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7 dead, 3 hurt in Christian school shooting: cops

A crazed gunman sprayed rapid fire inside a little-known California Christian college today, slaughtering at least seven people and wounding three others.

The lone shooter, identified by Oakland police as One L. Goh, 43, at Oikos University was captured outside a supermarket in neighboring Alameda, shortly after the 10:23 a.m. bloodbath.

Safeway grocery store employees told local newspapers that Goh approached store managers, copped to the shooting and asked to be arrested.

“`I just shot some people,’ ” one worker quoted Goh, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

Lisa Resler, 41, who witnessed Goh’s arrest, said he was remarkably calm as store security held him for cops.

“I don’t know why he came here to Alameda,” said Resler, calling the man “very sedated” and “out of it.”

“I’m really shaken up. My heart’s racing, this is very shocking to me.”

Circling news helicopters captured footage of terrified students fleeing the school and heavily armed SWAT officers entering campus with Goh then still at large.

Cable and local news programs showed the disturbing images of blankets covering five bodies on the campus lawn.

Immediately after the shooting, police also evacuated local businesses in the industrial area of town, in the shadows of Oakland International Airport.

Pastor and Oikos founder Jong Kim said Goh is a former nursing student. Kim didn’t know if he had dropped out or was expelled.

The holy man recalled hearing about 30 rapid-fire shots.

“I stayed in my office,” Kim told The Oakland Tribune.

‘‘I can confirm that we do have one person who has been detained that we believe is possibly responsible for this shooting,’’ said Oakland police officer Johanna Watson.

Witness Angie Johnson, 52, told The Chronicle that Goh blew away one student — with a point-blank blast to the chest — before firing on the rest of class.

Johnson said she spotted a blood-soaked woman fleeing a building and crying: “I’ve been shot. I’ve been shot.”

“She said he [Goh] looked crazy all the time,” Johnson said the victim told her, “but they never knew how far he would go.”

Another witness, Brian Snow, said students went running as soon as bullets began to fly.

“One of the people who was inside the building, she was saying there is a crazy guy inside,” Snow told KGO-TV..

“She did say someone got shot in the chest right next to her before she got taken off in an ambulance.”

English instructor Lucas Garcia, 33, told student to run for their lives after he heard shots ring out and a voice scream: “Someone has a gun!”

Student Deborah Lee was in an English class when she heard at least five rounds being fired.

“The teacher said, ‘Run,’ and we run,” she said.

“I was OK, because I know God protects me. I’m not afraid of him.”

The school describes itself as an “emerging Christian” institution that spreads “a comprehensive knowledge of the Bible and an understanding of Christian doctrine.”

The school, with a Web site in both English and Korean, also said its goals are to “develop an appreciation for the Korean and Korean-American church … including its knowledge, history.”

The campus offers classes in biblical studies, music, nursing and Asian medicine.

“I feel really sad, so I cannot talk right now,” said school secretary Myung Soon Ma. “I feel really sad, so I cannot talk right now.”

Oikos University accountant Jerry Sung said the school has less than 100 students — many with plans to work in nursing or the ministry after graduation.

“The founder felt there was a need for theology and nursing courses for Korean-Americans who were newer to the community,” Sung said. “He felt they would feed more comfortable if they had Korean-American professors.”

With Post Wire Services