Perpetrator
One L. Goh | |
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| Born | Su Nam Ko November 18, 1968 [10] |
| Died | (aged 50) |
| Nationality | Korean-American |
| Other names | One Goh Ko, One Ko Goh |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Former nursing student |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 고원일 [12] |
| Revised Romanization | Go Wonil |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ko Wŏnil |
| Birth name | |
| Hangul | 고수남 [12] |
| Revised Romanization | Go Sunam |
| McCune–Reischauer | Ko Sunam |
One L. Goh (born Su Nam Ko;Korean : 고원일;also One Goh Ko or One Ko Goh;November 18,1968 –March 20,2019),a 43-year-old former student at Oikos University,was identified as the shooter. He was residing in Oakland at the time of the attack. [13] [14] A native of South Korea,he followed his parents and two older brothers to the United States at a young age and was later naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2000. [15] [16] [17] When Goh arrived in the United States,he first resided in Springfield,a community in Fairfax County,Virginia,outside of Washington,D.C.,and then moved to Hayes,in rural Southeast Virginia,where he had minor traffic citations and debts. In February 2002,he legally changed his name to One Goh because he felt his birth name sounded "like a girl's name." [18]
Goh later moved from Virginia to the San Francisco Bay Area,where he took up residence in Castro Valley and Oakland. [19] His mother Oak-Chul Kim also lived in Oakland,while his brother Su-Wan Ko,a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army,and another brother Su-Kwon remained in Virginia. [19] [20] On March 8,2011,Su-Wan was killed in an automobile accident in Virginia while on assignment for the George C. Marshall Center. [20] [21] Later that year,his mother returned to Seoul,South Korea,where she died as well. [19] While a student at Oikos University,Goh had disciplinary problems,and was asked to leave the school a few months prior to the shooting. [19]
Howard Jordan,the chief of the Oakland Police Department,said that Goh was angry at the administration after being expelled from the university,as well as having his request for a pro-rated tuition fee reversal on his $6,000 payment denied by Ellen Cervellon,one of the school's administrators. [22] School officials later said he had not been expelled. [23] [24] Jordan said Goh went to Oikos with "the intent of locating [an] administrator",but when learning she was not there,he opened fire at random people. [25] Jordan said Goh "was also upset that students in the past,when he attended the school,mistreated him,disrespected him,and things of that nature." [25]
Goh died on March 20,2019,while in custody at California State Prison-Sacramento. The Sacramento County coroner's office investigated the cause of Goh's death. [26] As of April 9,2019 [update] ,the coroner did not release the results of its investigation. [27]
