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Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, killed at least 10 people when he opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday
In a hate-filled blog post, he expressed admiration for Vester Flanagan, who shot dead his former colleagues on live television
And on a dating site, his profile suggests he was just as lonely as Flanagan
Other profiles suggest he loved IRA terrorists and the Nazis
Former neighbor suggested he had joined the Army but didn't last long
He wrote that he was looking for love, but interested only in someone who 'shares my beliefs and is similar to me'
He described himself as 'shy at first, but warm up quickly', adding that he is an 'introvert' and 'not religious'

By Kieran Corcoran and Khaleda Rahman For Dailymail.com

Published: 22:14 EST, 1 October 2015 | Updated: 05:22 EST, 2 October 2015

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The Oregon college shooter praised the gunman who shot his former colleagues on live television because his actions made him famous, saying: 'People like him have nothing to live for.'

Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, killed at least 10 people when he opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg on Thursday morning before being shot dead mid-rampage by police.

According to his profile on a dating site, Harper-Mercer was looking for love but only interested in someone who 'shares my beliefs and is similar to me'.

Harper-Mercer was also a fan of the Irish Republican Army terror group, a Nazi enthusiast, and a vocal critic of the Black Lives Matter protesters, according to a slew of references and tributes in other accounts scattered across the internet.

And in a hate-filled blog post in August, he spoke of his admiration for Vester Flanagan, a disgruntled ex-journalist who killed two former colleagues during a live TV broadcast in Roanoke, Virginia.

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Oregon college shooter Chris Harper-Mercer, pictured right, praised Vester Flanagan, pictured left, saying his actions made him famous. He said: 'People like him have nothing to live for'

According to his profile on a dating site, Harper-Mercer was looking for love but only interested in someone who 'shares my beliefs and is similar to me'

On August 26, Flanagan shot WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward in the middle of a newscast.

Harper-Mercer said Flanagan's actions - and his subsequent posting of footage of the killings on social media - made him famous around the world.

'A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone,' he said. 'His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day.

'Seems the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight.'

On that same profile, using the name user named 'Lithium_Love', it also showed that just three days ago, Harper-Mercer uploaded a documentary on the file-sharing site called Surviving Sandy Hook, a BBC program about the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Describing himself as 'shy at first, but warm up quickly', Harper-Mercer (pictured) said he was looking for 'the yin to my yang'

And in his post about Flanagan, he also wrote: 'Anyone who knew him could have seen this coming.

'People like him have nothing left to live for, and the only thing left to do is lash out at a society that has abandoned them.'

'He posted the footage on Facebook and Twitter as well tweeting while he was running from the cops because he wanted the world to see his actions, much like many others post menial and trivial details of their life online and expect us to see it.

'Only his was at least a bit more interesting.'

He added: 'I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are.'

He also urged others to watch the clips, adding: 'It's a short video but good nonetheless.'

A bullet casing is marked at the scene of the massacre in Roseburg, Oregon

IRA sympathies: Harper-Mercer's Myspace profile is stuffed with tributes glorifying Irish terrorists

And a dating profile for Harper-Mercer suggests he was just as lonely and looking for love, much like Flanagan.

Harper-Mercer also uploaded a significant number of pornographic videos to a file-sharing website.

Describing himself as 'shy at first, but warm up quickly', he said he was looking for 'the yin to my yang' and 'someone who shares my beliefs, and is similar to me'.

He described his personality as a 'lover, conservative, professional, intellectual, introvert' but said he was 'not religious but spiritual'.

According to his profile, Harper-Mercer is 'mixed race' and a 'conservative Republican'.

Students, staff and faculty with their hands up are evacuated from Umpqua Community College in Roseburg

Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin addresses the media following the deadly shooting, confirming the gunman's death

Other traces of his presence on the internet seem to show that he idolized violent regimes like that of Nazi Germany and terror group the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

According to the New York Post, his dating screen name - Ironcross45 - was a reference to a Nazi military honor, and he is also thought to have written a glowing online review for a replica SS officer's cap.

He also apparently admired the IRA, who wrought chaos in Ireland and mainland Britain from the '70s to the late '90s, murdering British peacekeepers, assassinating politicians and a member of the royal family and planting bombs in London.

He posted several images on his Myspace profile glorifying masked IRA fighters, whom he described as 'looking cool defending their country', and also praised for being 'undefeated'.

As well as his obvious military enthusiasm, some former neighbors suggested he joined the U.S. Army and left soon after, though few details were available.

Remote: The rural college is located 180 miles south of Portland, Oregon, as identified in the map above

In August, Flanagan shot dead his former WDBJ colleagues Alison Parker (left) and Adam Ward (right)

In a separate blog post, Harper-Mercer is also said to have vented his fury at Black Lives Matter protesters, whom he blamed for the murder of two NYPD officers.

Harper-Mercer decried 'constant chants of anti-police rhetoric' and implied that they caused the murder of officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.

The two were shot from behind at point-blank range in December as they sat in their patrol cars in a residential area of Brooklyn.

Their deaths came at a time of soaring tension between police and activists, following a series of demonstrations in New York City. While many echoed his sentiments that the protests were unhelpful, few emphatically blamed the Black Lives Matter movements for the two deaths.

And a neighbor of Harper-Mercer, who lived in Winchester, Oregon, said he 'seemed really unfriendly'.

Bronte Hart lived below the 26-year-old in an apartment complex in the community of Winchester.

She says Mercer would 'sit by himself in the dark in the balcony with this little light'.

Other neighbors who lived near him previously in Torrance, California, described a strange man who was military-style clothing and pedalled around on a bicycle.

Speaking to the LA Times, residents said he wore camouflage pants while riding a red, beach cruiser-style pedal bike.

Derrick McClendon, 42, said that he was 'bashful and timid' and never seemed to spend time with friends. He added: 'I wouldn't have suspected him to be a troubled person.'