Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38, of San Francisco, was killed on April 2, 2012, during the mass shooting at Oikos University in Oakland. The attack left seven dead and three injured. The shooter, One L. Goh, a former nursing student at Oikos, used a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and was reported to have brought multiple magazines and to have ordered students to line up against a wall before opening fire.

Bhutia was in the parking lot when he was shot and killed as the gunman stole his car to flee the scene. Goh later surrendered to authorities at a nearby supermarket and was arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. Bhutia, originally from Sikkim in India, worked as a janitor at San Francisco International Airport while attending nursing school at Oikos University and was remembered as hardworking and cheerful.