Officials Confirm 7 Dead, 20 Injured in Oregon School Shooting

Officials say seven to ten viftims have died and 20 are injured in a school shooting that occurred in Roseburg, Oregon on Thursday.

The shooting took place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg at about 10:38 a.m. on Thursday morning. Roseburg is located 180 miles south of Portland.

Local police have said that they responded to a call of a shooter on campus at 10:38 a.m. The shooter had reportedly begun firing in one school building before moving on to the college's science building, attacking at least two classrooms.

Douglas County Fire Marshall Ray Shoufler told CNN that the shooter is in custody. It remains unclear if the shooter is wounded or not.

"We arrived to find multiple patients in multiple classrooms. Law enforcement was on scene and had the shooter neutralized," Shoufler told CNN.

Dennis O'Neill, the executive director for the UCC Foundation, was on campus when the gunfire broke out. He told the News-Review that he could hear shots being fired as he attempted to lock the classroom door.

"We locked our door, and I went out to lock up the restrooms and could hear four shots from the front of campus," O'Neill told the News-Review.

The local Mercy Medical Center reported on Thursday afternoon that it had received nine patients wounded in the shooting, with more on the way.

According to the Associated Press, the White House has indicated that President Barack Obama has been briefed on the situation developing in Oregon.