A suspect arrested after a mass shooting at Laguna Woods Presbyterian Church in California this weekend has emerged in a local report, holding a banner against Taiwanese “devils” from Las Vegas at an event for the Chinese government-affiliated group Radio Free Asia. RFA report) on Tuesday.
David Chow (Chow Wenwei) has been charged with murder and attempted murder after a shootout that left five people injured and one killed at a Taiwanese dinner honoring a pastor at a church Sunday afternoon. Police later said they found evidence in his vehicle that the motive for the attack was his objection to having an independent Taiwan.
Taiwan is an independent country governed under an independent and democratic system, but the Chinese Communist Party has incorrectly called it a “rogue province” that it wants to “reunify” with the “mainland”. Taiwan has never in its history been ruled by any regime in Beijing.
Zhou, a 68-year-old retired professor who was confirmed to be a Taiwanese citizen by the Taiwanese government, had participated in at least one event with a group linked to the Chinese regime aimed at ending Taiwan’s sovereignty before he was shot. RFA. disclosure.
“California churchgoer David Chow is closely linked to a Taiwanese “peace reunification” group affiliated with the United Front Workers’ Department of the ruling Communist Party of China,” RFA said, and the United Front office’s office in the United Front’s Chinese government interests. “… the group is a local branch of the National Association for the Peaceful Unification of China (NACPU) affiliated with the United Front Workers’ Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP).”
The identified group is called the Las Vegas Association for the Peaceful Unification of China; Zhou looks like he’s from Las Vegas.
Chinese website LVNews published an article announcing the group’s inaugural meeting in April 2019. Zhou appears in a photo from the event with a banner whose RFA message translates as a call to “eliminate the demons of independence.” The caption of the photo describes the man as Zhou Wenwei, a “retired local professor.”
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Taiwanese Freedom Times The newspaper also reported on Zhou’s membership in the group on Tuesday. Gu Yawen, the leader of the “peaceful reunification” group, states in a Chinese interview with a publication known as China Review, that he “immediately distanced himself” from the alleged aggressor. Gu allegedly confirmed that he attended the meeting where Zhou was photographed, but said he stopped participating in the group’s activities until the end of 2019. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in China in early 2020 prompted the state of California to quarantine and then overstimulate. meetings, perhaps a factor in your absence.
Gu described Zhou’s ideas as “too extreme” for his group.
In 2020, the US State Department appointed the National Association for the Peaceful Unification of China (NACPU), the umbrella organization of the Gu group, as the “foreign mission” of the Chinese government.
“The United Front Workers Agency (UFWD) is a body of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tasked with consolidating and neutralizing threats to party leadership and spreading its influence and propaganda abroad,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. “The CCP sees this party’s apparatus as a ‘magic weapon’ to advance Beijing’s policies.”
Police said on Monday that Zhou appeared to have decided to attack the church because of his opposition to the Taiwanese state’s existence.
“Based on what we’ve found so far, we believe it specifically targeted the Taiwanese community, and this is one of the representations of the Taiwanese community,” Orange County Coroner Sheriff Don Barnes told reporters.
California reports described the attack as a “hate crime” against Taiwanese, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Office carefully removed the word “hate” from the description of the incident, only stating that officials believed Zhou “failed in the political tensions associated with China and Taiwan.”
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– OC Sheriff, California (@OCSheriff) 17 May 2022
Los Angeles timesThe stated law enforcement officials said that Zhou left notes on his vehicle against the existence of the Taiwanese nation.
The suspicion that the incident was called a crime may stem from Taiwan’s government confirming that Zhou himself was born in Taiwan and served in the Taiwanese military. Eyewitnesses said that Zhou said he attacked Taiwanese people with dinner attendees.
“Elderly Taiwanese immigrants with 100 or more members who rent space at the Taiwan Presbyterian Church in Irvine at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods.” Los Angeles times noticeable. “Some say Zhou spoke to them in Taiwanese before firing a gun at a dinner honoring the longtime pastor.”
Zhou injured five people, all between 66 and 92, and killed a sixth. Deadly victim Dr. John Cheng is a sports medicine specialist and martial arts enthusiast. his life is progressing. According to eyewitnesses, Dr. Cheng allowed the congregation to tie Zhou down with an extension cord; Police found Chow in this position when they answered the emergency call.
“This group of bosses demonstrated what we believe to be extraordinary heroism and courage by searching and detaining the suspect,” said Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeff Hallock later. “They certainly prevented further injuries and deaths. I think things could have gotten worse if people hadn’t intervened.
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