US college shooting nightmare returns. 7 fell victim to a gunman opening fire at a Korean Christian College in Oakland California.
Los Angeles / NationalTurk – A gunman opened fire at a Korean Christian college in California on Monday, killing at least seven and wounding three after telling former classmates: ‘ Get in line and I’m going to kill you all.’
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Oakland Police reported the college shooting suspect, a 43-year-old Korean-American, surrendered at a Safeway grocery store several kilometres away from the college shooting scene at Oikos University, a private college in Oakland after the deadliest US school shooting in five years.
US college shooting gunman was named by police as One Goh, a former student at Oikos, which has links to the Korean-American Christian community. Oakland Police described the US college shooting man as both a Korean national and a naturalised US citizen from Korea. They said they believed he used a handgun and acted alone during the college shooting.
College shooting Oakland : Gunman one goh had one goal in mind : Bloodbath
Police did not immediately offer a motive for the college shooting rampage – which came just more than a month after a student gunman in Ohio opened fire in a high school cafeteria, killing three students. It was not immediately clear why One Goh One Goal had left the school where college shooting occurred.
‘ We haven’t interrogated the college shooting assailant yet, so we’re still trying to put those pieces of this college shooting together,” Oakland police chief Howard Jordan stated a news conference.
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Witnesses stated the college shooting gunman entered a reception area of the college at mid-morning and opened fire before walking into one of two classes in session and spraying the room with bullets.
Paul Singh, whose 19-year-old sister Devinder Kaur was shot in the arm during Monday’s college shooting rampage, stated after the college shooting that according to his sister, the man who did the latest US college shooting was a former student who showed up at class for the first time in four months.
US College shooting massacre : ‘ Get in line and i’m going to kill you ‘
‘ Get in line and I’m going to kill you all ‘ is what he said this morning, my sister told me. They thought he was joking at first,’ Singh stated with clenched teeth.
Tashi Wangchuk said his wife, 28-year-old Dechen Yangzom, was in the second classroom when she heard gunfire that initiated the brutal college shooting.
‘ Out of instinct, she locked the door and turned off the lights then the guy came and banged on the door and shot several rounds at the door and then he left,’ Wangchuk said.
‘ The police said what she did was heroic.’
Oakland police spokesman, Johnna Watson, reported after the newest US college shooting at least seven people had been riddled and three others wounded.
It was the deadliest outburst of gun violence at a US school shooting since a Virginia Tech student shot dead 32 people in a 2007 massacre on that campus before killing himself.
Images from local TV stations yesterday showed frightened students and staff running from the school, located in a light industrial area near Oakland International Airport, as police and SWAT teams carrying assault rifles surrounded the area, where the deadly college shooting occurred.
Hours later, two bodies remained on a grassy area outside the school, covered by yellow plastic sheeting.
Agents from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were on the scene, along with dozens of local police.
‘ No American mayor desires to have a college shooting in his state,’ Mayor of Oakland Jean Quan told at the – after college shooting – news conference. ‘ College shootings hurt the whole community.’
Angie Johnson, 52, talked to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper she was doing errands nearby when she saw a young Korean woman run from the Korean college with a bloodied right arm, crying ‘I’ve been shot, I’ve been shot.’
Johnson reported then that the wounded woman told her the College shooting shooter was a man in her class starting the college shooting by shooting one person at point-blank range before spraying the room with bullets then with blood.
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