Court case to start on May 23
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/02
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
An Tso Sun leaving court on April 25. (By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Despite earlier reports to the contrary, the Taiwanese student accused of plotting a massacre at his school in Pennsylvania is unlikely to return home to Taiwan soon, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported Wednesday.
An Tso “Edward” Sun (孫安佐), the son of celebrities Di Ying (狄鶯) and Sun Peng (孫鵬), was detained in late March after a fellow student reported a threat he made of planning a mass shooting at his school on May 1. Subsequent searches turned up 1,600 rounds of ammunition and a handgun he built himself, according to police statements.
At a court hearing on April 25, it was reported that Sun’s attorney had advised him to plead guilty to a charge of making a “terroristic threat” in return for prosecutors dropping a charge of possessing “instruments of crime.”
A second hearing was expected on May 23, but the Delaware County District Court web site apparently described the case as “closed” Wednesday. [FULL STORY]
