PENNSYLVANIA ARREST: Di Ying said the gun found in her son’s room was a prop for Halloween. He is being held on the misdemeanor charge of making terrorist threats
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 30, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA and AP
The mother and the defense attorney of a Taiwanese exchange student arrested at his
Sun An-tso, son of actress Di Ying, poses with a flamethrower in an undated photograph. Photo: Screen grab from Facebook
Pennsylvania high school on Tuesday for threatening to shoot up the school yesterday said his threat was “just a joke.”
Di Ying (狄鶯), a television and Taiwanese opera actress, told SET News that a gun found by US police in the bedroom of her son, Sun An-tso (孫安佐), was one that he took to the US to be used for a Halloween costume party.
She said the alleged threat to open fire at the school was either a joke or the result of a language misunderstanding, adding that she has hired a lawyer to represent her son.
Sun, 18, the only child of Di and actor Sun Peng (孫鵬), went to the US last fall to attend Bonner and Prendergast Catholic High School in Drexel Hill, and lived with a host family in Lansdowne. [FULL STORY]