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    Laguna Woods church shooting suspect charged with murder, attempted murder

    by Hannah Fry, Luke Money, Richard Winton and Anh Do, Los Angeles Times May 17, 2022 5 minutes
    A memorial honors John Cheng, a 52- year-old Laguna Niguel, California, resident who was killed in Sunday’ s shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods.

    LOS ANGELES — The Orange County district attorney filed a murder charge Tuesday that could carry the death penalty against a man accused of fatally shooting one man and wounding five other people at a Taiwanese church in what authorities have characterized as an apparent political hate crime.

    David Wenwei Chou, 68, of Las Vegas, is accused of shooting six people at the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, which rents space at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods.

    One of the victims — John Cheng, a 52-year-old doctor — died from his wounds. Five others, ranging in age from 66 to 92, were taken to hospitals.

    In addition to the murder charge, Chou faces five counts of attempted murder, as well as murder with the special circumstance of the use of a gun and lying in wait, District Attorney Todd Spitzer said. The

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