In response to the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on October 1, which took the lives of ten people including the shooter, President Barack Obama on October 2 ordered United States flags to be lowered to half-staff. Flags are to remain lowered until sunset Tuesday, October 6.

In a brief proclamation issued Friday, President Obama said it was “a mark of respect for the victims of gun violence” on Thursday that he was issuing the order.

Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy on Friday also today announced that, in accordance with President Obama’s proclamation, that all US and state flags in Connecticut will fly at half-staff beginning immediately until sunset on Tuesday, October 6, to honor the victims of the shooting in Roseburg, Oregon.

The governor’s office also noted that the lowering of flags in honor of the victims of the Oregon tragedy will this year coincide with Sunday's National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service, in honor of which flags would normally be lowered.