Oregon Shooting News: Pastor's Daughter Saved by Classmate's Blood
The Oregon mass shooting has become one tragedy that the whole world and many Americans mourned over, and just as family's of the nine victims start to live lives without their slain loved ones, Pastor Randy Scroggins has shared how the life of his daughter was saved during the shooting.
Scroggins is the senior pastor at New Beginnings Church of God, and during his preaching last Sunday, he shared how Treven Anspach's last breath and blood became the saving grace of his daughter Lacey's life.
The Oregon shooting took place at Umpqua Community College and 18-year-old Lacey Scroggins was among the students who were harassed by gunman Chris Harper Mercer. According to Lacey, the shooter asked one student to come up front where he was standing.
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After the student went up front, the gunman said "You're the lucky one. You're not going to die today." In just a split second, Lacey heard a gunshot and realized that Anspach was the one who got the bullet and was bleeding. "I felt Treven's body as it moved over mine," Lacey recalled to her father.
Anspach's body lay on top of Lacey and his blood started to cover her. Lacey said she played dead under her classmate's dead body when Mercer ordered her to get up.
Scroggins told George Thomas of the Christian Broadcasting Network that "The blood of that boy [Anspach] that covered my daughter saved her life."
During the interview, Scroggins said Lacey told him that she first heard a "pop" and immediately, the gunman entered the classroom, then fired a shot at the ceiling. Mercer demanded that the students all get down. Lacey looked in front right away to look for her teacher, but according to Scroggins, Lacey said "he was gone." She then turned to her left and watched how Mercer executed one of her classmates.
Lacey recounted how Mercer asked a student in an "orange shirt" to get up. The shooter went on to ask the student if he was a Christian and when the student said "Yes," Lacey said she heard a gunshot and the body of his classmate hitting the ground.
Lacey Scroggins is one of the survivors of the Roseburg, Oregon shooting on Thursday, Oct. 1, while nine were killed and nine others were left wounded.
