2012 Oikos University shooting
shooting on April 2, 2012
On April 2, 2012, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed seven people and injured three others at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, United States. It is the deadliest mass killing in the city's history.
Incident
The shooting occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, when a gunman opened fire with a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun with four fully loaded 10-round magazines on the university's campus, located at the Airport Business park in East Oakland, near Oakland International Airport. The gunman stood up in a nursing classroom while class was in session, ordered classmates to line up against the wall, and fired at them. The shooter was reported to have said "Get in line ... I'm going to kill you all!" before opening fire, according to a witness. Six students and a receptionist were killed, and three others injured (six of the seven fatalities were women). The attacker continued to fire shots as he fled the campus, driving away in a car belonging to one of the victims. Police say that he used "most" of the 40 bullets that he started with.
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