Suspect traveled on high speed train to Tainan with submachine gun
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/19
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Police arrested a man leaving the Tainan High Speed Rail
The Taipei New Horizon building. (By Central News Agency)
Station with a gun in his bag as a suspect in a shooting incident near a Taipei shopping mall earlier Friday.
Nobody was injured in the incident, but the man had reportedly been seen firing a gun three times in the air near the Taipei New Horizon shopping center (台北松菸文創) around 1 p.m.
The building houses a hotel, an Eslite bookstore and numerous boutiques, but police suspected the show of force was directed at the offices of a construction company part of the Fubon Group.
Police found evidence that a man had arrived by taxi, fired three shots in the air, and left again, the Central News Agency reported. He apparently took the cab to the high speed rail station in Taoyuan, where he boarded a train with a ticket to Tainan.
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