Nepali victim at Oakland Shooting yesterday

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Chief: Oakland shooting victims hailed from Korea, Nigeria, Nepal and the Philippines Oakland Tribune Posted:   04/03/2012 05:47:26 AM PDT Updated:   04/03/2012 08:30:52 AM PDT   OAKLAND -- A recent immigrant living in El Cerrito is the latest identified victim of Monday's shooting rampage at Oikos University in East Oakland, according to authorities and community leaders. Seven people died -- six women and one man -- and three more were wounded in the Monday morning shooting at the small Christian university, the Bay Area's worst mass killing in almost 20 years. Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan said Tuesday morning that the victims hailed from Korea, Nigeria, Nepal and the Philippines. Sonam Choden, 33, of El Cerrito, was new to the East Bay's Tibetan-American community, having moved here from India just over a year ago, said Tenzin Tsedup of the Tibetan Association of Northern California. Choden enrolled at Oikos to study nursing. "Many Tibetans, new immigrants, they go to that school to do LPN or CNA," Tsedup said. She lived with her brother. Before moving to the United States, she had worked in education administration for Tibet's exiled government in Dharamsala, India. Another shooting victim also hailed from that region: Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38, of San Francisco, was killed when the gunman stole his car outside the school Monday morning. Bhutia was born in the tiny Indian state of Sikkim, which is separate from the rest of that country, landlocked by Nepal and China. Bhutia, who lived alone in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood and worked nights cleaning terminals at that Advertisement   city's airport, also was studying nursing at Oikos, a tiny Christian college. He had also worked in restaurants. Other identified victims include 21-year-old student Lydia Sim and 24-year-old Katleen Ping, authorities confirmed. A memorial service is planned for 6 p.m. Tuesday at Allen Temple Baptist Church, 8501 International Blvd. in East Oakland. Check back later for updates to this story. Staff writers Matt O'Brien and Robert Salonga contributed to this report.

cybernepali · Apr 3, 2012 11:31 AM · 15,716 views

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 These Koreans are becoming famous for shotting and killing peoples like the Virgina Tech massacre. Keep an eye.

Vhootee · Apr 3, 2012 9:51 PM

Whats the name of nepali??

facebook · Apr 3, 2012 10:45 PM

Non of victim are nepali. One is from tibet and another from Skkim.

facebook · Apr 3, 2012 11:10 PM

 The girl who's supposedly a Nepali Citizen is actually a Tibetan. 

riddle · Apr 3, 2012 11:54 PM

That's what i couldn't understand the news ,there's Nepal included in headlines as country of victims but when you keep on reading to bottom I don't see any thing name and country with Nepal description ??? what's this ???

fantush · Apr 4, 2012 12:02 AM

 Both victims are tibetans. 

riddle · Apr 4, 2012 12:07 AM

Riddle that butani is from skkim re.

facebook · Apr 4, 2012 12:28 AM

 Facebook, I wasn't talking about Bhutia. I was talking about Sonam Choden. She's a Tibetan. 

riddle · Apr 4, 2012 12:35 AM

I think he meant to say "Greater Nepal" (including Tibet,Sikkim & Bhutan).

mech · Apr 4, 2012 8:02 AM

Chirring was a kind and nice Nepali speaking gentleman from Sikkim. I met him few years ago in San Francisco at a restaurant he had started working. Poor soul.

rajeshhamal · Apr 4, 2012 11:23 PM

Rip all those people

facebook · Apr 5, 2012 12:26 AM

एक व्यक्तिको पागलपनको शिकार हुनेहरुमा हार्दिक श्रद्धान्जली ! जो मरे / मारिए पनि पनि त्यो दुखद घटना हो . छिरिंग वा सोनाम नेपाली भएको भए बढी दुख लाग्ने नभाको भए खुचिंग भन्न मिल्छ र ? रह्यो सिक्किमे को कुरा, सिक्केमेलीहरु ले नेपाली बोल्छन , सिक्किम को सरकारी कामकाजिको भाषा नेपाली . भाषिक रुपमा नेपालका केही भागका नेपाली भन्दा नि नेपाली हुन् सिक्किमेहरू. नेपाली चाड पर्ब गर्बका साथ् मनाउछन, नेपाली साहित्य र कलाको जगेर्नामा यथेष्ट प्रयास गरेका छन् . अर्को कुरा रह्यो तिब्बत तिर को सोनामको बारेमा. सम्भवत नेपाली भाषी नभए पनि नेपाली बुझ्ने हुन सक्छ. नेपाल को तिब्बत सिमा वरिपरी बस्ने नेपाली जनजातिको भाषा, संस्कृति र चालचलन सिमापारिमा तिब्बतीहरु संग धेरै हद सम्म मिल्दो जुल्दो छ. त्यसो त भौगोलिक नेपालमा बस्ने उत्तरी सिमाका नेपालि नागरिकहरुलाई नेपाली बोल्न र लेख्न जति गाह्रो छ त्यति दक्षिण तिर का अझ आयातितहरुलाई गाह्रो छैन . मेरो हिसाबमा सोनाम र छिरिंग नेपाली नागरिक नभए पनि नेपाल र नेपाली संग कहीं न कहीं तार जोडिएका आत्माहरु हुन् . अकाल मृत्यु दुखदायी र दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण छ नै . अस्तु !!  

rahulvai · Apr 5, 2012 8:59 AM

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