The suspect who killed one and injured five after a Taiwanese service at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, was once a member of a U.S.-based group controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced that the shooting by the gunmen, 68-year-old David Wenwei Chou, was “a politically motivated hate incident.” Dr. John Cheng, a 52-year-old family practice physician, was killed when he charged at the gunman and attempted to disarm him.
Sheriff Don Barnes said that the suspect “was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan.”
Barnes also indicated that the suspect, who was not a regular attendee and had no known ties or affiliation with the church, secured the doors within the church with chains and tried to disable the locks with superglue before he opened fire….