On October 1, 2015, 19-year-old Lucero Alcaraz was killed during the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Alcaraz had a full scholarship to study pediatric nursing and was remembered by her family as smart and full of potential. The attack occurred in Classroom 15 in Snyder Hall at about 10:38 a.m. PDT, when 26-year-old student Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer entered the room, fired a warning shot in the hallway, forced students to the center of the classroom and opened fire with two handguns, killing nine people and wounding eight others.

Responding officers engaged Harper-Mercer within minutes; he was wounded in a brief shootout and then died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the classroom. Investigators recovered multiple firearms and large quantities of ammunition at the scene and at his residence. The motive reported for the attack was Harper-Mercer’s stated feelings of revenge for perceived sexual and social rejection. Does anyone have memories of Lucero or information that could help preserve her story?