A man, who declined to give his name, holds his sons during a vigil in Roseburg, Oregon for ten people killed and seven others wounded in a shooting at a community college in the western US state of Oregon. AFP PHOTO
A man, who declined to give his name, holds his sons during a vigil in Roseburg, Oregon for ten people killed and seven others wounded in a shooting at a community college in the western US state of Oregon. AFP PHOTO

ROSEBURG, United States: An army veteran was hailed a hero for charging the gunman during a mass shooting at a college in Oregon, before being shot despite pleading that it was his son’s birthday.

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