GANGTOK, 03 April: Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38, of Sikkim was among the seven people killed in Monday's shooting rampage at Oikos University in East Oakland, USA. Media reports coming out from Oakland inform that Tshering Rinzing lived alone in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood and was studying nursing at Oikos University. He worked nights cleaning terminals at the city’s airport and also worked in restaurants to pay his way through.
He was reportedly shot down when the crazed gunman stole his car outside the college on Monday morning. The rest of the six victims are all women students except a lone staffer, it is learnt.
The shooting rampage suspect, One Goh, who has since been taken into custody has reportedly confessed to the killings and told investigators he was “angry at school administrators and students, saying they teased him and were not treating him respectfully,” Police Chief, Oakland, Howard Jordan, has been quoted as saying.
“We don’t believe that any of the victims were the ones that teased him,” he has expressly calrified.
Seven people died, and three more were wounded in the Monday morning shooting at the small Christian university.
According to eyewitnesses, the gunman entered the reception area of the Oikos University and opened fire before walking into one of the two classes in session, spraying the room with bullets. Tshering Rinzing, it may be recalled, was killed later when the gunman stole his car while fleeing from the scene.
All the victims were recent immigrants. While Tshering Rinzing hailed from India, the rest were from Korea, Nigeria, Nepal, the Philippines and one was a Tibetan woman, Sonam Choeden, 33, employed in the Department of Education of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile in Dharamsala. She was on a two-year unpaid leave.
A memorial service for the slain is planned for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Allen Temple Baptist Church, 8501 International Blvd. in East Oakland.
