'Lucky one' spared by gunman tells of massacre

A student singled out by Oregon college gunman Christopher Harper-Mercer as the “lucky one” to survive and deliver a package to police has spoken for the first time about the massacre.

In a written statement, Mathew Downing, 18, said his ears were already ringing from previous shots fired when Harper-Mercer entered the Umpqua Community College classroom on October 1 and he thought what was happening “couldn’t be real”.