Members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church and leaders of the Taiwanese American Community gathered in mourning Saturday at the church where a gunman opened fire last weekend, killing a doctor who tackled the shooter and likely saved lives.
The nature of the suspect's grievance was not immediately clear. He faces a murder charge with a special circumstances allegation of lying in wait that would make him eligible for the death penalty or at least life in prison without the possibility of parole, if he is convicted.before going to the church Sunday morning.
The suspect, a U.S. citizen, was born in Taiwan in 1953, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported, citing the head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles, Taiwan’s de-facto consulate in the city. “We hope the U.S. government will take effective measures to resolve the worsening gun violence issue at home,” Wang told reporters at a daily briefing.
“I join the families of the victims and Taiwanese American communities in grief and pray for the speedy recovery of the wounded survivors," Hsiao wrote. The former Japanese colony had only been handed over to Nationalist Chinese rule in 1945 at the end of World War II, and relations between mainlanders and native Taiwanese were often tense.
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