Six killed by university gunman

A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California today, killing at least six people.

Police have arrested a suspect following the shooting at Oikos University in Oakland.

Officer Johnna Watson did not give any other details about the suspect, but authorities earlier described the gunman as a heavyset Korean man in his 40s wearing khaki clothing.

“I can confirm that we do have one person who has been detained that we believe is possibly responsible for this shooting,” Ms Watson said.

A local TV station reported that the gunman was a student and opened fire in a classroom.

Television news footage showed a chaotic scene as heavily armed officers swarmed into the building in search of the shooter. The footage also showed bloodied victims on stretchers being loaded into ambulances.

Pastor Jong Kim, who founded the school about 10 years ago, told the Oakland Tribune that he heard about 30 gunshots in the building.

“I stayed in my office,” he said.

Angie Johnson, 52, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she saw a young woman leave the building with blood coming from her arm and crying: “I’ve been shot. I’ve been shot.”

The injured woman said the gunman was a man in her nursing class who got up and shot one person at point-blank range in the chest before spraying the room with bullets, Johnson said.

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

According of its website, Oikos University offers studies in theology, music, nursing and Asian medicine.