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Demovictory9

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Wed May 18, 2022, 09:15 AM May 2022

Suspect's life was collapsing before Laguna Woods church shooting



Between Orellana’s account and a declaration that Chou wrote as he tried to stave off eviction, a picture emerges of an embittered man whose world was collapsing around him. His critically ill wife had left him; he was unable to pay his rent, which was twice his monthly income; and he struggled to find work as a 68-year-old casino security guard.

For nine years, Chou and his wife, Crystal Juei-Hong Lee, owned the building they lived in, one of about a dozen shabby stucco four-plexes that line a cul-de-sac about a mile west of the Las Vegas Strip. They lived in a unit on the ground floor, Orellana said.

He described Chou as a considerate landlord: He never raised the rent in the five years that Orellana and his family lived there, and when the COVID-19 pandemic swept into Las Vegas, Chou often asked if they needed a break with the rent. He tended a small garden on the side of the building, and he’d regularly bring fruit, vegetables and cookies for Orellana’s family.

But he was “verbally aggressive” toward his wife, Orellana said, and he’d hear Chou yelling through the walls. By the time she left for Taiwan, diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, “you could tell she was just tired of him.” With her gone, “he took it pretty hard,” Orellana said.

Orange County Sheriff’s officials said Chou’s wife is living in Taiwan. Records of their separation weren’t immediately available.

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Chou’s family apparently was among many forcibly removed from mainland China to Taiwan sometime after 1948, Spitzer said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-17/months-before-laguna-woods-shooting-suspects-life-was-in-free-fall


claimed to have served in US marine, Marines can find no record of it.

sold building in 2021 and remained as tenant. new owner was in eviction procedings on him.
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Suspect's life was collapsing before Laguna Woods church shooting (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2022 OP
Thanks for posting, but no one cares about this shooting here on this forum. BlackSkimmer May 2022 #1
 

BlackSkimmer

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1. Thanks for posting, but no one cares about this shooting here on this forum.
Wed May 18, 2022, 11:13 AM
May 2022

Just as the parade massacre dropped out of the threads. Just as so many other mass murders barely get a word here.

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