Police in New Taipei City yesterday arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of shooting and killing the Vietnamese owner of a congee restaurant inside her shop in Taipei’s Beitou District (北投) on Saturday.
The suspect, surnamed Chou (周), was taken into custody after he was found sleeping at a temple near New Taipei City’s Linkou Power Plant at about 2:20am yesterday.
The weapon allegedly used in the murder was found in Chou’s apartment in New Taipei City’s Sanchong District (三重), police said.
Photo courtesy of Taipei City Police Department’s Beitou Precinct
Authorities were made aware of the shooting at 1:45pm on Saturday, after receiving reports that residents on Zhixing Road heard what sounded like an explosion coming from a congee restaurant in the neighborhood, the Taipei City Police Department’s Beitou Precinct said.
First responders found the shop’s 43-year-old owner, a woman surnamed Phan (潘), on the floor with a bullet wound in her chest, it said.
She was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital at 2pm, it said.
A preliminary investigation on Saturday identified Chou — a divorced man who had worked as a delivery driver and day laborer in Taipei — as a suspect.
Chou had begun pursuing Phan after visiting her restaurant as a customer, but had become resentful over suspicions that she was involved with someone else, police said.
On Saturday, Chou entered the shop and briefly spoke with Phan before drawing a gun and shooting her, police said.
After fleeing on his motorcycle, he abandoned the vehicle and took a taxi to the Linkou area, police said.
During questioning by police, Chou said he had committed the crime because of Phan’s “bad attitude” toward him when he visited her restaurant as a customer last month, police said.
He said he had received the gun from a now-deceased friend, police added.
Chou would be turned over to the Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office on suspicion of murder and contraventions of the Controlling Guns, Ammunition and Knives Act (槍砲彈藥刀械管制條例), police said.
Other aspects of the case, including Chou’s motive, the nature of his relationship with Phan and the source of his firearm, remain under investigation, police said.
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