Gunman kills 7 in US uni rampage
Ex-student held after opening
fire in class
3 April 2012
AT least seven people were killed
and three injured yesterday after a crazed gunman opened fire at a US
university. The shooter is said to have stood up in a class at the Christian
college and blasted one victim at point blank range before firing off about 30
shots.
Cops described him as Asian with
a heavy build and wearing khaki clothes.
He was caught at the car park of
a shopping centre where his relatives work about two hours after the attack,
which started at around 10.30am local time. One witness said he was cuffed and
taken away in a car.
Police later identified the
suspect as 43-year-old One L Goh. Pastor Jong Kim, who founded Oikos University
in Oakland, California, a decade ago, said the killer had been a nursing
student but was no longer enrolled.
Armed police, including SWAT
teams, surrounded the site as officers smashed doors with hammers and stormed
the building. Television images showed cops evacuating students.
Four bodies lay outside the
school covered by sheets while rescue workers removed at least four more on
stretchers.
One witness said last night:
"He stood up in the class and just started firing.
"He shot one guy in the
chest, shot another person, and just started firing like crazy." Local
resident Angie Johnson, 52, saw a young woman leaving the building with "a
hole in her arm the size of a coin", who was crying: "I've been
shot."
Ms Johnson said the woman told
her the killer was a man in her nursing class.
She added: "She said he
looked crazy all the time — but they never knew how far he would go."
Police spokeswoman Johnna Watson
last night said the situation remained "very tense". She added:
"We are interviewing witnesses to try to determine if this person is known
to them."
Stunned councillor Larry Reid
spoke of the community's grief, saying: "There are seven families that are
having to deal with this horrendous act."
Oikos is popular with Catholic
Korean students. Its courses include bible studies, but is not accredited by
the government.
Its website states:
"Students are given a Christian education based on solid Christian
doctrine.
"Our main goal is to foster
spiritual Christian leaders."
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