One Goh’s life was not easy, but nothing gave him reason to open fire on his previous Okland School. In this shooting he killed six students and a receptionist and wounded three others. This is one of the biggest school shootings since the Virginia Tech shooting that shook the nation years ago.
Little background has been released on this man but what is known about his past is not the pretties picture. He immigrated to the US and began to study at Oakland school, a college founded as a safe place where Korean immigrants could adjust to being in the US and find a new career. He lived by himself in the US and was not social with his neighbors and they knew very little about him. When asked what they knew about Goh, neighbors said he was always well shaven and well dressed but not talkative at all. He later began to attend the Oikos University.
It has been discovered that while living in Virginia, Goh racked up tens of thousands in liens and judgments. His brother, who was an Army sergent died in 2011 in a car crash, and in the same year, his mother died in South Korea. While at Oikos Goh began to express thoughts of violence and anger. People at his school were disrespectful to him, mocking his accent. Goh was dismissed from the college for voicing vicious plans. He began to plan his attack and weeks later he began his attack on the school. He went in looking for a certain administrator and upon not finding her, had the receptionist walk into a classroom, had the students line up and then began shooting. The police arrived before all of the students were killed but several lives were taken. Goh is expected to have his first court appearance on Wednesday.
I chose this article because I lived through the Tech shooting as a concerned friend and Virginian. I cannot even imagine what the Korean community and students of Okaland must be feeling, being new to the US and possibly not even speaking English. School shootings are always tragic and this one is no exception. This article was very well written, like most other articles in the Washington Post. It was a rough topic but I did enjoy the fluidity of the article and appreciated the amount of detail and information presented in it.
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