PUBLIC SAFETY? Police arrested suspects in Thursday’s and yesterday’s shootings, but Chinese Culture University, which employs one of the victims, decried worsening safety
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 09, 2017
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Three people have been arrested after two separate shooting incidents in Taipei. A woman was hit in the face by an air gun pellet on Thursday and a man fired four bullets at a lottery shop yesterday.
Police yesterday announced that they apprehended two suspects in relation to Thursday’s shooting and, as part of the investigation, took them to the scene to simulate their roles in the action.
In Thursday’s incident, the victim was a 36-year-old woman surnamed Wu (吳), a Chinese Culture University staff member, who was riding her scooter along Taipei’s Chongqing S Road Sec 3, heading toward Zhongzheng Bridge and New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和), as she returned home in the early morning.
According to Wu Tien-fa (吳添發), head of the criminal investigation section of Taipei Police Department’s Zhongzheng Second Precinct, the victim was found bleeding after being shot in the face, with the bullet having shattered most of her teeth and torn through her tongue. Paramedics found a pellet lodged inside her mouth. [FULL STORY]