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One Goh is seen in this handout booking photo from the Alameda County Sheriffs Department released to Reuters April 3.
One Goh, the man charged with killing seven people at the Oikos University Christian college in Oakland, California, has said he is “deeply sorry” for the families of his victims, in an interview from jail.
“Families are so angry with me,” he told CBS San Francisco at the Santa Rita Jail, Calif. “(But) if I tell them sorry, it doesn’t bring anybody back.”
Goh, 43, a native of South Korea and former student at the school, has been charged with seven counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder at the Oikos University – the deadliest U.S. campus attack since the shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007. He has not yet entered a plea.
Police have said Goh was targeting an administrator who had been involved in his financial dispute with the school.
When he learned she wasn't there, police say, he began shooting in classrooms. Police are also investigating whether Goh might have been seeking multiple targets.
CBS San Francisco reporter Julie Goodrich said that as they spoke, Goh kept his head down. His eyes were bloodshot and at one point he started to cry, she said.
She added that he spoke English clearly, despite accounts in the aftermath of the shootings that he had struggled with the language and was teased because of his lack of fluency.
“I was studying to be a nurse … but it didn’t happen. It is complicated to explain,” he told her.
Meanwhile, the director of the nursing program at Oikos college, said her students don't want to return to the classroom building where the shootings took place.
Ellen Cervellon said Wednesday that nursing students at Oikos are still traumatized by the April 2 shooting and are looking for a new space off campus to hold classes. Instructors say they are not sure when classes will resume.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Oh you're "sorry?" Dude...you killed seven people and seriously injured three more. And for what? Because you had a financial dispute? And you expect us to buy that? The only thing you are sorry about is that you got caught.
Too bad you are in California because life in prison is too good for a scumbag like you.
Exactly Crwre. He's not sorry for what he did. He's just very sorry he got caught. Throw the book at him.
Personally, I've always been of the opinion that the families of the victims should have first dibs on someone like this. After the conviction they should have at least an hour privately with the murderer.
But of course, that would not be Legal would it? It would be against his constitutional rights. Cruel and Unusual punishment.
There's no way he could have made it in the nursing profession. If he snapped like this while in school I'd hate to see what he'd do with the stress that comes with being a nurse.
litttlesmartkid banned, flameout; this was about their average comment.
Sociopath, psychopath. They don't know the meaning of sorry.
Sorry does not re-animate the dead buddy, its time you meet your maker or serve time and meet him later.
I believe he's sorry. Look at his eyes. He's sorry.
Big deal.
Yet another 40-something going on 12. I thought it was an American neurosis, but apparently it's gone global.
I believe patter is throwing sarcism in his/her statement for the first two lines.
Patter's last statement is saying that it is believable that just americans have a narcissistic quality and believe everything is about themselves, therefore presenting situations in which they must go on crazy shooting sprees when something doesn't go their way. But now One Goh has shown this to be true for people from another culture.
LOL
I guess it takes one Hoosier to interpret another. ;)
Thanks, Engineer.
Considering that there seems to be 100 laws written to protect the guilty to every one that protects the innocent, it is probably only a matter of time until saying your sorry gets you off.
Too bad for him Haley Barbour isn't the Governor of California.
Haley Barbour is a fat @!$%# who needs to die of AIDS.
I am not a fan of Haley Barbour, but this sort of thing has no place in our discourse.
Does your mommy know you are unsupervised on the interwebs?
You're fighting a losing battle, AAJJ. Shame doesn't seem much to work in trying to keep postings civil. Better to use the "!" option, located in the lower right corner of every posting, & pick from the menu.
He may be sorry? But sorry dont change the facts. You killed people, you pay the price. Now, its time for One Goh to Goh away for life! Good riddence!
He is sorry he got caught, well he is not half as sorry as he will be once he finds himself awaiting the death penalty. He has a bad day and he goes off and kills these people. Well he will have a bunch of "BAD DAYS" ahead of him. Sorry doesn't cut it you are scum bud.
Guns don't kill people, sorry people kill people.
sorry doesn't bring back the people he murdered...death penalty case and soon please...
After he is found guilty and put to death, let him be "Deeply Sorry, DEEPLY BURIED."
