Taiwanese among six killed in California
US authorities have confirmed that at least
one of the victims in a killing spree last week in California was a Taiwanese
student, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anna Kao (高安) said yesterday.
Representatives from the Taiwan Economic
and Cultural Exchange Office (TECRO) branch in Los Angeles
has “established direct contact with local authorities” and the University of California
at Santa Barbara
On Friday night, Elliot Rodger, 22,
allegedly stabbed to death his two roommates — Hong Cheng-yuan (洪晟元), also known as James, 20, and George Chen, 19 — and a visitor, Wang Weihan, 20,
from Fremont, California, in their apartment near the university campus.
Rodger then drove to the Alpha Phi sorority
house on campus and shot three women on the lawn.
Katherine Cooper, 22, and Veronika Weiss,
19 — both students at the university — were killed. The third women, as yet
unidentified, is being treated for multiple gunshot wounds.
Rodger drove on to a local deli, went
inside and shot and killed Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, 20.
He injured 13 more either with gunshots or
a car that he used as a battering ram against bicyclists and skateboarders.
The killing spree claimed seven lives,
including Rodger’s.
The Santa Barbara County Sherriff’s Office
said Rodger took his own life after the rampage.
Hong, who identified himself on Facebook as
having grown up in Taipei , had graduated from Lynbrook High School
in San Jose , California ,
the TECRO office in Los Angeles
The office is still seeking confirmation
with the university whether Chen was also Taiwanese.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/05/27 /2003591349
Structure of the lead :
WHO - a Taiwanese student
WHEN - not given
WHAT - The Taiwanese student was died in a killing spree.
WHY - not given
WHERE -
HOW - The suspect, Elliot Rodger, took the gun and drove the car to kill six people at random.
Keywords :
1. killing
spree (n.) 殺人魔
2. allegedly (adv.) 據傳說，據宣稱
3. stab (v.) 刺傷
4. lawn (n.) 草坪
5. unidentified (adv.) 未辨別出的；身分不明的
6. deli (n.) 熟食店
7. battering ram 撞車
8. claim (v.) 奪走
9. rampage (n.) 瘋狂的行為
There were many innocent people lost their lives in this horrible rampage. And one of the victims in a killing spree was a Taiwanese student.It was a totally unreasonable conduct.
回覆刪除In my opinion, this is very awful. Six Taiwanese students were killed in the killing spree. And still others injured in that incident. Because Elliot Rodger killed people at random, they became the innocent victims and died in California.
回覆刪除I think it was a terrible fact that the tragedy happened, a young man killed many people in school, because he thought that no girls like him.
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