The gunman who opened fire at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday, asked students if they were Christian and then shot them.
Christians from across the country have responded to the event.
The father of Anastasia Boylan, 18, who was shot by Chris Harper Mercer and survived by "playing dead", shared his daughter's account of the shooting:
"He was able to stand there and start asking people one by one what their religion was.
"'Are you a Christian?' he would ask them, and 'if you are a Christian then stand up' and they would stand up. He'd say 'because you are a Christian you're going to see God in about one second' and then he shot and killed them. And he kept going down the line doing this to people."
A candlelit prayer vigil was held in Roseburg on Thursday evening, hours after the shooting occurred.
"In our sorrow, we will remember and honour those lost here today," Gov. Kate Brown told the crowd. "And in this way, they will live forever in our hearts."
The college's interim president, Rita Cavin, asked people to share their love, not their anger, with those affected.
"Anger caused this, and we can't have anger around us right this minute."
One woman in the crowd said she thought the shooter and his family should be included in the prayers:
"I don't know the grief I would feel if it were my child who did this," said Barbara Contreras, a mother of six. "They're going to feel such guilt. They lost their child tonight, too."
A local church, New Life Christian Center, hosted an urgent prayer meeting on Thursday evening and remained open throughout the evening offering grief counselling with pastors from across the area.
