The 100 or so church members, most of whom are senior citizens, worship in their native language — not Mandarin but Taiwanese.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department says it detained a suspect and a weapon at a church shooting in Laguna Woods.A man in his 60s entered the room and began shooting, killing one person and wounding five others ages 66 to 92 before church members disarmed him and hogtied him with an electric cord.
“Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church is a family of love,” the current pastor, Albany Lee, said on the church’s website. “I hope that all brothers and sisters can become acquainted with each other on a deeper level.” “Them being stuck in Taiwan turned out to be a blessing because they would have been there,” she said.
Chang picked up a chair and hit the gunman before other members of the congregation grabbed him, the witnesses told Huang.
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