College Gunman's Target Was 'Admin Worker'

A gunman who killed seven people and wounded three others at a Christian college in California was targeting a female administrator when he went to the building, police have said.

The sole suspect in Monday's shooting was arrested at a shopping centre about three miles away and was named by police as One Goh, 43.

Oakland police chief Howard Jordan said at a news conference that the gunman began randomly shooting people after learning the administrator was not there.

Goh is believed to be a resident of Oakland, about 10 miles outside San Francisco, and a former student at Oikos University , the scene of the shooting.

Goh, who is a South Korean national , has not been charged. Officers said they believed the attacker had acted alone.

He is said to be co-operating with police but not to be "particularly remorseful".

Mr Jordan told a news conference: "We've learned that the suspect was upset with the administration at the school.

"He was also upset that students in the past, when he attended the school, mistreated him, disrespected him, and things of that nature.

''He was having, we believe, some behavioural problems at the school and was asked to leave several months ago.

"We've learned that this was a very chaotic, calculated and determined gentleman that came there with a very specific intent to kill people, and that's what his motive was and that's what he carried out."

Police said they had not yet recovered the gun used but said ballistics indicated it was a semi-automatic handgun.

Witnesses told how the gunman, described by police as an Asian man wearing khaki clothing, entered the reception area of the college and opened fire before walking into a classroom and spraying the room with bullets.

Mr Jordan said the victims were six women and one man, aged between 21 and 40 and from Nepal, Nigeria, Korea and the Philippines.

All were students apart from his first victim who was a secretary.

Paul Singh, whose 19-year-old sister Devinder Kaur was shot in the arm, said the attacker was an ex-student who had turned up at class for the first time in four months.

"'Get in line and I'm going to kill you all,' is what he said this morning, my sister told me," Mr Singh said. "They thought he was joking at first."

Tashi Wangchuk said his wife, 28-year-old Dechen Yangzom, was in a classroom when she heard gunfire.

"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," Mr Wangchuk said.

"One of the people who was inside the building, she was saying there is a crazy guy inside," witness Brian Snow told KGO-TV.

"She did say someone got shot in the chest right next to her, before she got taken off in an ambulance."

Local media footage showed terrified students and staff running from the school as armed police surrounded the area and, later, bloodied victims on stretchers being loaded into ambulances.

The school's founder, Pastor Jong Kim, told the Oakland Tribune newspaper that he heard 30 rapid-fire gunshots in the building.

The gunman had been a nursing student, he said, but was no longer enrolled at the college, which has links to the Korean-American Christian community.

Teresa Garcia, correspondent for CBS news in the US, said there was "a very, very bloody scene inside" with 10 victims, including three who survived.

She told how Goh left the scene in a victim's car and drove to a shopping centre where he was spotted acting suspiciously by a security guard who asked him if he needed help.

"One Goh told him 'I've shot several people, I need to talk to police...' so in the end, he turned himself in," Garcia said.

The spree killing is the deadliest seen at a US college since a Virginia Tech student shot dead 32 people on the university's campus in 2007 before turning the gun on himself.

It comes a month after a student gunman in Ohio opened fire in a high school cafeteria, killing three students.