MRT slasher suspect charged, detained

‘ALL TOO LATE’:Police allege that Kuo Yen-chun, who had been sleeping in a public park, told them he carried out the attack out of frustration after being jobless for a long time

Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 22, 2015
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter, with CNA

Kuo Yen-chun (郭彥君), the suspect in the Taipei MRT knife attack on Monday evening that

A man surnamed Kuo, second right, who was detained by police on Monday night at Zhongshan MRT Station after allegedly attacking four people with a knife, is silent as he is escorted out of the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office in Taipei yesterday.Jul 22, 2015

A man surnamed Kuo, second right, who was detained by police on Monday night at Zhongshan MRT Station after allegedly attacking four people with a knife, is silent as he is escorted out of the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office in Taipei yesterday.Jul 22, 2015

injured four people, was detained yesterday after being charged with attempted murder and intentional injury.

Kuo was questioned at the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office in Taipei yesterday morning, then taken to the Shilin District Court, where the presiding judge upheld the prosecutors’ request for detention, saying the suspect has no permanent residence and that detention was necessary to prevent him from escaping justice.

Police said the 27-year-old suspect told them: “I wanted to kill someone,” and that he had made a mistake, but “it was all too late.”     [FULL  STORY]

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