Sorry to say Alan. It's California. Jury and Judge gives death and they NEVER carry it out. Cal has like 600 plus on Death Row and probably 90+% will never be executed. They are billions in debt, don't carry out the Laws they already have and let the FEW rule them. In Texas this guy 100% will be put to death if that is the sentence. The poor folks he murdered are just as dead if he is sorry or not. None of that should have any baring on sentencing. Sorry? Give me a break.
I'm sure the "christianity" part is a little murky too.
Yeah, because atheists don't attend christian universities as well, right? I don't know where you live, but in NY some of the best universities are christian.
Just as sorry as we'll all be when your pronounced dead in the execution chamber. Provided we're still alive 30 years from now when they finally carry out the sentence.
Students don't want to return to the rooms where the shootings took place???? Damn, they're studying to be nurses, who deal with trauma and blood and gun-shot victims on a daily basis, but these people are too freaked out by the shooting to return to classrooms? Please keep any 'nurses' from this school away from any ER.
Well maybe they could be nurses in a combat zone?
Naw...to fragile for that too I'll bet!
sleepinsadie, you are an idiot. Not all nurses (and they aren't nurses they are students) work in the ER. Not all nurses deal with gun-shot victims that are their friends and colleagues.
I'm sure if someone came into your work place and shot someone next to you and by some lucky happen stance you weren't shot and killed, you wouldn't be to eager to return to work.
Please keep your closed-minded ignorant opinions to yourself. Have some compassion for the victims, and hope that someday something as horrible doesn't happen to you.
sleepinsadie=moron
sleepinsadie - So much compassion you have! (sarcasm) My goodness just because you are studying to be a nurse does not mean you are studying to handle a situation where someone tells you and your fellow students to line up and starts shooting them!
How many times have you been in a life or death situation? Obviously, you know nothing about real trauma!
Sleepinsadie- Please think before you make a comment. Dealing with gunshot victims is completely different than getting shot at or being in a place that the shooting is happening. And as No Telling At All said not all nurses deal with trauma victims, gun shot or other types of trauma "on a daily basis", or work in the ER. Nursing has a huge scope of practice, do some research and educate yourself.
Till you have experienced something of this magnitude, which I hope you or anyone else will never have too, and have been in the shoes of all those there that day do not judge them on not wanting to return to the classrooms.
I have been a nurse for 3 years now and in Nov 2009 experienced the aftermath of the shooting at Fort Hood first hand working at the hospital there. And again, if you have never been in a life and death situation or have any insight into a trauma of any sort do NOT judge!
Sorry really? What's next, you going to claim you got molested by a priest at the school, is that why you did it? That might stick better...
If he did infact kill those people, kill him or forgive him and let him go.
SleepinSadie is so "RIGHT-ON"
Waiting for the time you are lined up with friends and working or school friends and someone starts shooting you all down. Then, I would like to find out just how "un-traumatized" you are! Idiot!
Students have not been trained or prepared for combat, you clown!
So I see the racists at msnbc are at it again.
Calling this ASIAN killer merely "alleged" while claiming Mr Zimmerman was a WHITE murderer.
I love that too, especially when Zimmerman is half Hispanic!
He's sorry now ?... now he is going to find Jesus and religion like the rest of the killers in jail.
Yes, he is sorry; a sorry excuse of a man.
Runnin Hard, Littlesmartkid,
Isn't there a CNN site you could be playing in? Time to run along now....
Looks like they pummeled his face. OUCH! Sorry my @ss. Sorry for what?! Punk...
Out...
sniffle....sniffle....this is so touching.
His name rhymes with the painter's.
Why are they always sorry after the fact. Is he sorry he didn't stop after the first one, or the second one, etc. Or is he sorry he got caught. I'm waiting to hear what they all say, "I found God". What you say. Tell you more. "The devil made me do it". Why don't they take their sorry a ss es and put all the killers in a deep swimming pool and have boiling hot water come out of a regular hose. Then you'll hear how sorry they are. I have no sympathy for people who kill. An eye for an eye. The state could say "oops I thought that was cold water going in there. Must have been a mistake".
I believe he might already "believe" in God because he was attending a Chistain based school.
As you can see I'll a believer in cruel and unusual punishment. Now that Casey Anthony got off there's going to be more that will use a defense like her's and there will be juries who will believe them.