Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) A 55-year-old man accused of shooting five people at a biotechnology company in Nantou County in July was charged with murder on Tuesday, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the case, according to the Nantou District Prosecutors Office.
Police yesterday for a second time searched the home of the sole suspect in an execution-style killing of four people at Kang Jian Biotech Co in Nantou County’s Caotun Township (草屯) on Thursday.
On the second day of questioning, Lee Hung-yuan (李鴻淵) still did not reveal where and from whom he had obtained the firearm allegedly used in the killing, prosecutors said.
Investigators seized several boxes full of items at his home in the township’s Shuangdong Borough (雙冬里) and questioned his wife, neighbors said.
Lee, 55, is accused of shooting five people in the head at his former employer, a developer of