‘He wasn’t going to stand and watch something horrific happen’: The hero Army veteran who was shot seven times as he ‘charged at Oregon college shooter’
Chris Mintz, 30, was taken to hospital following the college shooting
Started the day by wishing his son, six, ‘Happy Birthday’ on Facebook
He then headed to classes at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg
His cousin Derek Bourgeois told DailyMail.com he charged at the shooter
Bourgeois said he and Mintz joined the Army together after high school
By KHALEDA RAHMAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
2 October 2015
A heroic student charged at the Oregon college shooter and was shot seven times as he tried to save his classmates, his family said.
Army veteran Chris Mintz, 30, was taken to hospital following the massacre at Umpqua Community College on Thursday morning.
His cousin Derek Bourgeois told DailyMail.com that Mintz faced Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, who killed at least 10 people at the school in Roseburg.
‘I was told he went after the shooter,’ Bourgeois told DailyMail.com.
‘There was no way he was going to stand around and watch something this horrific happen.’
Bourgeois, who lives in North Carolina, said no vital organs were hit when Mintz was shot multiple times, but he is expected to recover after spending most of Thursday in surgery.
According to his family, both of his legs are broken and he will have to learn to walk again.
Mintz’s aunt Sheila Brown told NBC News that ‘he tried to protect some people’.
‘We were told he did heroic things to protect some people,’ she said.
‘He was on the wrestling team and and he’s done cage-fighting so it does not surprise me that he would act heroically.’
Mintz, originally from Randleman, North Carolina, served 10 yeras in the Army and had just recently started college, his aunt said. The family has set up a Go Fund Me page to help with his medical costs.
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