A gunman went on a shooting rampage at a small religious college in Oakland, California on Monday, killing seven people and injuring three. The school, Oikos University, caters to the Korean Christian community in California and the gunman was an American citizen of Korean descent.
Police did not release the names of the victims, but Oakland police chief Howard Jordan said the dead included Koreans, Nigerians and Nepalese and consisted of six women between 21 and 40 and one man. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said, most of the victims were Korean. Local Korean media there reported that one of the dead was 21-year-old Shim Hyun-joo.
Students and onlookers at Oikos University talk amongst themselves at the scene
of a multiple shooting at the school in Oakland, California on Monday. /Reuters
According to police, One Goh (43), who had attended nursing classes at the
college but was expelled, held a receptionist hostage at gunpoint at 10:33 a.m.
on Monday and searched for a female administrator at the school. Failing to find
the administrator, Goh entered a nursing classroom and made the students stand
along the wall and shot them with a .45-caliber pistol. The police chief in the
city said it was a "calculated, cold-blooded execution in the
classroom."
Goh fired more rounds outside of the classroom and had
already escaped in the car of one of the victims when police arrived at the
scene. Goh was later arrested at a nearby supermarket.
Although an exact
motive remains unclear, Goh was apparently enraged by his expulsion from the
college after failing to keep up with his school work and by teasing from fellow
students about his poor English.
Oikos University was founded in 2004 by
Korean-American pastor Kim Jong-in (61) and around half of its 100 students are
Korean.
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