The Latest: Obama to visit Oregon shooting victims' families

Source: AP

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local):

4:10 p.m.

President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week's shooting at a community college.

Obama will visit Roseburg on Friday as he opens a four-day trip to the West Coast. No additional details about his visit were immediately available.

Obama has renewed his call for stricter gun laws following the shooting and has expressed exasperation at the frequency of mass shootings in the U.S.

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Student Mathew Downing, right, is comforted by an unidentified woman as they return to Umpqua Community College, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, in Roseburg, Ore. The campus reopened on a limited basis for faculty and students for the first time since armed suspect Chris Harper-Mercer killed multiple people and wounded several others on Thursday before taking his own life at Snyder Hall. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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