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THIS IS OUTRAGOUS! IF YOU DONT HAVE THE STOMACH, DONT BOTHER READING.

http://www.oregonlive.com/
KEYWORD: Erik Ayala

MAY THOSE GIRLS REST IN PEACE.
IF YOU ASK ME, THEY SHOULD PUT ON THE REPOSRT OF PROBLEM A PERSON MIGHT HAVE CRIMINAL, MENTAL OR OTHER WISE IN THE COMPUTURES OF LEGAL GUN DEALERSHIPS. EVEN IF THE PERSON IS FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY, THE INFORMATION SHOULD BE SENT OUT ALONG WITH THEM. THEY SHOULDN'T BE RELYING ON GREEN CARD OR BILLS OR PASSPORTS! MAYBE I NEED TO STUDY THIS MORE. . .

I REMEBER BEING IN HIGH SCHOOL AND HAVING STUDENTS DIE, ONE GIRL IN MY CLASS HAD HER SISTER TAKEN, I THINK FROM AN ILLNESS. ANOTHER FROM A DRUG OVER DOSE OR ASTABING. THERE WERE MORE BUT THOSE TWO I REMEBER CLEARLLY. WE, AS A SCHOOL HELD A MEMORIAL FOR THEM.

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Nine people, most of them teens, were shot about 10:30 p.m. when 24-year-old Erik Ayala of Milwaukie opened fire on a group of people outside The Zone, an underage nightclub in downtown Portland.

Two died and seven were injured. Ayala, who shot himself afterward, died Tuesday of his wound. Police have yet to announce a motive for the shooting. family and friends are "in shock and still just horrified" about Saturday's shooting.

ABOUT THE SHOOTER:
Erik Ayala a "student of concern" in Keizer
by Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian Tuesday January 27, 2009, 9:30 PM
ERIK S. AYALAInvestigators say the 24-year-old gunman who shot nine people and then took his own life downtown Saturday night displayed troublesome behavior in high school, had attempted suicide in the past and was treated for depression at least once.

"This was somebody who had a history of emotional issues, and unfortunately decided to take others along with him,"Ayala came into the store on Jan. 6 and 7, before purchasing the Italian-manufactured EAA Witness 9 mm pistol for about $350 on Jan. 9. During Ayala's visit, Kellim dealt directly with him, describing him as laid back and calm.

THE HERO:
Retracing his steps
McCarrel said the only way to begin to understand the moments of madness would be to follow the path he took. He slid off the stool and led the way into the DJ booth, which looks out onto the dance floor. He closed his eyes and remembered.

"Pop, pop, pop," he finally said. "I'll never forget it."

He stepped through the curtain and into the lobby. He pushed open the club's front door and stood in the frigid night air.

"To my left was a girl on her stomach," he said. "To my right, I saw a girl on the ground. She'd been shot. Someone was screaming they couldn't feel their legs. There was blood everywhere.

"I looked to my left again and saw Chris doing mouth-to-mouth on this girl." Loya, who used to work at The Zone, had run from his job at The Thirsty Lion.

McCarrel paused his story to walk a few paces and stare at the sidewalk where so many lives had been altered in a matter of minutes.

"I asked Chris if I could take over," McCarrel said. "He told me yes, and I got to work."

McCarrel, who lives in Molalla, explained that he'd worked in a feed store there. The owner, who was on the town's fire board, had years ago paid for McCarrel to take a CPR class.

"I tried to stay calm," he said. "There was a guy who said he was a volunteer firefighter giving the girl CPR. I started doing mouth-to-mouth."

Dordea, meanwhile, was down the block. He'd walked to a convenience store for batteries and was on his way back when he heard the shots.

Dordea, who provides club security, radioed to his front-door crew to get all the kids inside and lock the door. He had begun running when he saw a man slowly turn and face him.

"That's when I saw this guy with a gun," he said. "We just locked eyes with each other. We just stared at each other. Then he shot himself and dropped. He just hit the sidewalk with all this blood."

Dordea shook his head.

"Man," he said, "this wasn't something I was prepared for."

"I won't be the same"

McCarrel, a few feet from the club's front door, was doing everything he could to save the girl he later learned was Ashley Lauren Wilks, a 16-year-old Clackamas High School sophomore.

"We couldn't feel a pulse," he said, referring to the man doing CPR. "But her eyes were open. I could see she'd been shot in the chest.

"All around me, people were screaming," he said. "All I focused on was breathing for her."

McCarrel worked for several minutes.

"I heard this dying breath," he said. "I told her to hang on. Just hang on ..."

He caught himself.

VICTIMS WHO DIED
Her full name was Martha Paz De Noboa, but everyone knew her as "Tika," the proud Peruvian exchange student who loved to dance and had never frolicked in snow until last month's big storm.

A junior at Columbia High School in White Salmon, Wash., she came to the United States to improve her English and sample North American culture while sharing her own.

De Noboa died Saturday night, eight days after her 17th birthday, one of nine people gunned down as they waited in line outside a popular underage nightclub in downtown Portland. Two of the victims died.

"It's just horrible," said Lori Stadler, whose family hosted De Noboa the past five weeks.

"Tika was a very vibrant person," Stadler said. "She loved music and dancing -- all the arts. She was very warm."

Saturday was the night of Columbia High's winter formal dance. But De Noboa chose to go downtown with fellow exchange students instead.

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Ashley Wilks: 'The most genuine person'
At an age when girls can be catty or gossip incessantly, 16-year-old Ashley Wilks was the consummate best friend.

"She never judged me," Maddie Mesplay, 16, a sophomore at Clackamas High School said of her closest friend. "She was the most genuine person."

Mesplay and others remembered Wilks, who died in Saturday's shooting in downtown Portland, as an inspiring and much-loved student who swam and played on the softball team.