Oakland college shooting: former nursing student arrested

Witness, Brian Snow, told a local television station that he had heard the
gunshots before an injured woman ran outside.

“A lady came out running and she had blood on her arm, but I didn’t know
how bad the wound was,”

“She was just trying to make sure everyone was safe and took off her jacket
and she had a big old hole in her arm.

“One of the people who was inside the building was saying there was a crazy
guy inside,” he added.

Tashi Balo, 38, a videographer, said he got a phonecall from his wife, a
nursing student at the college, asking him to call the police because the
university was under attack.She was whispering to avoid being noticed by the
gunman.

“I was shocked when I first got the call and of course worried and upset,”
he said. “My wife is fine now, but I was very scared earlier.”

Another witness, Angie Johnson, 52, was carrying out errands in a nearby
industrial complex when she saw a young woman run out of the university
crying: “I’ve been shot, I’ve been shot.”

The woman told Mrs Johnson that the gunman was a man in her nursing class who
stood up and shot one person at close range before spraying the room with
bullets.

Deborah Lee, 25, a student from China who is studying at Oikos, said she was
in an English class when she heard four or five pops that sounded like
firecrackers.

Her teacher left the room to find out what was happening, and she heard
someone shouting; “Someone has a gun,” before being told to flee the
building.

The gunman remained on the loose for nearly two hours before being arrested
after he reportedly walked into a Safeway store in the suburb of Alameda
five miles from the college and told staff he had carried out a shooting. Police
were called and he was detained in the parking lot of a shopping mall.

Witnesses said four bodies covered in tarpaulin had been removed from the
university, which has a student body largely of Korean descent.

Television footage showed wounded people being carried out of the university
building, and gurneys being taken in to collect more.

A police spokesman, Johnna Watson, confirmed that there were fatalities,
adding: “We do believe we have detained an individual responsible for
the shooting at the college,”

Students were ordered to leave the building in ones and twos over the space of
an hour as a police SWAT team took up positions before smashing their way in
through windows and doors using a sledgehammer.

Oikos offers classes with an emphasis for students of Korean descent. The
murders are the latest in a history of shootings at universities and schools
across America.

In April 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a Korean student, shot and killed 32 people at
Virginia Tech university, wounding 25 others. In February, three high school
pupils were killed in Chardon, north-eastern Ohio. A 16-year-old classmate,
TJ Lane, is awaiting trial charged with their murders.

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