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Oakland school shooting suspect kills for revenge

03 April 2012 23:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The suspect in the shooting at a college in the U.S. city of Oakland which killed seven people may have opened fire because he was furious with a school administrator and some students, investigators said on Tuesday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

One Goh, 43, was identified by survivors and witnesses as the suspect in the mass shooting Monday morning at Oikos University in Oakland, a city in the state of California, which left seven people dead and three others wounded.

Goh, of Korean origin, was formally arrested Tuesday morning on counts of murder, attempted murder, carjacking and kidnapping, local newspaper Oakland Tribune reported.

Goh told investigators that one female administrator at the Christian university was the object of his fury, police said.

The suspect said that he came to the university with the intent of "locating an administrator," Oakland police chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday morning at a press conference.

Jordan would not identify the administrator, but confirmed that she was not among the victims.

The suspect also told investigators that he felt being teased by some former classmates particularly because of his poor English skills.

Police said that Goh shot most of the victims after entering the school, and even told victims to line up before shooting.

He then left the school by driving one victim’s car and was later detained at a supermarket several miles away.

Goh was enrolled in the university but left in November last year, and police said that he may have been expelled because of behavioral problems.

Monday’s rampage was among the worst mass killings in history in the San Francisco Bay Area and shocked the local community.

"This is a terrible tragedy. On behalf of the city we offer our deepest condolences to the victims and their families," Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said in a statement.

It was reported that the seven victims were mostly students except one employed as a secretary at the university. The six women and one man were in age from 20s to 40s, and were from different countries including Nigeria, Nepal and the Philippines.