College killer gunman struck ‘in revenge for students’ teasing’
A COLLEGE student took his revenge for being teased about his poor English by lining classmates up against the wall and shooting them ‘execution style’, police said yesterday. Six women and one man were killed and three others wounded on Monday after 43-year-old One Goh went back to Oikos University, a small Christian college in Oakland, California, to find the woman administrator he blamed for his recent expulsion.
As America recoiled from its deadliest campus shooting for five years, police in Oakland revealed that Goh, a South Korean, had been planning his revenge attack on the college for several weeks. It began when he walked into the small college’s building on Monday morning, took a secretary hostage and went looking for the administrator, who he considered responsible for his expulsion several months ago for what police believe were ‘anger management’ problems.
Failing to find her, he ‘ went through the entire building systematically and randomly shooting victims’, said Oakland police chief Howard Jordan.
Forcing the secretary into his old classroom, the former nursing student ordered students up against the wall, telling them: ‘Get in line and I’m going to kill you all.’
Mr Jordan added: ‘ Not everyone was co-operative and that’s when he began shooting.’
Witnesses said Goh shot his victims one by one, hitting one point blank in the chest and another in the head.
The dead, aged between 21 and 40, included six students and the secretary. They came from as far afield as South Korea, Nepal and Nigeria.
Although the names of the victims have not been released officially, several identities emerged yesterday on social networking websites.
Among those killed are believed to have been Grace Eunhae Kim, 23, and Sonam Chodon, 33.
Mr Jordan said yesterday that the suspect – who was apprehended an hour after the massacre at a supermarket three miles away when he gave himself up to a security guard – ‘does not appear to be remorseful at all’.