[I have no new information about this other than what has already been covered in the media, but I thought it merited a place on PJMedia for people to weigh in with their thoughts and with any new leads that folks around the country may yet be unaware of.]
To recap:
A student at a small, very obscure Korean-American Christian/acupuncture college in an industrial part of Oakland, California went on a shooting rampage today and killed seven of his classmates and wounded three others.
Details are still emerging, but this is what we know so far:
7 dead, 3 injured, suspect caught in college shooting
Authorities are now confirming that seven people have been killed by a gunman at a private university in Oakland.
The gunman opened fire at Oikos University, a Christian school at 7850 Edgewater Road, today at about 10:30 a.m., said Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson. Ten people were hit by gunfire in an attack that set off a manhunt that ended about an hour later when the shooter turned himself in at an Alameda grocery store.
Terrified students ran from the college in the chaotic moments afterward, as police searched the building for the shooter and rescued students, who took cover and hid inside. SWAT units smashed glass windows with sledgehammers to reach the huddling students and faculty.
Watson said authorities detained a suspect, but would not disclose if the man attended the school. Authorities captured the suspect, described as an Asian male in his 40s, more than five miles away in an Alameda shopping mall an hour after the shooting.
Employees at the Safeway told The Chronicle the suspect walked to the customer service desk inside and said, “I just shot some people.”
Feel free to post links/updates/condolences in the comments section.
UPDATE:
The shooter’s name is One Goh Ko.
The only info I could dig up about him on the Web was the fact that his brother, Sgt. Su Wan Ko, died in a traffic accident while on assignment for the Army in Virginia almost exactly one year ago.
Dreadful.
Comes to mind to wonder, how often did this sort of thing happen back when I was young, in the Forties and Fifties?
I’ve heard it characterized as being extremely uncommon, almost unknown, before the UT-Austin clock tower shootings. Is that true?
Yes, I think Charles Whitman was the very first case of this type.
But that was more of a one-off unique event.
What really set off the modern epidemic of school shootings was Columbine. After Charles Whitman at Austin, there was no increase in school violence. After Columbine, there was.
Umm, didn’t “going postal” pre-date that? It was a real fad for awhile, one which mostly elicited jokes, not horror, meseems.
“Going postal” came much later. Without Googling the term, I want to say in the late Eighties or Nineties.
I believe he was saying that “going postal” pre-dated Columbine, which it did.
re: “going postal” pre-dating Columbine.
Ah ha. Yes. My error.
Thanks to James Felix
Thanks for the confirmation.
It’s almost like “copy-cat” psychology, but something inside says it’s not strictly tag-along, a deliberate “me too” decision on a shooter’s part.
It’s like this has become the normal way of resolving one’s … whatever.
It’s now S.O.P.
Sheesh!
Very sad, condolences to the families.
– day in Oaktown.
It’s an unfortunate coincidence that there’s an ad for USConcealedCarry.net right under this article.
Ouch.
unfortunate, how so? Perhaps in that the laws in California meant that the victims had zip, zero, nada chance in defending their lives? If that’s how you meant it, then yes, California deny those victims the right to defend their lives is very unfortunate.
I found it a little bit jarring in juxtaposition to a story where seven people appear to have been murdered by someone who, likely, was carrying a concealed weapon, before he hauled it out and started blasting.
Why was it jarring? It’s not like the killer had a permit. If anything this is an illustration that madmen intending to commit murder will do so no matter how many draconian gun control laws you pass.
There’s no guarantee that someone carrying concealed would have been able to stop this but at least they’d have had a chance. For that matter if the killer thought there was a chance his victims could fight back he wouldn’t have attempted it at all.
All those other people survived thanks to the safety of a gun-free zone.
People flipping out and whacking out a bunch of people for no good reason is nothing new, btw.
“The Bath School disaster is the name given to three bombings in Bath Township, Michigan, on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 elementary school children, two teachers, four other adults and the bomber himself; at least 58 people were injured. Most of the victims were children in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years of age [1]) attending the Bath Consolidated School. Their deaths constitute the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
It will continue to be seen in schools so long as schools remain gun free zones.
People who want to kill what better way to rack up a body count than in a place where you know you will face no armed resistance?
You see school shootings happen again and again. You see no gun range shooting sprees where everyone else is armed, not just the shooter.
RE: Terrorism alert: KGB total brainwashing technique
University officials provide grounds for potential terrorists who can commit similar crimes as this one in Oakland or the Virginia Tech massacre where on April 16, 2007, thirty two people were killed and twenty five others were wounded. This is because some part of Russian KGB (not Moscow or Putin) uses a brainwashing technique that requires only a few hours and leads to total mind control. After GULAG KGB brainwashing, nearly all people can kill themselves, their children, parents, best friends, and many others.
I repeat this total brainwashing technique requires only a few hours of intimacy. This can be easily achieved due to, for example, prevalent promiscuity and lack of public awareness about this method and KGB people who use such brainwashing. Note that such crimes are nearly impossible to prove, since the brainwashed people either kill themselves or, if they survive, will say only those things that were ordered them to say.
Artour Rakhimov, PhD
You need to loosen up that tinfoil hat, it seems to be cutting off the flow of blood to your brain.