2012 Oikos University shooting

On April 2, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, California, United States.

[5] The shooting occurred at approximately 10:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, when a gunman opened fire with a Springfield Armory XD .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 the Oakland International Airport.

[7] Hours later, he surrendered to authorities at a Safeway supermarket in the nearby South Shore area of Alameda, about 5 miles (8 km) away from the scene of the shooting.

[14][15] 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.

"[19] Goh later moved from Virginia to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he took up residence in Castro Valley and Oakland.

[20] While a student at Oikos University, Goh had disciplinary problems, and was asked to leave the school a few months prior to the shooting.

He was also hospitalized, and began refusing to eat; three weeks after his arrest, county sheriffs reportedly considered the possibility of obtaining a court order to have him fed forcibly through a feeding tube.

According to Klaus' statements, that report concluded that Goh had had paranoid schizophrenia for up to a decade and a half, and that he lacked the ability to cooperate with his public defender due to his incomprehension of the criminal justice system.

[34] On that basis, Panetta ruled that Goh was unfit to stand trial, and ordered that he be confined to a mental institution for treatment, with further competency reviews to be held every ninety days.

Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley has not yet concluded whether she will seek the death penalty for Goh if and when he goes to trial.

[36] During a hearing on December 2, 2015, Goh expressed his wish for the death penalty, though the attorneys on both sides are unsure whether he feels genuine guilt or still has delusions.