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The Latest: Oregon gunman killed self after police shot him

Candida Miller, left, and Brandon Snyder leave flowers at a site of a growing memorial to victims of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo via Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard)
Candida Miller, left, and Brandon Snyder leave flowers at a site of a growing memorial to victims of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo via Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard)

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local):

10:20 a.m.

Authorities say the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college killed himself inside a classroom after two plainclothes officers shot and wounded him.

Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg said at a news conference Wednesday that the two detectives who were the first on scene heard a volley of gunfire and ran toward the shots at Umpqua Community College last Thursday.

They spotted 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer in the doorway of a building and he immediately fired at the officers, who weren’t wearing bulletproof vests.