Taiwan suspect in US school attack plot had 'unusual ideas'

 

March 30, 2018



TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — People who knew the 18-year-old Taiwanese exchange student charged in the U.S. with threatening to shoot up his school say he liked guns and flamethrowers and had dreams of a police career.

An Tso Sun, who has been jailed in the state of Pennsylvania, was "a child who really cares about things," said Cheng Wei-ting, a tutor who home-schooled Sun in Taiwan's capital, Taipei.

"He was an extremely simple and kind student, yet he would often have unusual ideas," Cheng said.

Sun idealized the famed Taiwanese-American forensics scientist Lee Chang-yu and wanted eventually...



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