Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-28
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a ruling of the Taiwan High Court that sentences 
Kuo, 28, attacked people with a 20cm kitchen knife at MRT Zhongshan Station on July 21 last year, injuring four people. Kuo was suppressed by five security guards and the station chief after a few minutes’ face-off before police arrived to handcuff him and take him away.
Police said Kuo’s parents were divorced when he was a little child and Kuo had lived with his mother in Japan for a long time, but came back to Taiwan after his mother died of cancer.
Investigators said Kuo had been unemployed for a long period of time. He had a quarrel with his aunt one day after being hallucinated from taking drugs and left home; he later slept on public park benches, police said. He felt depressed and was filled with pent-up emotions, so he stole a knife from a store and went to the station to commit the crime, police said. [FULL STORY]