A lone gunman opened fire during a charity event held by a temple in New Taipei City Wednesday, killing one and injuring 5 including the temple's chief and nephew of former lawmaker Lin Kuo-ching. The suspected gunman, the 20-year-old Chen Chi-lun, fired multiple times at Lin Li-tseng, the ex-lawmaker's nephew and the temple chief, from behind. According to the hospital that treated Lin, he was shot six times, including one in the back of his head from a short range. Bullets also hit a sixty-year-old woman and a seventy-year-old man while a woman in the midfifties was injured in the commotion, according to local media. A woman was also reportedly wounded by a stray bullet discharged when the gunman was firing into the air.

Source: The China Post September 20, 2017 09:33 UTC