Mourners attend a memorial service at the Allen Temple Baptist Church Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Oakland, Calif. Several hundred people gathered Tuesday night for a prayer vigil for the victims of Monday's shooting at Oikos University, a small Christian school in Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Mourners attend a memorial service at the Allen Temple Baptist Church Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Oakland, Calif. Several hundred people gathered Tuesday night for a prayer vigil for the victims of Monday's shooting at Oikos University, a small Christian school in Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
This photo released by the Alameda County Sheriff's Department shows One Goh, 43, who is suspected of killing seven people at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., on Monday April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Alameda County Sheriff's Dept. via The San Francisco Chronicle) MANDATORY CREDIT
Mourners arrive for a memorial service for the seven people killed by a gunman at Oikos University yesterday at the Allen Temple Baptist Church Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Mourners attend a memorial service at the Allen Temple Baptist Church Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Oakland, Calif. Several hundred people gathered Tuesday night for a prayer vigil for the victims of Monday's shooting at Oikos University, a small Christian school in Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan speaks during a memorial service at the Allen Temple Baptist Church Tuesday, April 3, 2012, in Oakland, Calif. Several hundred people gathered Tuesday night for a prayer vigil for the victims of Monday's shooting at Oikos University, a small Christian school in Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ? The nursing program director at the California Christian college where a gunman went on a shooting rampage said Wednesday she thinks she was the suspect's intended target.
Ellen Cervellon said suspect One Goh dropped out of the nursing program at Oikos University last fall, but came back to ask her for a full refund on his tuition.
"In talking to several of the students and faculty who were there, I think he was looking for me. I have that weight on my shoulders and I don't know what to do with it," she told The Associated Press, her voice quivering with emotion.
"Every single one of those students were going to be an excellent, excellent nurse. They're in my heart and they always will be," she said.
Cervellon said police have not yet spoken with her.
Cervellon said Goh also told her that he felt the other students were picking on him. She said he became angry when she said the school could not refund all of his money.
Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan told reporters Tuesday Goh was angry after being expelled from the school, but Cervellon said he was never expelled and decided to leave on his own.
"He was never forced out, he showed no behavioral programs, and he was never asked to leave the program," she said in an interview with The Associated Press. "He decided on his own to leave the program."
Police have said Goh was seeking a female administrator when he went to the Oakland campus Monday morning. When he was told she wasn't there, they say, he began shooting in classrooms.
Six students and a receptionist were killed and three others were wounded when the gunman went on the shooting rampage Monday morning at the university, an Oakland school founded to help Korean immigrants adjust to life in America and launch new careers.
"Only God knows the meaning of the suffering we endure," Dr. Woo Nam Soo, the university's vice president, said in Korean during the church service. "In this unbearable tragedy and suffering, only God can create something good out of it."
Shortly after the deadly shooting spree, police arrested Goh, 43, at a supermarket a few miles from campus.
He is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon.
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