Police say they're responding to reports of seven people dead in a shooting at a Christian medical school in east Oakland. The shooting happened Monday morning at Oikos University.
Police Chief Howard Jordan said One L. Goh is in custody after he surrendered about an hour after the shooting at Oikos University, which also wounded three. Jordan said police have recovered the weapon they believe he used during the rampage.
“It’s going to take us a few days to put the pieces together,” Jordan said. “We do not have a motive.”
Soon after the shooting, heavily armed officers swarmed the school in a large industrial park and, for at least an hour, believed the gunman could still be inside.
Art Richards said he was driving by the university when he spotted a woman hiding in the bushes and pulled over. When he approached her, she said, “I’m shot” and showed him her arm.
“She had a piece of her arm hanging out,” Richards said.
As police arrived, Richards said he heard 10 gunshots coming from inside the building. The victim told him that she saw the gunman shoot one person point-blank in the chest and one in the head.
Tashi Wangchuk, whose wife attended the school and witnessed the shooting, said police told him the gunman first shot a woman at the front desk, then continued shooting randomly in classrooms.
Wangchuk said his wife, Dechen Wangzom, was in her vocational nursing class when she heard gunshots. She locked the door and turned off the lights.
The gunman “banged on the door several times and started shooting outside and left,” he said. Wangchuk said no one was hurt inside his wife’s classroom, but the gunman shot out the glass in the door.
The private school serves the Korean community with courses from theology to Asian medicine. Pastor Jong Kim, who founded the school about 10 years ago, said he did not know if the shooter was expelled or dropped out.
Dawinder Kaur told her family that the gunman was a student in her nursing class who had been absent for months before returning Monday, the Oakland Tribune reported. He entered the classroom and ordered students to line up against the wall. When he showed his gun, students began running and he opened fire, her family said.
“She told me that a guy went crazy and she got shot,” brother Paul Singh said. “She was running. She was crying, she was bleeding, it was wrong.”
The suspect was detained at a supermarket about five kilometres from the university. A security guard 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.
“He didn’t look like he had much of any emotion on his face,” said Lisa Resler, who was buying fruit at Safeway.
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