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Oakland police announced Friday morning that they believe they have found the gun used in the shooting of ten Oikos university students and staffers on Monday in East Oakland. Seven of the shooting victims died. One Goh, a former nursing student at the school, was arrested in connection with the shooting shortly afterward. Goh was charged Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court with seven counts of murder with special circumstances and three counts of attempted murder as well as other…
Over 800 people gathered Tuesday night at Allen Temple Baptist Church in East Oakland to commemorate the seven killed in Monday’s shooting at Oikos University. The diversity of the victims, who included immigrants from Korea, Nigeria and Nepal, was mirrored in the crowd, which represented all facets of the community. During the two-hour vigil several clergy members from different denominations and religions offered support and prayers for the victims, their family, and friends. They were joined by a number of…
When Dale Sky Jones, the executive chancellor of Oaksterdam University, walked into the school’s building at 1600 Broadway on Monday afternoon shortly after a raid by federal agents, one of the first things she saw was an Oaksterdam University banner, she said, “torn down and crumpled on the floor.” “They tried to demoralize us,” Jones said, “but they didn’t.”
Shooting suspect One L. Goh, upset that he was expelled from the nursing program at Oikos University, returned to the school to kill seven people on Tuesday, according to police.
Police have indentified 43 year-old One L. Goh as the suspect in the shooting deaths of seven people today at Oikos University. Goh, a naturalized Korean citizen, initially fled the scene but turned himself in later at a Safeway in Alameda, where he was detained by Alameda police officers. Officer Johanna Watson, the Oakland Police Department spokesperson, said it was too early to speculate about a motive. “We have the suspect in our department, but investigators have not had the…
As of 2:45 pm on Monday, the Oakland Police Department has confirmed that a total of 10 people were injured, of whom 7 died, at a shooting on the Oikos University campus earlier this morning. The Oakland Police Department currently has one person in custody in connection to this incident, said OPD spokesperson Officer Johnna Watson. Police are referring to the man, whom Watson described as Asian and in his 40s, as a “person of interest” in the case. “We believe…
A discussion about Measure Y funds developed into a debate about Mayor Jean Quan’s “100 block” public safety plan at the Oakland City Council meeting Tuesday night.
In 2011, there were 103 reported homicides in Oakland. Most of the victims were young black males who were killed with firearms in East and West Oakland. This is a continuation of a pattern in Oakland that has been the case for years and is closely tied to the economic and social realities of young people living in the city’s poorest areas.
Howard Jordan, a longtime Oakland police officer, and former San Jose assistant fire chief Teresa Jordan, were officially named to the top posts in their departments at a ceremony at the city hall rotunda building on Thursday.