One Goh — an Alameda man serving seven consecutive life sentences for each of the seven people he fatally shot at a small Oakland vocational college in April 2012 — has died in prison.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Wednesday that the 50-year-old Goh died at California State Prison-Sacramento on March 20.
CDCR spokeswoman Vicky Waters said a cause of death hasn't been determined. She did not respond to requests for more details.
Goh was also convicted of injuring three people during the shooting at the Christian-affiliated Oikos University. Police said Goh was angry with school administrators for expelling him and refusing to refund his tuition.
In December 2015, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Gloria Rhynes ruled that Goh suffered from schizophrenia, severe depression and a delusional disorder, and was mentally unfit to stand trial.
Goh was doing well in school when he said he believed faculty started to conspire against him, handing out test answers to other students and laughing at him. He was convinced his car was being followed through a GPS tracker and that his landlord was spying on him through the keyhole and leaving maggots on his floor. His lawyers said paranoia led him to withdraw from school and become homeless in the months before he returned to Oikos to commit the mass shooting.
Judge Rhynes' 2015 ruling mandated that Goh's mental health be re-evaluated every year.
Goh pleaded no contest to murder charges in May 2017, soon after a judge declared him mentally competent to stand trial.
This post includes reporting from Paul Elias of The Associated Press.