Pastor's granddaughter shot in Ore. campus attack

By Diana Chandler - Posted at Baptist Press:

ROSEBURG, Ore. (BP) -- A 26-year-old man who killed nine and injured perhaps nine others at an Oregon community college reportedly targeted Christians in the attack, said a Southern Baptist pastor whose granddaughter was shot and survived.

"The shooter asked a question, 'Are you a Christian?' And if they said yes, he said, 'Good, because you're going to see God in a second,' and he shot them. My granddaughter hid and got a bullet through the leg," Howard A. Johnson, founding pastor of Bethany Bible Fellowship (SBC) in Roseburg, told Baptist Press. "That's pretty traumatic."

Johnson chose not to name his granddaughter to protect her privacy, and in deference to families whose children and relatives died in the massacre. Nine students and the shooter are confirmed dead. Between seven and nine were reportedly injured.

"She did not die, but she was shot," he said. "There are 10 others' parents and family [in the area] whose children were killed. My prayers and strength go to them because they won't be able to look their children in the eye and say what happened, as I was able to do with my granddaughter."

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