Oikos University shooting: Seven dead after ex-student launches school massacre in California

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Oikos University shooting: Seven dead after ex-student launches school massacre in California

April 3rd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Reports say seven people were shot dead by ‘crazed gunman’
Suspect named as One L. Goh, 43, a former nursing student at the school
‘Re-appeared after several months’ but reason for absence is unclear
Shooter arrested in parking lot after ‘confessing to mall security guard’

By
Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:

14:44 EST, 2 April 2012

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UPDATED:

20:11 EST, 2 April 2012

Police surrounded a Christian university in search of a gunman who reportedly opened fire on Monday morning and killed seven people.

The suspect was caught in the parking lot of a shopping centre mall miles away from the Korean Christian school in Oakland, California.

The shooter, named by police as 43-year-old One L. Goh, apparently stood up in the middle of a nursing class at Oikos University, ordered classmates to line up against the wall and opened fire.

Nightmare: Oakland Police cover the bodies of victims of the shooting massacre at Oikos University

Sudden: Students and administrators had no idea what was going on when they started hearing gunshots on Monday morning

A bystander saw a woman ran out of the building saying that her right arm had been shot.

The
victim said that the shooter – a former student – was in her nursing class when he stood up
in the middle of class and shot another student point blank in the chest
before spraying the room with bullets.

The bystander, Angie Johnson, stayed with the woman until she received medical attention.

‘She said he looked crazy all the time but they never knew how far he would go,’ Ms Johnson said the victim told her.

Police spokesman Cynthia Perkins said seven people were dead. She did not release any other details about the victims.

Five people were believed to have been killed at the scene, while two of the five wounded later died at hospital.

Responders: ATF and SWAT teams responded to the shooting Monday morning where a reported five people were killed by a Korean gunman thought to be in his 40s

Responders:
ATF and SWAT teams responded to the shooting Monday morning where a
reported seven people were killed by a Korean gunman thought to be in
his 40s

Investigation: Police stake out the private Christian college in eastern Oakland

One student, 19-year-old Dawinder Kaur, told her brother she was in her nursing class when a former student who had been absent from the class for months told them all to line up against the wall.

After he revealed he had a gun the students started to run away, and Ms Kaur said she was shot in the arm when she tried to help her friend.

‘She told me that a guy went crazy and she got shot,’ her brother Paul Singh told the Oakland Tribune.

‘She was running, she was crying, she was bleeding. It was wrong.’

The suspect was detained at a Safeway supermarket about three miles from the university, about an hour after the shooting.

Grief: Timothy Yi, pastor at Hayward Korean Baptist Church, waits for news outside Oikos University

Mourners: Students talk among themselves at the scene of the deadly shooting on Monday

Location: The shooting took place at Oikos University

A security guard at the supermarket approached the man because he was acting suspiciously, KGO-TV reported. The man told the guard that he needed to talk to police because he shot people, and the guard called authorities.

Lisa Resler said she was buying fruit at Safeway with her 4-year-old daughter when she saw the man she later learned was the suspect walk toward the store exit.

‘He was just in the store looking like somebody who was going to pick a deli sandwich up or something,’ she said.

When she left the store, she said, she saw him standing on the sidewalk next to two police cars. She said she saw an officer kick his legs apart and pat him down for weapons but said they didn’t appear to find anything.

The officers then placed him in handcuffs.

‘He didn’t look like he had a sign of relief on him. He didn’t look like he had much of any emotion on his face,’ she said. ‘From what I could see he was completely cooperative with police. He wasn’t saying a word.’

Television
news footage showed officers surrounding the building in search of the
suspect, described as a Korean man in his 40s with a heavy build and
wearing khaki clothing.

At 12.13pm local time, the Oakland police department Tweeted that the suspect was in custody.

‘Possible suspect in custody. No imminent public safety threat appears to exist in immediate area,’ the tweet said.

The footage also showed wounded people being carried out of the building, and more gurneys were being brought in.

Four people were taken by ambulance to the emergency room while others were treated on the scene.

Morning: The shooting took place at approximately 10.33am and the suspect was in custody less than an hour and a half later

Death toll: At least five fatalities have been reported, and one witness described the scene where the gunman stood up in the middle of nursing class to a fellow student

Death toll: At least 7 fatalities have been reported, and one witness described the scene where the gunman stood up in the middle of nursing class to a fellow student point blank before spraying the room with bullets

Securing the scene: Initial reports said that the suspect was on the loose, and he was eventually found in a shopping center miles away from the Korean school

Founder and head of school Pastor Jong Kim said that the shooter had been a nursing student at Oikos but no longer is.

Mr Kim would not say if the man had been expelled or dropped out of the nursing programme.

He guessed that there were about 30 or so gunshots and said that he stayed in his office during the shooting.

Myung Soon Ma, the school’s secretary, said she could not provide any details about what happened at the small private school, which serves the Korean community with courses from theology to Asian medicine.

‘I feel really sad, so I cannot talk right now,’ she said, speaking from her home.

