The suspect charged in the nation’s largest school shooting since Virginia Tech changed his name a decade ago in Fairfax County because he felt his birth name sounded too much like a girl’s.
One L. Goh, a 43-year-old South Korea native charged this week with killing seven people in California, was born Su Nam Ko. But in February 2002, he filed a petition to change his name because, he wrote, he did “not like my current name because it sounds like a girl’s name,” the Associated Press reported.
Goh, who had lived in Springfield, has a brother in Centreville. Another brother, U.S. Army Sgt. Su Wan Ko, died in Virginia in March 2011 when a boulder fell on his car along Interstate 77 in Carroll County.
One L. Goh is charged with killing seven people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at Oakland’s Oikos University Monday.
