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Taiwan Investigators Identify Suspect in Presidential Shooting

Mar 7, 2005 Hong Kong

Police in Taiwan say they have identified the "most likely" suspect in the attempted assassination of President Chen Shui-bian last year. But the man is dead, and Taiwan's opposition questions whether the truth behind the bizarre election eve shooting will ever be known.

Police say Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man in his 50s from the city of Tainan, "most likely" shot Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu on election eve on March 19 last year.

Ho You-yi, head of Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau, says the suspect's notes say he was depressed when Chen Shui-bian became president because the economy turned bad.

Mr. Ho told reporters that evidence linking the suspect, Chen Yi-hsiung, to the shooting included video footage from the scene, ballistics tests, and testimony from the dead man's wife that her husband had confessed to the shooting.

Mr. Ho said Chen Yi-hsiung's body was recovered from the Tainan harbor ten days after the shooting, and the death is a suspected suicide.

This article uses material from VOA.

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