Shooter bounced between security jobs, had license to carry a gun
A Las Vegas man who allegedly harbored a grudge against Taiwan and is accused of killing one person and shooting four others at a Taiwanese Presbyterian church gathering in Laguna Woods on Sunday bounced between security jobs where he was licensed to carry a firearm, records show.
David Wenwei Chou, 68, was employed as an armed security guard at five companies between 2014 and 2021, according to documents filed reached. with Nevada's Chou had passed a guard Private licensing exam and was Investigator slated to requalify with a Licensing firearm by October 31, documents show.
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A worker records indicate that from who answered 2011 to 2018, he owned a the phone Monday fourplex on Ala Drive, located at Vegas Plus Security and in a hardscrabble Event Staffing, where Chou neighborhood off the Las worked in 2019 serving Las Vegas Strip.
Vegas' bustling convention A woman, who lives next industry, declined to provide door to the apartment building her name and said she and declined to give her was unauthorized to discuss name told a Las Vegas Review-Journal his employment. Officials reporter that at the other four security Chou was a “grumpy,” landlord companies could not be who used to quarrel with tenants over parking spaces.
On Monday, a faded U.S. flag hung from the door of one of the vacant units Chou owned with “God Bless American Citizens” written on it. A strand of material was attached to the flag bearing Chou's name.
Chou is charged with killing Dr. John Cheng, a family practice and sportsmedicine specialist from Laguna Niguel, who tackled the suspect before being fatally shot. Four other members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church ranging in age from 66 to 92 years old were also shot but are expected to survive.
The shooting occurred at around 1:30 p.m. at a post-service lunch for the church, which shares the space at Geneva Presbyterian in Laguna Woods.
Chou pulled out a handgun during the lunch and started shooting at parishioners — who subdued Chou, taking away two guns that were registered to him, and tying him up with extension cords, according to law enforcement officials.
The suspect had driven on Saturday to Orange
County, and is believed to have targeted the church because it was the nearest gathering of people of Taiwanese ethnicity he could find, Orange County Sheriff's Don Barnes said Monday.
Detectives found evidence that Chou “was upset about political tensions between China and Taiwan,” he said.
Chou is in custody at the Orange County Intake Release Center on $1 million bail, jail records show. He is scheduled to appear in Central Jail Court for his arraignment on Tuesday.