Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts said about 10, 000 people were in the mall at the time.

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Swollen rivers in Clackamas County, near Portland, were still rising, sheriff's Deputy Nick Watt told CNN Thursday.

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The right to assemble peaceably, that right was denied shoppers in Clackamas, Oregon, and moviegoers in Aurora, Colorado.

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Roberts attended Milwaukie High School for three years but did not graduate, said Joe Krumm, the director of community relations for North Clackamas County School District.

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Her father switched from teaching middle-school Spanish to running a fish store in the Portland suburb of Clackamas, where her mother had a business producing couture dresses.

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"It was just as if these communities were ghost towns, and for the most part there was nothing left, " said Wilson, who works for the Clackamas County emergency management department.

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At the Clackamas Mall in Oregon last week, an active shooter murdered two people and then saw that a shopper, who had a handgun carry permit, had drawn a gun and was aiming at him.

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