School: The shooting took place at Oikos University which aims to teach 'emerging leaders' in Christian education

School: The shooting took place at Oikos University which teaches ’emerging leaders’ in Christian education

Safety: The shooting took place at a Korean Christian university and at least four people were taken to the emergency room by ambulance while others were treated on scene

Deborah
Lee, who was in an English language class, said she heard five to six
gunshots at first. ‘The teacher said, “Run”, and we run,’ she said.

‘I was OK, because I know God protects me. I’m not afraid of him.’

AMERICA’S DEADLIEST SCHOOL MASSACRES

The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. Mentally ill student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before shooting himself in a campus rampage.

Another notorious killing was that at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, when 10 students as young as 15 as well as two members of staff were shot by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at the Denver school.

More recently, graduate student Steven Kazmierczak killed five at Northern Illinois University, his alma mater, on February 14, 2008, then turned the gun on himself.

The 2006 shooting at the Amish West Nickel Mines School attracted national attention after relatives of the five young girls killed by Charles Roberts publicly forgave the killer and sent condolences to his family.

An earlier example of a deadly campus massacre came in 1966, when student and former Marine Charles Whitman killed 16 at the University of Texas at Austin, mostly by shooting from a 28th-floor balcony.

Another bystander saw a woman running away from the scene.

‘One of the people who was inside the building, she was saying there is a crazy guy inside,’ witness Brian Snow told KGO-TV.

‘She did say someone got shot in the chest right next to her before she got taken off in an ambulance.’

One man heard the shootings and saw one of the victims running from the scene.

‘I just heard more gunshots. A lady
came out running and she had blood on her arm, but I didn’t know how bad
the wound was,’ said Brian Snow, who was at a credit union near the
school the at the time of the shooting.

‘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,’ he told KGO Radio.

According to its website, Oikos University offers studies in theology, music,
nursing and Asian medicine with the hopes of educating ’emerging
Christian leaders’.

The
school’s website says it ‘was established specifically to serve the
community of Northern California in general and San Francisco and
Oakland areas in particular’.

California political figures expressed their condolences at the horrific events.

Governor Jerry Brown said: ‘The tragic loss of life at Oikos University today is shocking and sad.

‘Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families and friends and the entire community affected by this senseless act of violence.’

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer added: ‘I am praying for a full and speedy recovery for all those injured in today’s shooting.’

And Jean Quan, Mayor of Oakland, called the killing a ‘terrible tragedy’, but praised police for their response to the incident.

Captured: After the suspect fled he was reportedly picked up by police in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center

Captured: After the suspect fled he was picked up by police in the parking lot of a nearby shopping center

OIKOS UNIVERSITY: THE SCHOOL AT THE HEART OF THE SHOOTING

Oikos is an independent Korean school that offers undergraduate courses in biblical studies, ministry, nursing and music, among other degrees.

Though it has been open for 10 years, it is not listed on the Department of Education’s list of accredited schools.

The school’s website says that it is registered with the Bureau for Private Post-secondary Education.

It has classes for an Associate degree in Nursing, doctorate degree in ministry, Bachelors degrees in biblical studies and music, and masters degrees in divinity, music, and Asian medicine.

The school ‘was established specifically to serve the community of Northern California in general and San Francisco and Oakland areas in particular’.

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You can buy enough weapons in the U.S to supply a small army,all you need is a drivers license.
The right to bear arms was written 400 years ago, move on,restrict guns, cut down on deaths.

– Howard Michael Hare, Canada, 03/4/2012 01:54

Don’t you just love how you get red-arrowed for stating the obvious – that there’s a ridiculous amount of gun violence in the USA? Truth hurts, I suppose.

– DrMallard, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 03/4/2012 01:27

This is incredibly sad. Condolences to the victims’ families.

– Kate, Los Angeles, 03/4/2012 01:21

Dem Koreans is deadly.

– Roger C., Gary, IN, 03/4/2012 01:15

Of course you get red arrowed for opposing gun rights. Yes, guns dont kill, people do. But if it was a knife, a lot of people would have survived. Just because you are responsible with guns doesnt mean you always will. Very few people buy because they want to kill. They always buy to protect themselves, but many a times the brain loses it and you do things you aint aware of. But hey, lets bury the victims and pretend this didnt happen. It serves someone right anyway. For me, this is sad and I wish we could ban guns for good.

– Lawrence, Fargo, US, 03/4/2012 00:49

crazy! no words to say…

– cd, switzerland, 03/4/2012 00:40

Just a daily occurrence in the land of the gun crazy nut jobs,…more gun deaths tomorrow folks, now move along.

– Fireball XL5, Lostinspace, 03/4/2012 00:38

Those Wacky Christian fundamentalists!

– resident, somewhere in America, 03/4/2012 00:28

I wonder whether this college was designated as a “gun-free zone”? Given that California has some of the strictest civilian disarmament laws of any state in America, probably so. Criminals know their victims will be unarmed in such cases. Yet another reason to allow concealed carry.

– John, USA, 03/4/2012 00:16

Here we go again.

– lisa, usa, 02/4/2012 23:42

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