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		</div><p>The British-born gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon university killed himself in front of students after two police officers wounded him in a shoot-out, authorities say.</p>
<p>Two plainclothes detectives responding to the alert Umpqua Community College last Thursday heard a volley of gunfire and ran toward the shots, Douglas County District Attorney Rick Wesenberg said at a news conference.</p>
<p>The two officers, who were not wearing bulletproof vests, spotted Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, in a doorway of a building where he had just opened fire in a classroom. The gunman fired several rounds at the detectives, who returned fire, hitting him once in the right side, Mr Wesenberg said.</p>
<p>Harper-Mercer then went back into the classroom, walked to the front of the room and shot himself.</p>
<p>Nine others were wounded in the attack.</p>
<p>Harper-Mercer’s mother allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with a mild form of autism, but she didn’t seem to know he was potentially violent.</p>
<p>The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago. She and Harper-Mercer shared an apartment outside Roseburg.</p>
<p>Investigators have recovered 14 firearms, six found at the college and eight at the apartment.</p>
<p>In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son’s emotional troubles, but there are no hints of worry that he could become violent.</p>
<p>While living in California, Harper-Mercer graduated from a learning centre for students with learning disabilities and emotional problems. His parents divorced when he was a teenager and he lived with his mother.</p>
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