elapsed before he was able to stand there and start asking people one by one what their religion was. 'Are you a Christian?' he would ask them. And if you're a Christian, stand up."

"And they would stand up and he said, 'Good, because you're a Christian, you're going to see God in just about one second,'" he continued, relaying his daughter's account. "And then he shot and killed them."

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The account offered by the father corroborates other reports which indicate the gunman specifically went after Christians.

“The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were christian,” tweeted Bodhi Looney, who said her grandmother was in the room as the shooting unfolded. “If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.”

Another student, 18-year-old Kortney Moore, relayed a similar account, telling the News Review that the shooter asked individuals to stand up and state their religion before he opened fire.

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