Oregon mall gunman identified

Police said Jacob Tyler Roberts used a stolen rifle from someone he knew for the shooting Police have identified the gunman who killed two people and injured one during a shooting at a shopping mall near Portland, Oregon.

Jacob Tyler Roberts, 22, armed himself with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which jammed during the shooting.

Roberts, who used a stolen rifle and wore a mask, killed himself after firing randomly around the mall.

Clackamas police said they had no motive, and named the dead as Steve Forsyth, 44, and Cindy Ann Yuille, 54.

Mission of murder

The third victim, Kristina Shevchenko, remains in a serious condition at a Portland hospital.

"It really was a killing of total strangers, to my knowledge at this point and time. He was really trying to kill as many people as possible," Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts told ABC's Good Morning America.

The gunman apparently targeted "anyone who was in his line of sight", Sheriff Roberts told NBC's Today show.

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