Clifornia Attack Suspect One L. Goh Upset About Expulsion, Teasing
Goh used to live in Fairfax County
Updated: Tuesday, 03 Apr 2012, 5:31 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 03 Apr 2012, 5:31 PM EDT
By TERRY COLLINS Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. - A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday.
One L. Goh, 43, forced the secretary into a classroom at Oikos University in Oakland on Monday, told people to line up and, when some didn't cooperate, began his shooting spree, police Chief Howard Jordan said.
"It's very, very sad," Jordan said. "We have seven people who didn't deserve to die and three others wounded because someone who couldn't deal with the pressures of life."
Goh, a South Korea native who became a U.S. citizen, was expelled in January from the school for behavioral problems from the small private school of fewer than 100 students, Jordan said. The chief said Goh had anger management issues with other students.
Jordan said Goh appeared to have been planning the attack for several weeks.
Goh was upset with administrators and several students at the college, which an official said offered classes in Korean and English and was founded to help Korean immigrants adjust to a new country and find careers in nursing and ministry.
"They disrespected him, laughed at him," Jordan said. "They made fun of his lack of English speaking skills. It made him feel isolated compared to the other students."
Jordan said Goh tried to find a female administrator Monday and began shooting when he learned she wasn't there. The victims, who range in age from 21 to 40, were from various countries, including Nigeria, Nepal and the Philippines.
"It is very disturbing, especially given the magnitude of this incident," he said. "While he's being very cooperative with us, you expect some level of remorse for someone who just killed seven people that he really didn't even know."
Goh was being held without bail Tuesday after being booked on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and carjacking, according to sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson, who said the suspect likely would make his first court appearance Wednesday.
Police were still looking for the gun used, which Jordan described as a semiautomatic handgun that was purchased legally.
Goh has no criminal history, but he has debts and minor traffic citations in his former home state of Virginia and was evicted from one apartment complex.
His brother, a soldier on active duty, was killed in a car crash last year in Virginia, according to Stars and Stripes newspaper.
Soon after the shooting began Monday, heavily armed officers swarmed the school in a large industrial park near the Oakland airport. For a time, police believed the gunman could still be inside. But he wasn't.
Instead, officers said he apparently drove about three miles from campus before surrendering to officers inside a supermarket.
Police first received a 911 call at 10:33 a.m. reporting a woman on the ground bleeding. As more calls came in from the school, the first arriving officer found a victim suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound, he said.
More officers then arrived and formed a perimeter around the school on the belief that the suspect was still inside, he said.
Jordan said there were about 35 people in or near the building when gunfire broke out. Of the seven fatalities, five died at the scene and another two at the hospital.
The three surviving shooting victims were all released from Highland Hospital by Monday night, accor


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Well not a suprise as we have a lot of people in the D.C. area and are transient in nature

This concerns me as my next door neighbors are Korean. Nice, quiet people who keep to themselves but will smile and wave when greeted. Should they be taken out as a pre-emptive measure just to be sure?

Can't be too careful these days...
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One thing we learned for the episode of How I Met Your Mother when the gang went to Marshall's father's funeral is that Koreans always have umbrellas.

The first warning sign was him trying to be a male nurse.

Oakland shooting suspect changed name while living in Falls Church
Goh suspected of killing seven people in Oakland, Calif., shooting
by Gregg MacDonald, Staff Writer
Photo from Alameda County Sheriff’s Office One L. Goh
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20120406/NEWS/704069547/oakland-shooting-suspect-changed-name-while-living-in-falls-church&template=fairfaxTimes

A man charged in Monday’s shooting at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., was once a resident of Falls Church and still may have family in Centreville, according to public records.

One L. Goh, 43, once resided in Falls Church and changed his name in Fairfax County Circuit Court in 2002 from ‘Su Nam Ko’ because he felt it was too feminine, according to court documents.

“I do not like my current name because it sounds like a girl’s name,” he wrote on a Feb. 7, 2002, name change petition filed in Fairfax County Circuit Court.

Goh is suspected of killing seven people in the Oakland shooting, the largest school shooting since the Virginia Tech massacre, perpetrated by Seung-Hui Cho, who also lived in Northern Virginia and was of Korean descent.

Goh was charged Wednesday with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder that make him eligible for the death penalty in California, prosecutors say.

California law enforcement reported that Goh was upset about not being fully refunded for some nursing classes he had enrolled in but later dropped.

Alameda (Cal.) County police said he entered the school’s administrative offices looking for a certain administrator who no longer worked there, then in frustration went to a classroom, pulled out a .45 semiautomatic pistol, ordering students to line up against the wall, and then proceeded to fire.

Prosecutors said he reloaded at least once, and that he brought at least four loaded magazines with him.
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The Korean community needs to deal with the stigma associated with getting psychological help. This guy was not right in the head and someone should have had him committed.

This is not the first nutjob that has come out of that community.

Sounds like a Capitalist thing to me.

Damuri Ajashi Wrote:
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> The Korean community needs to deal with the stigma
> associated with getting psychological help. This
> guy was not right in the head and someone should
> have had him committed.
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> This is not the first nutjob that has come out of
> that community.


There are nutjobs of every persuasion. Yes, I am aware of the cultural implications of not only the Korean population, but others who come to the United States, including God forbid white people of European descent, that are wary of getting help. Sadly, for whatever reason, there is a stigma with psychological help, and it hurts those whom truly need it.

Yet, its not just isolated to people with parents from Korea, or who are from there.