Police Name Suspect In Shooting Deaths At Oakland Christian College

Bay City News -- Oakland police have identified the suspect in this morning's mass  shooting at Oikos University as 43-year-old One L. Goh.

Goh, believed to be an Oakland resident and a Korean national,  allegedly shot 10 adults at the university, killing seven, police Chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference at police headquarters Monday evening.

"Today's unprecedented tragedy was shocking and senseless," Jordan said. 

Police arrived at the private Christian vocational school at 7850 Edgewater Drive after the first report was called in at 10:33 a.m. and  found "an extremely chaotic scene," Jordan said. 

Five shooting victims were pronounced dead at the scene while another two victims died at a hospital, according to police.

Three other victims who were injured in the shooting were taken to a hospital and are expected to survive, Jordan said.

Police believe Goh used a handgun, and a weapon was recovered at  the scene, Jordan said.

The suspect was located at a Safeway store at 2227 South Shore Center in Alameda, Alameda police said.

Police in that city said they received a report at 11:17 a.m. of a suspicious man sitting in the area wanting to talk to police. Officers arrived and spoke with the man, and determined that he had been involved in the shooting at Oikos University, Alameda police said.

Police are working to confirm that he acted alone.

Angie Johnson, 52, of San Leandro, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she was running errands near the school when a woman who had been wounded ran out and told her that the shooter was a man in her nursing class who stood up, shot one person in the chest then started spraying the room with bullets.

"She said he looked crazy all the time," Johnson told the Chronicle, recounting what the victim said, "But they never knew how far he would go."

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