Orange County Sheriff Scott Steinley posted a photo of John Cheng, 52, foiling a massacre in California. Jae C Hong (AP)
Terror and chaos were unleashed on the ground, which was experienced at Laguna Woods Sunday afternoon. In the banquet hall of the Presbyterian Church in Geneva, 80 miles south of Los Angeles, dozens of tables were decorated with long tables. They had red plastic cups. On the floor, plates and food scraps such as popcorn. The vast space, decorated with a huge black curtain and biblical phrases, was the scene of a clash of good and evil. A group of Taiwan-born parishioners battle 68-year-old Asian national David Chow, who was the mastermind behind the latest racist massacre in the United States. To stop this, there was one man, John Cheng, a 52-year-old doctor who blamed the perpetrator and prevented further bleeding. This heroically charged gesture was the last act of his life. Dr. Cheng has so far been the only victim of a recent incident of gun violence in the country. “He’s a hero in this incident…he saved dozens of lives,” Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said Monday.
Parishioners gathered on Sunday afternoon to greet Billy Chang, a beloved pastor who led a church before going on a mission to Taiwan. The banquet in his honor was attended by about fifty people, most of them elderly. There was a stranger among them. A face that no believer knew. He wasn’t there at 10:30, but he tried to blend in with the churchgoers. He was a wolf among the sheep. The subject, David Chow, 68, took out two nine-millimeter rifles and began firing at believers.
“Dr. Cheng, knowing the room was full of elderly people, walked across the room to disarm the gunman,” Todd Spitzer, the Orange County District Attorney in Laguna Woods, said Monday. After the first shot, the family doctor, a resident of Laguna Nigel, who took the mother to work, accused Chow. In this attempt he was shot. The shooter stopped the gun while trying to finish it. Cheng, one of the youngest in attendance, died of a gunshot wound soon after, but his gesture was enough to convince the parishioner to stop time. The professor kicked him against the back of the chair and a group of people bound his limbs by extending the handle. The police arrived minutes after the scuffle.
“The doctor took care of himself so that others could live. “This irony in the church cannot go unnoticed.” Storage of explosives. The room, as he described it, is decorated with New Testament legends about how to treat and love others. Pedestrians and crutches were left behind by participants in a panic flight. The ages of the five injured are not specified, but range from 66 to 92 years. Among them is a married couple from the 1980s. Patients are further treated in local hospitals. Your health condition is stable.
Laguna Woods attacker David Chow photo courtesy of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.- (AFP)
It was hate that led Chow to commit the crime. The man, a security guard in Las Vegas, spent four and a half hours Saturday from Nevada City to this peaceful community filled with nursing homes and retirees over 65. His goal was to do as much damage as possible. Police have removed two bags from the church. One was loaded for pistols. The other had four Molotov cocktails. Chow slammed and locked the doors from the inside to make them unusable, preventing the elderly from leaving the premises. Only one revolving door was working when the police arrived.
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“It was an isolated incident where the man acted alone, but it is an act of hatred against Taiwanese society,” Sheriff Barnes said Monday. “The suspect was offended by the political tensions between China and Taiwan,” he said. Among the evidence found and being investigated by authorities is Chow’s cell phone, which the FBI is analyzing, and data found in the attacker’s car. Barnes said this is not a manifesto. This reveals the political views of the aggressor, who was born in China but immigrated “a few years ago” to the United States, the country that granted him citizenship.
The sheriff said it is believed that Chow, who lived in Taiwan, was “not well received” and that this developed his hatred of the public. Federal agents from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Weapons Police said Monday that the guard had legally obtained two semi-automatic pistols used in the shooting. The first in 2015 and the second in 2017. Due to the nature of his job, Chow is believed to have had a driver’s license that works exclusively in Nevada.
Hate crimes against Asians in the United States have soared in recent years amid a corovirus pandemic. A report published in early 2022, prepared by California State University at San Bernardino, indicates that this type of attack increased by 339% between 2020 and 2021. Asians are the second most affected, after African Americans, in a context where racist incidents increased by 11% nationwide. The cities where this discrimination is most prevalent are New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, which registered the highest number of such episodes last year.
Sunday’s incident briefly put an end to the tranquility of this middle-of-the-road oasis between Los Angeles and San Diego. Bonnie, 67, was taking photos with her cell phone this morning at the intersection of Sonora and El Toro streets, where the church is located. “It was a big change for our boring society,” he told reporters while waiting for the breaking news. Bonnie, a white neighbor, says she has several friends who come to this temple, where important congregations of Taiwanese and Korean descent gather. “Even if a life was lost, I think this is good news. “Whoever was there is a hero to me,” he added.
Dr. Cheng’s two sons were not at the temple to witness the heroic behavior. “It was literally a battle between good and evil,” Sheriff Barnes said. Monday afternoon, the doctor’s former neighbor went to arrange flowers in front of the office. “He was a very nice and thoughtful person,” Deborah Piper said with tears in her eyes. “It’s very unfortunate, but I’m not surprised at what he did. He always gave a lot to the community. “In the end I was saving my life,” added the 64-year-old.
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