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School massacre: A gunman shot and killed seven people and wounded three others this week in a revenge-fueled slaughter at a small Christian college. The alleged shooter, One Goh, 43, had been attending Oikos University as a nursing student, but had been asked to leave several months ago, police said. Goh reportedly returned to the school with a semiautomatic handgun, seeking vengeance against the school official who had expelled him. Unable to find the official, he shot and killed a secretary at the front desk and entered a classroom, where he began “systematically and randomly shooting victims,” police said. Witnesses said Goh ordered the students to line up against a classroom wall and began executing them one by one at point-blank range, according to authorities. “It was a very bloody scene,” said Police Chief Howard Jordan, describing the Bay Area’s worst mass killing in almost 20 years.

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