Oregon Shooting Hero Chris Mintz Leaves Hospital
NBC News
October 8, 2015
"Oregon Shooting: 'Heroic' Army Vet leaves Hospital"
A victim of the deadly shooting at an Oregon college who has been hailed as a hero for trying to save other students during the rampage has been released from the hospital.
Chris Mintz, 30, left Mercy Medical Center in Roseberg, Oregon, on Wednesday night, a friend who asked not to be named told NBC News.
He was shot several times during a rampage by Christopher Harper-Mercer at Umpqua Community College on October 1.
Harper-Mercer, 26, killed nine during the rampage and then shot himself, according to police.
"He tried to protect some people," Mintz's aunt Sheila Brown told NBC News in the attack's aftermath.
"We were told he did heroic things."
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