A gunman opened fire in a Southern California church during a lunch banquet on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five, before churchgoers detained the suspect and hog-tied his legs with an electrical cord, authorities said.
Witnesses to the shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods told a Yorba Linda councilwoman what happened in the moments leading up to and right.
David Wenwei Chou, 68, of Las Vegas, Nevada was booked on suspicion of one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Los Angeles yesterday said it was providing emergency services to families after a shooting at a church in the city on Sunday killed one Taiwanese-American and injured five.
Forty members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church had gathered at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods on Sunday to attend a luncheon in honor of Pastor Billy Chang (張承宗), when an Asian man in his 60s allegedly entered the church at about 1:30pm and started shooting, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday, citing information from Los Angeles police.
The wounded, who were all